There are so many class action lawsuits that you need to be careful when you get an email or text letting you know that you too can be part of the next great payout. A good place to check whether you might be part of a scam is https://classaction.org or https://consumer-action.org/ Just make sure you don’t share any more information than you have to.
When you have had health care denied, you can and should appeal. If this is daunting, check out https://fighthealthinsurance.com/ to see how AI may help you generate a more effective appeal. It is amazing what one wronged person will create to help others get what is rightfully due them.
Google Meet users, those with Google Workspace accounts with certain add-ons, should try enabling Gemini during a Meet session. This new feature, called “Take notes for me,” will do just that and lets you dispense with being distracted by having to take notes and summarizing decisions. This may be another good use of AI.
Public Service Announcement: don’t rely on googling company support phone numbers, find the company site and track down their support number there. It may be more work but at least it will be a correct phone number.
So many book recommendation sites link straight to Amazon when all you want to do it find a title at your local public library or on Libby. Enter https://www.libraryextension.com/ that will search your local library for whether a title is available and even lets you place holds right there. This extension is installable in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox browsers on Windows or macOS, not yet for Android or iOS.
Knock-offs of designer furniture sure are cheaper, and if you like the look but not the price try https://dupe.com/ to find copies of high-end furniture and such. Think a minute or two about whether the artist or designer has already been justly compensated and then go ahead and search.
Chrome users should check their extensions to find out if any may soon be dropped. Google will soon change what some extensions can do or have access. Go to chrome://extensions/ in Chrome to see if anything has yet been disabled. Click on the details button for each installed extension to see if there are any alerts about pending issues. And, come back to this each month or so. Google keeps promising they will kill certain extensions but has been slower in actually doing so.
Former WordStar users can finally use it again, don’t ask why we also like stick-shifts. https://sfwriter.com/blog/?p=5806 is where you can read more about this effort, and how to download and install it under modern Windows. You may find that it is quicker than even most simple text editors.
Keeping free of copy-righted images is a good thing but searching for them is often painful. Try the https://public.work/ service to search images from the MET, New York Public Library and others. Public domain works don’t require you to even seek permission to use them, different from royalty-free images that you might find at https://gettyimages.com that you still need to license for use.