Category: Random Tech Tips
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How to increase memory available to VOSviewer on Windows
I've been poking at VOSviewer while helping a student figure out whether it'll be helpful for a bibliographic analysis project, and I was stymied by running out of memory when attempting to work with a large dataset. The manual (PDF) unhelpfully addresses this issue with a whole section: But there is no VOSviewer.jar file to…
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Launching ChatGPT Voice Chat on an iPhone 12 with back-tap
In today's issue of Ethan Mollick's One Useful Thing, I learned that the iPhone 15 has a unique button I hadn't paid any attention to – the action button. He mentioned how the action button can be used to launch a voice chat with ChatGPT, and I found instructions at TechCrunch. But I only have…
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llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer
I lifted the title directly from Simon Willison’s post: llamafile is the new best way to run a LLM on your own computer, even though I don’t have the expertise to know if it’s the BEST way. I can tell you it’s a damn easy way, even on Windows! Simon’s explanation works on a mac,…
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Link wherever you want (YMMV)
Quite some time ago, I used a browser extension called TLDRify that allowed me to highlight some text on a web page, and it would create a link I could share that would jump a person directly to the text I had highlighted. It was a way to both create an anchor link when one…
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Clipchamp – a VERY cool screencasting option!
The other day, Lifehacker posted that Windows Has a New Tool for Simultaneously Recording Your Screen and Webcam. That tool is Clipchamp, and I am impressed! Oh, and it's free. MPOW has blocked the Microsoft Store, so I wasn't able to install the desktop version, but I was able to run the web version. I…
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AI, Images, and Academic Titles
Yesterday, shortly after helping a student start a literature search, I found myself poking around at DALL-E, one of the crop of machine-learning tools that can generate images based on a text prompt. I had an article title saved on my clipboard, and wondered what would be generated from the title. I was not impressed.…
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Why you should pay attention to your Creative Commons licenses
I have never given a second thought to ensuring I've chosen the correct/most recent version of a creative commons license. That's changed, because I just finished reading Cory Doctorow's post, A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator. In it, he outlines the emergence of the Copyleft troll, someone…
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Shasta vs. Descript
It's a premature title, as I don't actually have access to Project Shasta yet, but this announcement makes it sound very similar to Descript: Adobe’s Project Shasta is an AI-powered, web-based audio editor. I have requested access, though, and will report back when I know more! 🙂