No programming, free, and takes 10 minutes, tops — ChatGPT and other generative AI have made the vision we saw on Star Trek a reality — almost. On Star Trek, you could ask the computer nearly anything and it would pretty much figure it out and give you a correct answer. Today, we can ask ChatGPT almost anything and…

You.com was, apparently, there first. But is it as good? — Everyone’s talking about Bing having ChatGPT integration and, I have to admit, it is pretty impressive. But the people at You.com must be furious. They had an AI assistant with their fledgling search engine at the end of 2022. In fact…

Get more out of whatever ChatGPT you use — including Bing — It is true that AI has the power to change your work and personal life. But it is a good bet that most of your time is spent in one application: the browser. Sure, it might be Chrome, or Edge, Firefox, or something else, but you still spend most of…

Bring Bing Chat to your Windows, Mac, or Linux desktop I have to hand it to Microsoft. They are pushing people to use Bing and Edge by letting you use ChatGPT 4 for free and it is working. In fact, you could argue it is better than ChatGPT 4 without…

AI makes for a patient language tutor Learning a language can be frustrating. There are many phone apps that promise to teach you a language but, for the most part, they really just teach you words. That’s useful, but to be conversational, you really need something better. There’s no shortage…

Warning: changing your grade might require changing the US Constitution! — Have you ever had an instructor give you a C on a paper and later turn the grade into an A+? It happens and, in this case, the college in question didn’t even issue an A+. The professor gave the student one anyway and it might be the only A+…

A great product on Windows; But Needs Help on Linux — If you’ve ever used Chrome Remote Desktop with Windows and Android devices, it works great. All your computers are listed, performance is good, and it works well — at least, as well as you can expect if you are using a phone. But if you are using a laptop or…

Maybe you don’t use Activities because you can’t make them do what you want — In a previous Medium post, I talked about how to use a KDE activity to automatically launch a VirtualBox Windows image and pause it when you go to another activity. That’s a great way to use an activity, but there was one thing that bothered me: the way I did…

A few things you probably aren’t using in Konsole — If you are like me, you spend a lot of time in a terminal and for KDE users, that usually means Konsole. Here are a few features you might not know about, that can make your Konsole experience better. Profiles Sure, you know about profiles. That’s how you set the color…