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How An Internet Mob Almost Bought The US Constitution
The failed attempt by an Internet mob to buy the US Constitution might be my favorite story of the year. It’s a revenge story! It’s loaded with crypto weirdness! It features thousands of people banding together for giggles! It’s got ties to conspiracy theories and...
Big Patch Tuesday
Your computer will restart on Tuesday night, after getting a particularly large collection of updates for Windows and Office. Close any open programs or files but leave your...
Cross-Posting WordPress Posts To Facebook
This is more of a test post. Facebook has a feature in “Notes” intended to import blog posts into a Facebook stream. It’s terribly broken. My experience matches many other...
Bruceb Consulting Does Facebook
I’m starting to think this social networking stuff has a future, by gum. I’m joining the 21st century. Visit the official Bruceb Consulting Facebook page! Push the Like button!...
Disappearing Mapped Drives In Windows 7
Here’s a moderately geeky tip about how to fix a nagging problem when a mapped drive disappears during installation of a program from a shared folder on another computer on the...
Be Careful Setting Up Your Kindle Account!
Our online purchases and subscriptions and services are associated with accounts linked to an email address. Be careful when you set up accounts and make purchases! These are...
Expand The LastPass Toolbar
LastPass is the truly essential utility, a free tool to help you remember the passwords that fill our lives. Personally, I’ve got LastPass keeping track of a couple of hundred...
New Notebooks For The Holidays
Dell has released the Dell Vostro V130, pictured at left, a slightly updated version of the lovable, ultralight Vostro V13. A 13.3” screen, 3 1/2 pounds, vanishingly thin, and...
Search Tools In Outlook 2010
I keep finding new things to like about Outlook 2010, which got a major overhaul this year and now features the ribbon bars that appeared in the other Office programs in Office...
Holiday Shopping And Free Shipping With Amazon Prime
I love shopping at Amazon. What can I tell you? I’m high-tech but shallow. If you haven’t looked into the Amazon Prime program, now is the time to consider it, before you start...
R.I.P. Drive Extender
Drive Extender deserves another mention before it heads into the graveyard of failed technology. If you’ve been reading along, you know that Drive Extender was the promising...
Looking Forward: Small Business Server 2011 Essentials
Previously: The Future Of Small Office Technology History Lesson, Part 1: Small Business Server History Lesson, Part 2: Windows Home Server Looking Forward: Small Business Server...
Looking Forward: Small Business Server 2011 Standard
Previously: The Future Of Small Office Technology History Lesson, Part 1: Small Business Server History Lesson, Part 2: Windows Home Server Let’s see if we can keep the big...
Give A Kindle Book As A Gift
Just in time for the holidays, Amazon has made it easy to give a Kindle book as a gift. You can purchase a Kindle book and have it delivered to the email address associated with...
History Lesson, Part 2: Windows Home Server
Previously: The Future Of Small Office Technology History Lesson, Part 1: Small Business Server Some of Microsoft’s best technology has been overlooked for three years, hobbled...
History Lesson, Part 1: Small Business Server
Previously: The Future Of Small Office Technology It’s hard to remember how much of an impact Small Business Server had on small offices when Microsoft released the first version...