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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 ReadingFreelancing 2.0 - Embrace the Errors of Your Ways
Can you imagine a baby going from crawling, to walking, to running without a single stumble or fall? Sounds ridiculous, because it is.
Yet we seem to think that somehow we can avoid...
Continue ReadingFreelancing 2.0 - How to Buy (The Right) Technology in 6 Easy Steps
Have you ever bought technology - a new laptop, mobile phone, software, gaming console - only to develop a serious case of buyer's remorse once you took it out of the box and fired it...
Continue ReadingFreelancing 2.0 - Why I Did Everything So I Don’t Have To Do Everything
Many of the freelancers I know - and I've come to know a lot of them over the years - try to do too much of everything. They might be writers, but they also want to do their own books,...
Continue ReadingLogoJeeves.com Spam
While the majority of spam EMail today originates "overseas" (from the context of North Americans, at least), there is still a substantial amount of "grey-area spam from...
Continue Reading7 Reasons Why Buying a New Mobile Phone Sucks
I've used mobile devices for a very long time: from steno-pad-and-pen to a 26-pound luggable computer, from the Palm Pilot to an iPad, from a Motorola bag phone to an iPhone. During...
Continue ReadingHurricane Arthur Just Left - Here's What We Learned
The wind was rising on Friday night when we went to bed, and was a roaring monster by dawn when we lost power. The top of one of our poplars broke off and smashed part of a...
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