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·Aug 2

In my day: 1993 The Internic Help Line to find your way to the Internet — Dial 1–800-…

YouTube recommended this 30 year old Computer Chronicles episode (I remember watching this series on PBS back in the day) to me today and was transported back to the days of Gopher, anonymous FTP logins, Mosaic (the first web browser), and more. I was fortunate to have had Internet…

Technology History

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Technology History

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·Jun 30

Google Pixel Tablet speaker dock loudness comparisons (in dBa)

Most Pixel Tablet reviewers commented on the speaker/charger dock’s sound quality and loudness. Opinions vary, of course. My ears aren’t “golden” enough to, in my opinion, provide a good description of the Pixel Tablet’s charger/speaker dock’s sound quality. And, it is, IMO, useless to try to assess the speaker quality…

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Google Pixel Tablet speaker dock loudness comparisons (in dBa)
Google Pixel Tablet speaker dock loudness comparisons (in dBa)

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·Apr 23

Thinking aloud: Can Bing/Bard help keep mainframes running?

Google is trying have its Bard LLM catch up with Microsoft Bing Copilot. On April 21, 2023, it announced Bard now helps you code. We’re launching these capabilities in more than 20 programming languages including C++, Go, Java, Javascript, Python and Typescript. And you can easily export Python code to…

Mainframe

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Thinking aloud: Can Bing/Bard help keep mainframes running?
Thinking aloud: Can Bing/Bard help keep mainframes running?
Mainframe

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·Apr 8

Microsoft Designer (preview) initial impressions: A step above Bing Creator and DALL-E for the casual creator

Microsoft Designer is a Large Language Model (LLM) image creation tool for, in my opinion, a casual creator — like me. …

Microsoft

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Microsoft Designer intial impressions: A step above Bing Creator and DALL-E for the casual creator
Microsoft Designer intial impressions: A step above Bing Creator and DALL-E for the casual creator
Microsoft

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·Mar 28

Apple Music Classical app: Initial impressions

At 1700 HST on March 27, 2023 I was surprised to be notified that the new Apple Music Classical app was ready to download since its launch date was announced earlier as March 28. My guess is that those of us who “pre-ordered” this free app got the early download.

Apple

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Apple Music Classical app: Initial impressions
Apple Music Classical app: Initial impressions
Apple

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·Mar 21

What can AI LLM ChatGPT-like chatbots in 2023 learn from 1993 SS7 Intelligent Networks?

Like many people, Jon Westfall, and some of our panelist-friends on the MobileViews podcast series have been discussing ChatGPT and other end-user accessible AI tools that have emerged since late 2022. As I read more and more opinion pieces about these Large Language Model/Generative AI-based tools, some of the predictions…

ChatGPT

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What can AI LLM ChatGPT-like chatbots in 2023 learn from 1993 SS7 Intelligent Networks?
What can AI LLM ChatGPT-like chatbots in 2023 learn from 1993 SS7 Intelligent Networks?
ChatGPT

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·Mar 11

Microsoft Lists (preview) now available in consumer Office 365 accounts

One of the, perhaps, odd things I missed after retiring at the end of 2022 was access to Microsoft Lists in my work Microsoft 365 account. I oftened referred to it as sane “SharePoint Lists”. You could get tremendous value from it in a no-code scenario. …

Microsoft Lists

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Microsoft Lists (preview) now available in consumer Office 365 accounts
Microsoft Lists (preview) now available in consumer Office 365 accounts
Microsoft Lists

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·Mar 11

Microsoft Edge as a Platform (MEP?)-The year 2000 MSN Companion’s descendant

After updating the only PC I have that can run Windows 11 (which only has an 18% adoption level 18 months after its release), the Microsoft Edge browser’s so-called “multitasking” sidebar brought something to mind that I couldn’t quite put a handle on… until… I found my ancient Compaq iPaq…

Microsoft Edge Browser

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Microsoft Edge as a Platform (MEP?)-The year 2000 MSN Companion’s descendant
Microsoft Edge as a Platform (MEP?)-The year 2000 MSN Companion’s descendant
Microsoft Edge Browser

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·Feb 22

Microsoft’s long, winding, and sometimes strange road from keyword to large language model (AI/GPT) chatbots

Having dabbled with AI-ish problems decades ago as a graduate student with simple models and notions coded using (mostly) LISP or Prolog, I found the sudden explosion of end-user accessible AI powered tools in late 2022 fascinating and promising. Reference: Will Microsoft Barney meet ChatGPT? …

AI

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Microsoft’s long, winding, and sometimes strange road from keyword to large language model (AI/GPT)…
Microsoft’s long, winding, and sometimes strange road from keyword to large language model (AI/GPT)…
AI

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·Feb 19

How to turn on Scribble (handwriting recognition) in OneNote for iPadOS — for those without superhuman vision

If you have an iPad and Apple Pencil, you may want to try the the recent Scribble (handwriting recognition) support Microsoft added to its OneNote for iPad app. …

Handwriting Recognition

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How to turn on Scribble (handwriting recognition) in OneNote for iPadOS — for those without…
How to turn on Scribble (handwriting recognition) in OneNote for iPadOS — for those without…
Handwriting Recognition

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