Tag: technology
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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…
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Say hello to my podcast player app
I’m building crap software left and right now! Feeling flush with success from building my own personal RSS feed builder I was compelled to build my own podcast app. Well… when I say build I mean Claude.ai built it while I told it what I want. It only took me a couple of weeks. I…