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Chatting With AI: Synthetic Empathy
A lot of people talk to their AI buddies as if they have little friends that live in their phones. It doesn’t come naturally to me. I’ve been using ChatGPT and Gemini as if they are amazing upgrades to Google search. It doesn’t occur to me to open my phone for a…
Microsoft Security Essentials Licensed For Small Business
Microsoft Security Essentials is simply the best security program currently available for Windows computers. Installing MSE is on the short list of chores that I insist on doing…
Postscript – Some Notes About Skype
Previously: Understanding Google Voice Fully Committed to Google Voice – Part 1 Google Voice Interlude – Background About Voice And Data Fully Committed to Google Voice – Part 2…
Fully Committed To Google Voice – Part 2
Previously: Understanding Google Voice Fully Committed to Google Voice – Part 1 Google Voice Interlude – Background About Voice And Data If you’ve been following along, you…
Google Voice Interlude – Background About Voice And Data
Previously: Understanding Google Voice Fully Committed to Google Voice – Part 1 Now things get really interesting. Well, they do to me, anyway. I’m odd. This is at best wildly…
Fully Committed To Google Voice – Part 1
Previously: Understanding Google Voice All of this started because I don’t have a reliable cell phone signal at my home office west of Sebastopol. Verizon coverage is erratic and…
Understanding Google Voice
Google Voice is a free service that gives you a phone number. When you dial my phone number, (707) 703-1601, you’re dialing a Google Voice number. Thanks to the Google Voice…
Google Instant Search
Google made a simple but profound change to the way that search results are delivered to you from the Google search page. It changes the world in a small but significant way. You…
Poisoned Web Sites
Almost all malware now is installed by poisoned web sites. If you haven’t installed the latest updates for Windows / Office / Internet Explorer / Firefox / Java / Flash / Acrobat…
Reconsidering Firefox
or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Google Chrome I am conservative about installing software. I don’t want programs on my computers unless I intend to use them. The…
Annoying Checkboxes
This week’s installment of Annoying Checkboxes is sponsored by Microsoft, which has already brought you the annoying checkbox to install the “Bing Toolbar” – the one that has to…
Details About Microsoft Online Services
Previously: Fear of Exchange Moving Mail Online With Microsoft Online Services Small businesses should strongly consider having their Outlook mailboxes hosted on Exchange Servers…
Weak Passwords
Previously: Passwords: computer login Passwords: e-mail Passwords: Google Accounts & Windows Live ID Passwords: password managers Passwords: online passwords and LastPass…
Moving Mail Online With Microsoft Online Services
It feels as if the smartphone revolution has happened overnight. I am simply astonished at the number of business people and lawyers getting iPhones from AT&T and Android…
Warren Berls
I’ll be taking a personal day on Wednesday, August 25, to help my dad celebrate his 90th birthday. My dad taught me to solder. Remember soldering irons? We’d use them to build…
Bruceb Consulting – Now With New Improved Monitoring
I am pleased to announced a new service for my loyal clients: real-time server and networking monitoring. This is the culmination of months of evaluation and testing. It…