Category: Software
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Perspectives on a Twitter-Mastodon tweetup-tootup
A few weeks ago, a small handful of people got together in a coffee shop in Reading to enjoy some good coffee and talk about the state of social media and developments with social networks. The conversation was clearly focused…
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Creative magic with AI generative avatars
The advent of creating images where an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm does the heavy lifting in the actual creation process has evolved in leaps and bounds during 2022. Previously-niche names like DALLE-2 (and its creator OpenAI), Stable Diffusion and Midjourney…
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Next levels for AI-generated images
Look at these four images of some well-known people who have died in the past 30 years. They probably look familiar and I’d guess you will be able to easily identify all of them. Left to right from top: Princess…
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Mailbird is a good tool for email and calendar management
For more than twenty years, Microsoft Outlook has been the primary software tool I use for email and calendars on Windows PCs, for both business and personal uses. On New Year’s Day, I switched my personal email accounts to Mailbird,…
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The usefulness of single-journey data in a hybrid car
This week I drove into and out of central London, into the congestion charging zone, in my self-charging hybrid car for the first time this year. It’s about a 60-mile trip each way for me on the A4 and M4…