Author Archives: Steve

Birth

Fortunately or unfortunately it seems to me that birth is the most significant moment of your life. I don’t want to say that after that it’s all downhill or uphill but it’s going to be a little different than that moment of birth. Continue reading →

Internet Domain Notes

Want to know a little bit about Internet domains? Here are some searches and websites…

Discussion of internet domain concepts. Discussion of internet domain concerns. Discussion of internet domain topics. Discuss what I need to know about internet domains. Discuss internet domains.

List of Accredited Registrars by ICANN itself.

TDL-LIST – Compare Prices of All Top-Level Domains.

Whois – Interesting tables. Interesting site.

tlds – Good, quick, dirty list of registrars and costs.

AI Websites

AI Websites

Product Hunt – https://www.producthunt.com/ – Alternative products.

The email used was the researcher’s name @ ARH – Another Researcher 12/03/1990
– maybe uses A4M?

Why do people do things?

Scholary – https://www.scholarcy.com/ – The Best, The Very Best? No. Too specific to a paper,

ChatGPT – https://chatgpt.com/ | Auto login… Good.

scite_ – https://scite.ai/ – Very Good – Mandatory for serious research @ $20.

ChatPDF – https://www.chatpdf.com/ | Very Good. GREAT! Limit 2 PDFs per day.

Flawlessly – https://flawlessly.ai/app | Free AI Grammar Checker. Very Good ?

Ask AI – https://iask.ai/ | Very Good & Possibly Very, Very Good. Wonderful at answering questions. Great at bullet points with files.

Intercom – https://www.intercom.com/ | Requires email. 14 day trial with no credit card.

Perplexity – https://www.perplexity.ai/ | Good. Very good analysis of a pdf.

Brave – https://search.brave.com/ | Good. No PDF.

koma.ai – https://komo.ai/ | Good

felo.ai – https://felo.ai/ | Good

Andi – https://andisearch.com/ | Not recommended.

Monica,im – https://monica.im/ | Auto login… Very Good. Needs more research. Stopped after one use.

Ninja’s AI – https://myninja.ai/ | BAD! Very Good at responding to basic questions until you give them your email and then they quit responding after a sentence or two with the prompt about going premium. Sign-up required to upload files. Free accounts can “do 10 tasks per day, utilize writing & online research, code generation, and Basic Image Generation.” Plans start @ $5 a month and include: “Unlimited daily tasks, File upload analysis, Custom image settings, Access up to 20 leading AI models inlcuding OpenAI GPT-4o; Anthropic Claude 3.5; Google Gemini Pro; and many more.” $$ to analyze any files.

Microsoft Copilot – https://copilot.microsoft.com/ Sparse

Getliner – https://getliner.com/ | Absolute NO!

Claude.ai – https://claude.ai/ – Requires phone number.

Gemini – https://gemini.google.com/app/ | Sparse

Character.ai – https://character.ai/ – Weird

Knowt – https://knowt.com/ai-pdf-summarizer – ???

Wondershare – https://pdf.wondershare.com/ – downloads a file without asking or prompting.

Docalysis – https://docalysis.com/files/hkvy – Uses ChatGPT.

AXN.AI – https://axn.ai/home – ??? Doesn’t appear to be great…

Phind – https://www.phind.com/ | Very good. No uploads?

Copy.ai – https://www.copy.ai/ | Absolute NO!

AnonChatGPT – https://anonchatgpt.com/ – Not Good

Writesonic – https://writesonic.com/ | Weird

Skimit – https://www.skimit.ai/ – Email any article link to: go@SkimIt.ai and We’ll email you back a summary of the article within ~10 mins.

QuillBot: Your complete writing solution

Getdigest – https://getdigest.com/ – didn’t work very well at all.

notta.ai – https://www.notta.ai/ – audio and video to text.

Work Done

Question: What were some of the major European salons hosted by women which played a significant role in fostering intellectual discourse during the 16th and 17th centuries? ChatGPT answered.

Internet Walking Tours

This post is about Walking Tours on the Internet. Are walking tours actually better than being there? Well, no. But, there’s no question that they are certainly a great substitute in an era of COVID-19. At the present time I’m not willing to travel. Given my age I think it best that I stay at home for a while until this issue with the current pandemic loses a little steam. This post outlines some really nice walking tours and where to find them.

