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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Bill Gaver's 1989 Demo of The SonicFinder™

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While digitizing my analog videotapes, I came across a short 1989 demo by Bill Gaver of his SonicFinder™, an interesting piece of early work...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Escaping from iCloud Photos

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After more than a decade storing photos and videos in iCloud, I decided to download my stuff to my PC and delete the copies at Apple. I figu...
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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Video File Metadata: First Thoughts

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A few years ago, I published a series on metadata in image files with a focus on old slides and photos that had been scanned. I've sinc...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Convertible EV Spot Check

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It's been more than two years since I last looked into the availability of all-electric convertibles , so I thought I'd do a quick c...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

The Dismal Failure of LLMs as EV Search Aids

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For six years, I've been in the market for an electric compact SUV. I haven't yet found one with the features I want at a price I...
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Monday, May 26, 2025

Three Experiences with Video and AI

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Finding an Old TV Episode I recently found myself wondering about a TV episode I saw decades ago. I had only the haziest memory of it, so I ...
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Anthropic's Claude Aces my German Grammar Checker Tests

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Yesterday I published the results of my latest testing of German grammar checking systems . Unlike my first round of tests, I included LLMs,...
Friday, July 19, 2024

German Grammar Checkers Revisited

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Update: I have since added Anthropic's Claude to my tested systems, and it outperformed every system I discuss below. Details here .  A ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

How a Bad Monitor Port Thwarted my Move to macOS

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In March, I decided to move from Windows to Mac. My goal was texting on the desktop, i.e., texting via my computer. Many people insist on te...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2024

Five Years of no EV for Me

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Five years ago this week my search for an electric compact SUV ended with me buying a conventional gas-powered car. I disliked the car (a Ni...
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Monday, May 20, 2024

German Grammar Checkers

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I can speak some German. I'll never be fluent, but I can usually get by. Sadly, I make a lot of grammatical errors. It'd be nice to...
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Scott Meyers is a retired expert on the C++ programming language. He wrote several notable books (e.g., Effective C++), and he delivered training and consulting services to clients worldwide.
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