Posted on June 25th, 2024 by Joy Schwabach
It’s free to publish a book on Amazon, but what’s the catch? Turns out there isn’t any. Yet when I told an elderly woman about it, she was skeptical. She liked the idea of turning her novel into a paperback book, but balked when I told her that she would have to link her bank account to Amazon if she wanted royalties. “It sounds like a scam,” she said. It isn’t. It’s a familiar practice for anyone who uses online banking. Besides, Amazon couldn’t have gotten this big by scamming people. It sends over $520 million in royalties each year to over one million authors, according to Words Rated. To ease my friend’s worries, I offered to publish the book […]
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Posted on June 17th, 2024 by Joy Schwabach
I asked my diary: “Should I marry?” It answered me quickly with the pros and cons. What’s amazing is that it didn’t parrot my own words back to me. Instead, it offered interesting insights, delivered in its own style, inspired by the 38,000 words I wrote covering a four-year period. All I had to do was feed the diary into Google’s “NotebookLM.” NotebookLM is an artificially intelligent friend who absorbs everything you throw at it, then answers your questions based on what it learned. A YouTube tutorial called “How to Use NotebookLM,” by Tiago Forte describes the process step by step. Forte is a productivity expert with 263,000 subscribers. He writes copious notes on every book he reads, amassing a vast collection. Using NotebookLM, […]
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Posted on June 10th, 2024 by Joy Schwabach
The free Yuka app uncovers the dangerous ingredients lurking in foods and cosmetics. I wish it said “yuck” every time it gave a bad rating. Thanks to Yuka, I decided not to buy Mission’s “Carb Balance Whole Wheat Tortillas” ever again. Yuka gave it a dreadful score, with all the reasons outlined. It also suggested healthy alternatives, but best of all, it saves your searches and the ratings, with photos of the scanned products and their alternatives, along with other great info. To start, download and install the free app from the app store, then open it and tap its scan icon. Then scan a barcode. That’s how I found out that Olay’s “Complete Daily Moisturizer,” with sunscreen, which I’ve […]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2024 by Joy Schwabach
“Private Space” is coming to Android 15, the next version of the Android operating system. It gives you a secret compartment for all of your apps, photos, documents and more, similar to Samsung’s “Secure Folder.” I enrolled in the beta version of Android 15 to try it out. Setup was easy. To start using Private Space, I tapped the word “Private” at the bottom of my app list. Private Space is like having an extra phone. It includes separate versions of Chrome, Gmail, Photos, Camera, Files and the Play Store. You can add more apps directly to the private area. To test it, I typed up a list of passwords on my computer, then took a picture by tapping the […]
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