Category: Computers
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The Rise of AI in Content Generation: Will Spammers and Bots Become Smarter and Harder to Spot?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized various industries, from healthcare to finance and marketing. One domain where AI has made significant strides is content generation. AI-powered tools, like chatbots and language models, have become increasingly sophisticated in producing human-like text. However, this advancement raises concerns about the potential misuse of AI in generating spam and bot…
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Handiest of Handy Tools
This little screwdriver set is the best one I have ever had. Seriously. I needed to dissect a dead harddrive and needed a star shaped screwdriver. I could have gotten a just a set of those (for more money) but grabbed this set instead even though I already had the flat and the cross heads.…
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Looking to Buy Comics Online Try NewKadia.com
Buying Comics Whenever I have purchased comics online, I have always simply purchased from a small handful of online shops. Today I got a press release in my email about a shop that has apparently been in business for almost twenty years and is kind of local to me. Looks like they are strictly online,…
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Take Control of Your Digital Library with Epubor
Tired of DRM (digital rights management) controlling how and where you use the ebooks you have purchased with your own hard earned money? You need DRM removal software. Don’t get me wrong I love my Kindle. In fact I am on my second Kindle after upgrading from my Kindle Keyboard to a Paperwhite (I wanted that…
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Stay Away From Fields Data Recovery
Two months ago I had one of the worst things happen. A failed hard drive. One that contained my entire music collection and photos from the past 15 years. All gone. I searched the web for data recovery services and happened to do the online estimate at Field Data Recovery. I was called by them…
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Problems With Copies of Images Being Automatically Generated in WordPress
I have this problem that I just noticed, but it appears to have been going on for a few years now (you’ll see the screen grabs I have show files back in 2011). And it is happening on most, but not all, of my WordPress sites. Images are being mysteriously copied into a new upload…
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Tis the Season….Scam Season That Is
Got a text message today telling me I won a $1000 Target gift card. YAY (if it were real). First off I never entered a contest secondly I knew this had to be a scam. So first thing I did when I hit the office was Google the phone number it came from — 323-636-8891. First…
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Black Hat, Confusion & Integrity
Do you know what the term “black hat” means. Would you understand it if it were used in a footnote of an article you were reading? Most likely not. Black Hat is a hacker term for someone who violates computer security. I was recently appalled by an article about SEO tactics that were so incredibly…
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Protect Your PC Against Kitty Mishaps
Ever come home to find your cat on your PC? I don’t know why but mine have always been draw to it. Abby here always had to be on my lap or in this case on my laptop, whenever I worked on my computer. But cats walking across a keyboard can actually be dangerous. Not…
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I Gots Ideas in My Head
That’s right I gots ideas in my head and I want to get the out. Problem is they appear there while I am driving. And I always lose the idea / thought once I reach my destination. Sucks to be me. So I tried Dragon Dictation for my iPhone (see the last two days). I…
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Dragon Dictation iPhone/iPad App
Ok now I am really confused. I went to iTunes to leave a review and it told me I did not have the Dragon app on my phone. I just used it, or rather tried to use it, and could see it right there. So I removed it and reloaded it. It came back up…
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Dictation Software for iPhone
I just loaded Dragon Dictation on my iPhone. First of all, I thought Dragon was supposed to be the leader in speech to text technology, so why then does their app for the iPhone suck so bad? It would not pick up anything I said at first kept giving me an error message…try again. Again?…