AppleWorks 6

I know nothing of AppleWorks 6 or FileMaker Pro 7. However, I was spending time recently going through old digital photos and came across some pics of stuff I was decluttering when my Dad moved from independent living to assistant living back in 2018. I did the quickest of searches and find that AppleWorks 6 came out in 2000! My Dad really liked to hold onto any manual for any product he owned. You never know when it will come in handy.

Extracting text with manual steps

by Chris Rufe | Oct 30, 2025 | AI

So close, yet so far away? I feel a whiplash effect it seems when ChatGPT amazes me with some esoteric explanation (remember to verify boys and girls), but then gets hung up on what seems like the simplest thing. I was having a conversation with ChatGPT. I had...

AI Action plan, and stuff

AI, News

AI Action plan Here ya go folks - this is the current administration's AI Action Plan: https://www.ai.gov/action-plan Here are some words from the current administration about preventing "woke AI" in the federal government...

Subscribed to One Useful Thing

One Useful Thing is the name of Ethan Mollick's substack newsletter. Ethan is the Co-Director of the Wharton Generative AI Labs. Wharton Generative AI Labs has lots of good information including a prompt library: https://gail.wharton.upenn.edu/prompt-library/ Check...

“Accumulation of Cognitive Debt”

There's an article published at MIT that studied "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 This blog post was pitched as a rebuttal of sorts to the MIT study - definitely...

The upside of AI

Positive thoughts? I came across two older items last week that really made me feel good about Artificial Intelligence and some of the good aspects and possibilities. Like most people grounded in reality, the very impact of AI's disruption on the job front and...

That “aha!” moment – a simple image

I finally committed to the "Plus" ($20 a month) version of ChatGPT and have been finding more and more things to use it for, and trying my best not to use it as lazy google. Hum de dum and I'm looking at making an AI Policy for TQuist, as well as provide information...