January 23, 2025
By: Todd Stabley
I’ve been doing a few updates at home, and as part of that ordered three pendant lights to replace the existing ones in the kitchen. When they arrived, I was disappointed to find that the part that attaches to the...
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January 10, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
I recently parted ways with YouTube TV due to its price increase and my family's lack of television use. One thing that my wife missed was watching Friends. Friends were recently put behind a paywall on services such as MAX,...
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January 3, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
Apple's "Image Playground" is aptly named. It seems more like a children's game than any sort of AI image generator. Not really sure of the purpose. It wouldn't let me paste a prompt into the interface and the amount of...
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January 2, 2025
By: Stephen Toback
I decided to take what I learned in migrating my band's website to html from the Squarespace platform and apply it to migration of my personal website. Here are some of the lessons learned that can hopefully help you as...
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October 23, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
Extraordinary technology. Workflow and pricing model still need work. I'm working with a researcher who has 1,000 videos in Urdu that he wants dubbed into English. I expected that ElevenLabs would be the right tool. In testing, it did a...
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October 14, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
One of the highlights of the Adobe Max keynote today was "Generative Extend". Ever needed just a bit more of a clip to transition or perhaps your talent didn't give you time to get out of the shot before they...
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September 4, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
I've tested a lot of these auto video creators in the last few months. Revid.ai just works. There is a free tier but because I used the best model for AI, I had to pay the introductory $39/month fee to...
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September 2, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
Playground.com allows you to select a design from their library or upload a design and then transform the text and images to your liking. I selected one of their logos to test first. I gave it the prompt: "Change the...
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August 5, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
Gamma is a tool that leverages AI to help you create presentations, documents or websites. I got quite a bit of use out of their free credits to do some testing. I found their process easy and the content, both...
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August 2, 2024
By: Stephen Toback
At SIGGRAPH 2024, Autodesk unveiled new AI-powered tools aimed at enhancing creative workflows for artists and producers. Key announcements include the Flow Generative Scheduling for efficient production planning and new AI capabilities in Maya and Flame. These innovations are designed...
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