It has some issues, but I can live with them — Am I really so lazy that I can’t plug in my phone to get CarPlay? Did I truly need this not exactly cheap gadget added to all my other first-world toys? Wireless CarPlay Adapter for iPhone,2022 Newest Wireless Apple CarPlay Dongle for OEM Factory… Buy Wireless CarPlay Adapter for iPhone,2022 Newest Wireless Apple CarPlay Dongle for OEM Factory CarPlay Cars,Built-in…www.amazon.com

We may have to see an AI counselor — Although the Ecobee and I had some issues when we first met, I feel that we have had a good relationship. However, when I asked for my first monthly report of her performance, she whined and complained that she couldn’t do that because I apparently have been using other cooling…

Which is strange because I like it a lot on my iPad — I didn’t expect to like Stage Manager on my iPad, but it turned out that I do, and I am using it frequently. Stage Manager on the 11-Inch M1 iPad is Actually Useful Which surprised me and perhaps will surprise youmedium.com On the other side, I did expect to like Stage Manager on my Mac, but I do not. I was initially quite puzzled by this, but it…

Which surprised me and perhaps will surprise you — Skip this paragraph if you already know what Stage Manager is. If not, it’s an iPadOS 16 feature that allows resizable, overlapping, and moveable window groups for apps. Up to four windows can be in a group, and there can be four groups. In the screenshot below, only one of…

Nothing I have read or heard has quite envisioned this — I listen to a number of tech related podcasts, so of course many have talked about self-driving cars and the changes these could bring to our daily lives. One point often made is that this would free up a lot of parking lots, which I suppose is good news to…

It’s all intelligence — Recently, a Google employee made the claim that an AI project was sentient. This was greeted by jeering and disgust by most, even those with no background whatsoever in the field. The major argument against his claim is that the AI only knows what it has been told; it only…

This may not be quite as wonderful as Apple painted it — Apple announced that its part of the FIDO/W3C alliance will be ready in IOS 16. That alliance, nine years old as I write this, was formed to “help reduce the world’s over-reliance on passwords”. Google was among the founders, Microsoft joined in 2015, and Apple signed on in 2020. Italicized…

But I’m not ready to try the betas quite yet — The first thing I thought of when Apple demonstrated Stage Manager at this year’s WWDC was “This will be available on iPad too!” and it was. My second thought was, “It’s like Tab Groups for everything!” And then my third thought was, “Wait! Why am I excited about this, and…

Advantages and disses — We already had a camera that points at our front porch, but because it needs to plug in, it peeks out through a window at a sharp angle and doesn’t get a good view. It’s good enough to alert us of someone coming to the porch, yet it annoys us…