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  • iPad 2021 (6 months review)

    Last Autumn, I made myself a present and bought an iPad. The 2021 model which was on a very good and discounted price of £315. It seemed like a bargain back then. Six months later I have a good picture of how good or bad this product is and if I would buy it again.…

  • Internet is dead(?)

    Black mirror [1] prepared us for what would follow. And late 2022 was the beginning. Life won’t be the same from this point. Or it has changed a long time ago without us being able to realize it? It is November 2022 [2]. OpenAI introduces their new application called ChatGPT. The tech world, and not…

  • Cash is King

    The current state of the UK’s market is not the best. Quite the opposite. With high inflation, interest rates up by 2% or more, high house prices and rents and unemployment at the very lows, it is the perfect mix of disaster. Possible scenarios to unfold Numerous economic events may occur in an economy with…

  • Transforming the Economy and Shaping Our Future

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) and tools like ChatGPT are shaking up the economy, bringing loads of potential to boost productivity and efficiency. But this revolution also raises questions about job losses, a growing social divide, and what work will look like in the future. AI is changing the game across industries, with tools like ChatGPT automating…

  • The eternal battle: iPhone vs Android

    Over the last 4-5 years, I switched from Android to iOS. In the beginning, I had mixed feelings and, to be honest, I used to like Android so much that the iPhone didn’t feel that good. However, as I got used to it over the months and years, I recently got my second iPhone device…

  • Atob() and Unit8Array in simple words

    What is Atob() atob is a JavaScript function that stands for “ASCII to binary”. It’s used to convert a base64-encoded string into its original binary data. Base64 is a way of encoding binary data (such as images, audio, or PDFs) into ASCII characters, so that it can be easily transported over a network or stored…

  • Chat with AI (or AI on AI)

    Tell me a bit about the AI history. The history of AI can be traced back to the 1950s, when computer scientists and mathematicians first began to explore the idea of creating machines that could simulate human intelligence. One of the earliest pioneers in the field was Isaac Asimov, a science fiction author who wrote…

  • Print PDFs (multiple) from Excel with a press of a button

    On a previous article, dated 2 years ago, I explained how to automatically print to pdf a sheet, with a press of a button. This one is the part 2. It is a tutorial of “how to print multiple pdf files from populated tables” in excel, with the help of VBA. I wrote the code…

  • ProgeCAD 2020 is here and is the best version so far

    Due to my last job demands, I was searching for an alternative to AutoCAD that could do the same job. Between many different choices I had, one caught my eye. It was the ProgeCAD that I have written about before. As we were part of iCare, a help desk program from ProgeCAD, we could receive…