Prowalk Tours: Great place to see what locations around the world have walking tours.

 

Kindle Unlimited Summary Publishers

These are publishers that provide Kindle Unlimited summaries of significant books (and some not-so-significant ones).

See Also:   Best Sellers in Book Notes & New Releases in Book Notes

Acesprint (1000+) | FastReader Publishing (0) | Chapter Zoom (267) | High Speed Reads (321) | Intensive Life Publishing (62) | CTPrint (4) | Best Book Briefings (88) | The Mindset Warrior (137) | Key Notes (12) | Speedy Books | ExecutiveGrowth Summaries | FastReads | EssentialInsight Summaries | Goodbook | Dean’s Library |  FastDigest-Summary | Summary Genie | Nosco Publishing | RockyHouse Publishing | Concise Reading | Busy Reader | BreakfastBookClub | SUMOREADS | Vivid Read Summaries | Dependable Publishing | The Growth Digest | Scorpio Digital Press | KEVIN V HALEY | Epicread | Knowledge Tree | Concise Reading | Cosmic Publications | Go BOOKS | Genius Reads | Ninja Reads | Robin Homer | Executive Reads | Synopsis Reads | AscentPrint |

Whole Home Wi-Fi

This is a post to help me keep track of the information I researched as I was looking to make my home WiFi faster. I can get 350 mB at the end of an ethernet cable but I live in an older two-story house with thick walls. I can get 20-30 mB on my laptop with wi-fi but sometimes I have thinkorswim open along with a charting package and a few other pieces of software including a wamp server and, sometimes, I long for a little bit more throughput.

The top mesh WiFi systems with link to Amazon

TP-Link Deco m5: YouTube Video. 8,001 views•Jan 23, 2020. Time: 07:38. Good video.

Do NOT buy ANY Dual Band Mesh Router: This is an Amazon review. I think you should read it.

TP-Link deco M5 Whole Home Wi-Fi Setup: YouTube Video. 162,968 views. May 20, 2017. Time: 22:06.

TP-Link Deco M9 Plus Unboxing and Upgrading Existing Deco Setup: YouTube Video. 23,856 views. Aug 6, 2019. Time: 10:53. This is an upgrade video of an M5 system to an M9 system..

The ugly truth about eero from someone with corporate network experience…: You should read this. I did and then I checked the eero website after reading the reviews and I found there there is no “contact us” phone number anywhere to be found. I did however find the support line phone number on Google and I found they had a pre-sales department as well when I called it. I thought pre-sales was a thing of the past for most of computer hardware. So I called their tech support and it took xx minutes to answer.

The Best Mesh WiFi Systems For Every Scenario YouTube video. 386,517 views. May 7, 2019.Time: 07:59. A little dated at a year. A Year and it’s possibly outdated? That shows you how fast this technology is moving. This is a good intro video.

Best Wifi Router 2019: YouTube video. 459,338 views. Dec 15, 2019.Time: 09:28. Nice review. Gives some objectives I was looking for such as performance from various locations for the primary device and secondary devices and, especially, performance when on different floors of the house.

VPN Research

This post lists some articles about VPNs that can help in deciding which VPN to choose and which features to use. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is not your best friend. VPN is an acronym for Virtual Private Network.

A VPN can protect your online privacy. But there’s a catch: This article is about the US House of Representatives voting, in 1917, to kill Federal Communications Commission rules that kept Internet Service providers from selling user data. User data means where you went on the internet, what you did there and how long you were there. The “catch” they are referring to is whether the provider of the VPN is reputable.

What Your ISP Can Learn About You & How to Protect Yourself: Updated on 9th June 2020 by the author. Excellent Post. The very best way to keep your ISP from saving everything they can find out about you (a lot) is to do end-to-end encryption, a process that is also called tunneling. As of right now the best way to provide tunneling is to use a very reputable VPN. The post has a list of “reputable” VPNs. It also has a list of what information your ISP can store about you. A very scary list if your behavior is anything  less moral and ethical than the behavior of Jesus Christ and you know what they did to him. I currently qualify this as a must-read post.