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It’s Official - We’re Expanding
Our occasional collaborator and co-host Dr. Nadine Robinson is now formally working with the Smartypants team to help communicators and adminstrative staff make safe and...
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The Battle of the Bots…And Best Tools for Transcripts
All of the major tech players are releasing every more powerful A.I. tools. While many freelancers just want a reliable way to create transcripts from recordings.
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AI in Everyday Life - Part 1 of 5
The first of five two-hour sessions about AI in Everyday Life. Discussions, demostrations, relevant videos and video clips, documents and some very recent news about the world...
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An Overview of AI in Everyday Life for SCANS (Senior Collage Association of Nova Scotia)
AI seems like it just arrived, when in fact it's pretty much everywhere. This hour-long overview was a pre-amble to a 10-hour course that went far and wide to find real-world...
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An A.I. Presentation for a local Rotary Club
The Halifax Harbour Rotary Club asked for a 15-minute presentation about A.I. and its impact on businesses.
Continue ReadingAliant/CloudMark EMail issue - RESOLVED - UPDATED 2020-10-29
UPDATE 2020-11-17
Both Aliant and CloudMark have continued to ignore our repeated requests to provide any valid reason for why they blocked all mail from our server for almost a week...
Continue ReadingSSL & Google Chrome “Not Secure” Warnings
Google announced some time ago that their Chrome web browser would begin showing a \"Not Secure\" notice in the address bar, when viewing any site that doesn't use an encrypted,...
Continue ReadingGMail Filters Flagging Legitimate EMails as “Dangerous”
For more than six months now, since Novembe 2019, GMail has repeatedly been blocking legitimate EMails from us, and consistently ignoring all of our requests that they fix the issue....
Continue ReadingGoogle Knowingly Distributing Malware AGAIN - 7 days (and counting)
In the past, we've written about a previous incident where we noticed malicious files that were being hosted on Google drive, and distributed via links in spam EMails (unsurprisingly...
Continue ReadingWrong Website and/or Company
If you've been sent to this page, it's because you sent us a message intended for a different company - most likely Smarty Plus or Smarty Pants Vitamins.
We have NO relationship with...
Continue ReadingUpdate on Spam-Support Website(s) Hosted by Namecheap.com
Back in November of 2017, we wrote about the provider NameCheap.com - and the difficultly we had encountered in getting them to do anything about a website that they hosted, which we...
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