Here’s how to translate a website into your language using Google Translate. It is a bit fiddlier on phones because of the restricted size of the device. But this is pretty straightforward for first-time users. Copy the website’s address by tapping it once. The website’s address is the ‘URL’. It is in the box above …
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I’m questioning Google’s decision to provide AI text answers through their chat bot, Bard, in a revamp of their search engine results. I’ll tell you why. If I am right, I think Google is being unfair and they may damage the Internet. Current status When you use Google today, you ask Google to find answers …
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chat bot interface online. It is basically and instant message (IM) conversation with a computer run by AI. You can ask the computer all kinds of questions and it will provide you with its best answer immediately. The answers are compact, concise and well written in English. I have …
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Please don’t use ad blocker software in any form as ads are a lifeline for millions of websites. Particularly ‘independent’ websites by which I mean sites owned by individuals like me. There are millions of these sites providing some really great and educational information. Like me they provide it free of charge. The owners only …
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Amazon Smile raised $500 million for charities elected by customers over its lifetime of 10 years. A small percentage of the sale price was given to charity by Amazon. It did not increase the sale price of the goods purchased. Amazon say that the charity was spread too thinly, “[the] program has not grown to …
Amazon are terminating Amazon Smile, their charitable donation program. The reason why. Read More »
Here are 22 different smiling cat with heart-eyes emojis. The heart-eyes emoji expresses extreme love of something said or seen. I guess it is the emoji of choice for a cat lover who wants to say they really like something that they have seen on the internet or in a communication. They are in the …
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Introduction The article discusses more than the definition of copyright. A definition is a summary and more than that is appropriate in this instance. This article relates primarily to internet works; words and images. Over the course of the development of the Internet, the concept of copyright with respect to images has changed in my …
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This is a strange world. Even the words are strange. A parallel universe inhabited by people no older than 20 on planet Zog. Perhaps 25. Everyone on the planet never grows old. They spend their time creating Twitter ascii images and memes and take great delight in the task. It is the world of ascii …
The question I’m most often asked about my writing for PoC is ‘how do you handle writing about cruelty?’ My answer to that is two-fold. One is I try to speed through topics that need covering then get away from them as quickly as possible. I also find a lot of uplifting news as I …
It may be useful for people to understand how I choose the content for articles on PoC. This short post explains things. My options for deciding the subject matter of articles is limited. To a certain extent it is dictated by circumstance. This is because there are around 12,000 pages on PoC and ancillary sites …
Just a quick note to explain why PoC was offline for about 12 hours. It had nothing to do with me. The hosting company, Hostgator, had network problems which affected probably thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of other websites. Hostgator is based in Houston, USA as I recall but they probably have facilities in other …
Why are cats so popular on the internet? The answer to this oft asked question is provided by Alexis Ohanian who is the 32-year-old co-founder of Reddit which is a major social media website receiving over 200 million visits per month. Alexis Ohanian is a cat person, a “proud cat dad” and he’s smart. All …
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My short commentary on this. Yahoo Answers is not bad. There is some good advice on the site. Both these questions seem to have omitted a reference to the word ‘cat’. It is fun to surmise what was in the mind of the person posing the question. In the first question, it is conceivable that …
People from which country visit PoC? The chart below answers the question and informs us that the USA is completely dominant in respect of the domestic cat “marketplace”. There is far more total interest in the domestic cat in America than any other country. I would expect that the interest per person is the same …
Everybody who uses Facebook could just as easily use Google+. But they don’t – well, some do but… Facebook is still dominant. Google+, “is so far behind, how can it possibly catch up?”. These are the words of Mr Chris Messina, a Silicon Valley developer who was recruited in 2010 to work on Google’s social …
