A large part of the Web is not in English and luckily most web browsers have built-in translation tools. You may have found these by accident, most browsers either just translate the text automatically (Chrome for example) or will ask you (Edge and Firefox.) Safari users have to notice what looks like two speech bubbles on the right side of the URL where you can click and translate. Try https://olympics.com/fr/paris-2024 in your preferred browser to see how this works.
If you need an AI cheat sheet (we all do) there is a good one at https://www.theverge.com/24201441/ai-terminology-explained-humans that serves as a quick primer and dictionary for AI.
Both Android and iOS smartphones allow you to use alternate keyboards, like SwiftKey from Microsoft, Gboard from Google, and an interesting one, Typewise, that uses hexagonal shaped keys that purportedly help you type faster. For Grammarly users you should try out their smartphone keyboard to access their writing suggestions.
You can bring some silliness back onto your mac with little applications like BananaBin, https://bananabin.app/ or FuzzyTime, https://marcusolovsson.com/fuzzytime/. They aren’t productivity apps by any means but they make trash and time less sterile and precise.
Consumer Reports recently reported results from their study of people-search sites and how ineffective name removal services can be. The takeaway is that it is more effective to manually get yourself off each people-search site than to pay any of the automated services they tested.
Reminder from the past, make accounts for others on your computer so you can more safely share your device, especially if it is for those younger visitors who can’t seem to resist touching any computer. This can even be done on Android devices if they are running Android 9.0 or newer. Apple iPad/iPhone users are still out of luck, no support for multiple users there.
Mac users sometimes forget to actually close apps, just as in Windows 11 it is hard to see that little indicator on the Dock indicating an app is still open. By using MagicQuit, https://magicquit.com/, you can set how long apps in the background will stay open before they are closed down, unless you have unsaved documents or files open in a particular app.
What do https://roadway.report/beta and https://www.mygrandcanyonpark.com/park/history/grand-canyon-death-map/ have in common? They are examples of data mapping, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) that let you explore different layers of map or geographical data. You may have used GIS if you have looked up Buncombe County property information ag https://gis.buncombecounty.org/buncomap/ Check out their other maps at https://gis.buncombecounty.org/