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Apple HomeView

October 14th, 2026 · No Comments

I’ve been meaning to write up something on the “new” Apple Siri AI as I’ve been testing it on my iPad. Well testing, in that I tried some extremely simple things that it couldn’t do at all so I gave up. I mean it was worse than using the “old” Siri (pre AI version). I […]

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AI: Garbage In, Garbage Out

July 6th, 2026 · No Comments

Everyone in tech has used the phrase “Garbage In, Garbage Out” at one time or another. It’s the notion that if your programs use garbage input as their source of truth, you are going to get garbage out. Meaning incorrect results that users are expecting or think are correct. I see an even bigger problem […]

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YouTube adds more parental controls, including a way to block teens from watching Shorts

January 14th, 2026 · No Comments

This is great and all but now do I have to add a parent to my own account to get rid of these shorts? Can’t Youtube give us an option to hide shorts altogether from anywhere and everywhere?

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TechnoMagician was taken

October 28th, 2025 · No Comments

I guess TechnoMagician was taken so Elon had to settle for Technoking.

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Another Reason Not To Trust Google

August 30th, 2023 · No Comments

Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links

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Apple Vision Pro

June 5th, 2023 · No Comments

Or as Apple is calling it the first spatial computing platform. I agree with Apple in saying this is likely a revolutionary product. Remember this day in history. Facebook and Zuck have spent billions and have barely moved the needle in the AR/VR space. But that is no surprise I guess.

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100% Uptime For Slack is 100% False

January 5th, 2021 · No Comments

So, Slack claims they have 100% uptime even though they had a major outage yesterday. Because they were never honest with this uptime claim in the first place they try to give a reason why its likely better than one would think by making some claim that its “an average derived from the number of […]

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mmhmm videochat software is now available to all for Mac | TechCrunch

November 12th, 2020 · No Comments

Its been ages since I’ve refused to use an app just because of its name but we have a new contender today for worst named app. Am I the only one that is that annoyed by the name of some software that I won’t use it just because of that?? Marketing FAIL!! Source: mmhmm videochat […]

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Short Form Video Service Quibi Shutting Down – MacRumors

October 27th, 2020 · No Comments

My prediction the first day this service was announced is that it will go nowhere. Today is the day it is gone!! Source: Short Form Video Service Quibi Shutting Down – MacRumors

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Five Useful Features We’d Like to See Added to iPadOS – MacRumors

October 9th, 2020 · No Comments

Absolutely agree with this list especially multi-user capability. It is absolutely ridiculous that Apple has not implemented that on iPad as of yet. Source: Five Useful Features We’d Like to See Added to iPadOS – MacRumors

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