Last week’s CrowdStrike outage is pretty concerning. It’s shocking how a mistake by one software company can shut down so many global industries. While I understand that antivirus software is necessary, its existence always represents a vulnerability. It has to embed itself deep in the system…
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Brett Terpstra’s Conductor
I’m a little late with this one, but I wanted to congratulate my friend Brett Terpstra on the release of Conductor. This new command line utility is an add-on for Brett’s successful Marked app. As the name implies, this utility acts as a train conductor…
Continue reading →MacWhisper 8 Improvements
MacWhisper has been updated to version 8 with some new features, including a video player. Multiple apps use the Whisper model to perform transcription. I bought a license for MacWhisper early, and I’ve been using it a lot ever since. One example: We use a…
Continue reading →BBEdit 15 is Here
The folks at Bare Bones Software just announced a big upgrade to their ubiquitous text editor, BBEdit. It’s got too many features to mention, but here are a few that jumped at me: A new AI-driven document type called ChatGPT Worksheets, which lets you interact with ChatGPT…
Continue reading →The Vision Pro Software Question
One of the bigger questions around the looming release of the Vision Pro is software. Specifically, will there be any, and will it be any good? We don’t know yet. We’ve seen some offerings from Apple and some limited offerings from third parties, but…
Continue reading →MacWhisper 3.0
MacWhisper, the app that uses an AI Large Language Model to create transcripts, just got its third major update. Improvements include: New full transcript mode Podcast mode, which can transcribe a podcast by adding the audio files for each host. System App transcription. Record…
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