In early 2023, the purchase of Evernote was completed by Bending Spoons https://bendingspoons.com/ an Italian tech company focused on AI with several products shown on its website, but strangely Evernote is not shown as one of its products. Bending Spoons seems more focused on video editing, AI powered photo enhancement, and personal fitness apps as […]
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AirTags, released in 2021 by Apple are very useful devices for keeping up with our stuff, keys, computer bags, bikes, luggage and more. These small tags (about the size of a quarter) have about a year’s battery life and paired with a newer iPhone and IOS 14.5 or higher can help us retrieve lost or
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Has You Been Hacked? (from MacWorld, July 2023). Most Mac users feel that their computers are generally free from malware and virus that seem to attack users in the PC world, but they are not totally safe. Attackers can get in to steal your data or destroy files. With the protections offered by
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Download Data from Apple Thanks to Gary at www.macmost.com for this insight. Consider subscribing to his channel or supporting through Patreon. I learned that Apple has a special website where you can download your data. Go to www.privacy.apple.com and log in with your Apple credentials. Here you can find out a number of things such
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Ten alternatives to ChatGPT https://youtu.be/yOQ9cljJ5jE https://www.you-tldr.com this summarizes YouTube videos. You can also ask it to summarize the summary with just the key points. gptminus1.com this will take text from ChatGPT and randomly replace words with synonyms so that if someone checks it, the text does not appear to be generated by AI.
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Apple iPhone and Security Editor note: These suggestions should be viewed with caution and care. Note any new codes you create and put them in a safe place. Also make notes of the steps you take/took while implementing these. BACK UP your devices first. The topic of losing or having your phone in the hands
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Tips to Make ChatGPT Work Harder for You As we begin to experiment with this new AI tech for the masses, we begin to see a potential that can help us. Responses cover a wide range of topics from poems, code, philosophy and more. To get what you want you’ll need to improve your
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Finally progress is being made to have Google home products communicate with Home Pod. Google, Apple and Amazon have agreed upon a new communication standard, Matter. It will take a while for new devices to offer this cross connection software. In the meantime, new Home Pods can detect certain sounds like smoke alarms, dog
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By now you have been reading about and probably tried the AI (artificial intelligence) products, Chat GPT, Bard and a host of others. Google and Microsoft have jumped into the fray and offer their own flavors of this new technology. Connecting to the websites that host these apps will connect you to powerful computers that
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Here’s are some more recent improvements to MacOS, iPadOS and IOS Thanks to subscriber, James H. Lee, Jr., President, Tropical Software, Inc. for these useful comments. Visit his website to see his offerings. jim@tropic4.comhttp://www.tropic4.com — Home of TopXNotes, the ultimate personal note manager, for Mac and iOS, the ultimate personal note manager, 2Remember, Kitchen Timer and now iAddressX for Mac.
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