BRUCEB NEWS
Working Remotely: Splashtop Tips For Dual Monitors & Blurry Displays
A lot of you are working remotely, connecting to an office computer from a home computer or laptop. Here are some tips that can improve that experience - setting your office computer not to go to sleep, two tips for dual monitors, and a way to improve a blurry...
MSN SEARCH
If you use MSN’s web search for “linux windows,” it returns sixteen web pages with both those words on them. Try it! If you use Google for the same search, it returns almost nine...
GRAPHICS PROGRAMS
I wrote up some notes about programs for editing and organizing images on this page - comparing Adobe Photoshop Elements with Microsoft Digital Image Pro. Fascinating, insightful...
STRANGE PICTURES
Internet site of the day - somebody with too much free time making really strange pictures of animals.
FREE WINDOWS DOODADS
Microsoft has free "Winter Fun Packs" available for download. Greeting card templates, screen savers, effects for Movie Maker 2, visualizations for Media Player 9. Whee.
OUTLOOK 2003 AND SPAM
(I hate to jinx anything by mentioning it, but the spam filter in Outlook 2003 is catching 98% of my spam. And there's been close to zero false positives. I spent about a week...
NEW MEMORY DEVICE
Engineers at Princeton University and Hewlett Packard have come up with a combination of cheap materials that might result in a very small card capable of storing far more data...
iTUNES ECONOMICS
The Register's article today helps us understand the online music services. Apple's iTunes store charges 99 cents per song. Apple claims it is the most popular of several...
WINDOWS XP KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Everybody can use at least a few keyboard shortcuts. Here's a chart that summarizes all the Windows keyboard tricks. Many people know about CTRL-C, X & V for cut/copy/paste,...
RIAA DOUBLETHINK
The recording industry filed 80 more federal lawsuits around the country Thursday against people using file sharing programs. Here's a wire service article about the lawsuits....
PHISHING IS FOUL
"Phishing" is a new buzzword for an old scam. Crooks are sending e-mails posing as legitimate businesses asking users for personal information - passwords, account numbers,...
MICROSOFT OFFICE 2003 STUDENT EDITION
Microsoft Office 2003 has arrived in the stores. The "Basic Edition" includes Word, Excel, and Outlook. The "Standard Edition" adds Powerpoint. There's increasing interest in...
DELL MP3 PLAYER
Dell will be unveiling its MP3 player and online music service tomorrow, in another direct shot at Apple's iPod and iTunes. Like the iPod, the Dell Digital Jukebox is a high...
MESSENGER SERVICE POPUPS
You may get ads popping up on your screen through the “Messenger Service” built in to Windows. It is a rarely used service that probably should have been disabled by default. Now...
BROADCAST FLAGS AND THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION
The FCC is preparing to move forward with regulations to support the embedding of a "broadcast flag" to encrypt digital television signals. This is a complex issue but it may...
SKYPE
The buzz is rising to deafening levels for Skype, new software for making telephone calls over the Internet. It's a new project from the Swedes who invented Kazaa, and in the...