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

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.

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…

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. …

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…

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? …

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. …

In the early 1980s, printers had ink ribbons and tiny wires that created dot matrix output on pin-fed fan-fold paper. For me, printing documents was something done using a UNIX-based mini-computer (nroff/troff) or a mainframe (I can’t recall what document formatting software I used on the mainframe). …

I tested Adobe Podcast beta using audio recordings of podcasts recorded indoor and outdoors. You can hear these two A-B tests in two MobileViews mini podcasts: MobileViews mini-podcast 33: Testing Adobe Podcast beta — noise reduction & speech enhancement A/B comparison MobileViews mini-podcast 34: Using Adobe Podcast beta to enhance audio recorded outdoors?