Tag: technology
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AI and AI Agents May Be the First True Internet Native “Being”
For more than two decades, Google search defined how we used the Web. Today, AI and AI agents are like Google on performance-enhancing drugs. In the days of the old Web (almost literally yesterday), Google helped you find what you were looking for. It gave you pages of links, ads, and filler you had to…
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My Phones Beat My 12-Year-Old PC: I Still Can’t Do One Simple Thing
I have a Pixel 11 Pro and a Pixel 11. Both have more raw computing power than the 12-year-old PC sitting under my desk. That PC drives two monitors easily. Neither of my phones can. And after a week of trying every workaround I could find, I’ve learned that nobody makes the hardware or software…
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Who Wrote This? Me or AI?
I use AI to help write this blog. Oooooo. That’s a huge no no these days. I can already hear the Luddite trolls screaming, “That’s not writing!” “That’s AI slop!” Cool your jets folks and let’s look at what “help” means. Just the other day I worked with Claude to turn a rambling stream of…
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Google Just Gave Me a Personal Buy One, Get One Free Deal on the Pixel 11 and Pixel 11 Pro
I keep two phones, particularly when I travel abroad. I don’t want my main phone to break and then find myself scrambling to buy a new one in a foreign country. So I travel with two. For the last couple of years, my main phone has been a Pixel 9 Pro and my backup has…
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RIP JCD
On Wednesday I learned that columnist and podcaster John C. Dvorak, a person that I’ve been following since I was a teenager, died on Monday, July 20, 2026. I started reading his columns in PC Magazine back in the 1980s and more recently started listening to him on the DH Unplugged and No Agenda podcasts.…
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I’m building podcast tools like mad!
First a Podcast RSS Feed Creator/Editor, then a podcast player app, so why not complete the podcast toolset loop and create a transcriber and a chapter creator! Done! You know you were asking for it. Well, at least I was. And, now with how good AI has gotten with turning my ramblings into working products…