Why Am I Playing With Ancient Cassette Tapes? For the same reason that I convert VHS to digital – for posterity and safekeeping. But this one is more personal because I found an audio cassette tape from 1976 with a brief conversation that my now-wife
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I was prompted to consider this when I realised that our TV remotes have microphones for issuing commands, a feature I haven’t tried yet and probably never will. It’s just as easy to simply press a button on the remote. I do, however, use speech-to-text
Virtual/digital assistants have been around for a while now, but with the advent of AI, they’ve become much more widespread and are generally known as AI assistants. But whatever name you give them, from a customer service point of view, they are complete trash! I
Who would have thought that your television set would spy on you? I use that old term ‘television set’ intentionally because back in ye olden days, they really were just dumb boxes of cathode ray tubes and capacitors. You also had an alien-looking aerial, a
Stowaway Do you love flying but hate the pre-flight and airport nonsense? With Stowaway, you can forget about all that and put yourself in a window seat right away. I tried it and put myself in the pilot’s seat, and there are numerous options for
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I’ve often sung the praises of Steam because of the many features it offers, but GOG goes one step further when it comes to offline play, DRM-free ownership, and classic game preservation. But one aspect of GOG I had never looked at is the offline
Following on from my recent article How To Dumb Down Your Tech Devices, in which I somehow omitted to mention the privacy issue, the other day I came across a BBC article, Security by Antiquity, which explores why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers.
First came smartphones, then smartwatches, then smart TVs, and now AI has taken over the ‘smart’ label, proving to be all-pervasive and invasive. I’ve noticed that many people are turning away from so-called smart devices (AI is another subject altogether), useful though many of them
When I discovered that I could get YouTube Premium for around $3 per month, I snapped it up right away. At the time, I didn’t realise that YouTube Music was included in the deal, so I cancelled my subscription to Spotify and now enjoy all
This is a follow-up to How To Manage Copyright Issues In YouTube, which reminded me that the copyright scene has spawned numerous copycat entities that act like ambulance chasers, scaring creators and website owners into parting with their hard-earned cash. My YouTube Channel Update At
Over the years, YouTube (YT) has become a behemoth, but it is also messed with by Google in ways that are not always to our liking. Change The Huge Video Thumbnails One of the biggest complaints lately is about the huge video thumbnails, which force
Recently I’ve been having trouble downloading more than half a dozen files from Google Photos, with the message ‘Preparing to download xx items…‘ remaining on the screen for ages. Eventually, a message pops up telling me that I’m trying to download too many items and
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I’ve been uploading videos to YouTube since 2007, when it wasn’t the beast that it is now. Copyright and other content restrictions were fairly lax back then, but over the years Google has enforced its rules on copyright very aggressively. For that reason, if we
Nvidia recently announced a product that could propel the company into the consumer CPU market – the RTX Spark – a supercomputer- grade processor that can run large AI models entirely locally. This is a 20-core ARM-based Nvidia Grace processor developed with MediaTek, featuring a
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