August 27, 2023

💬 Some fun with Comic Life 3 and AI images 🖼

I previously wrote of my adventures and amusement with Comic Life 3. I’ve also discussed toying around with AI image generator. So, what happens when you combine the two? Is it possible to make comics using AI image generation and the correct prompts? Simple answer is yes. The idea came from my kids who brought up Halloween where one wanted to be a zombie character. The other asked why not Spider-Man? Even though there is Venom, the answer was a simple, Spider-Man isn’t scary. Zombies are fun and scary. Spider-Man isn’t a zombie. But, could he be? Could you stretch the bounds for Halloween? I went to the AI generator to run a couple prompts through the processor. This set the wheels of imagination turning. The first result was basically a green Spider-Man, which was kinda cool, but not a zombie by any means. However, it was a bit Green Goblin-esque, maybe Riddler inspired, which sparked a story idea. After […]

August 20, 2023

👨‍💻 A deeper look at MWeb Pro

Since I was referencing MWeb, and listed it as my tool of choice for Markdown, I thought it would be good to list some of its features. If you’re heavy into Markdown, and using a Mac, this is a serious tool to get. MWeb is a full-featured word processor that handles long documents or short notes. I’ve made the comment before, it’s similar to Ulysses, but without the huge subscription fees. At the $20, one-time fee, it’s a powerful editor at a very reasonable price. The first feature to look at is MWeb’s Library. It’s similar to Scrivener’s binder, allowing you to have multiple folders with multiple documents inside. You can organize further with nested folders. This lets you make categories, then subcategories, and additional subcategories inside of those. Mimic a folder structure, web site headings, or class topics so you know where everything is. This is pretty much a standard for Mac, so it’s not a big deal to […]

August 13, 2023

📝 A quick Markdown roundup

Since my compadres at work have brought Macs into their lives, they were asking about note taking apps, and which worked with Markdown. Ironically, in the Mac space, pretty much every editor supports Markdown. There are so many it can be a little overwhelming. I originally wasn’t on board the Markdown train, I didn’t see the point since it came across as a subset of HTML. I am not a fan of HTML and its 1990 style Wordperfect tags. But, I’ve been schooled and now see Markdown is much easier to understand and use. It’s also in dozens of other web based apps like Jira, GitHub, Slack, WordPress, etc. Oddly, Microsoft doesn’t seem to be on board with Markdown. The number of Markdown editors for Windows? In the days of yore, you would write a document in Microsoft Word (which is a horror unto itself) or the archaic tags of HTML, then run it through a converter or hope the […]

August 6, 2023

💻 Using AI for Content Creation

People are absolutely wetting themselves over the concept of AI content creation with AI-powered tools revolutionizing the way we write. The idea of being able to fill a blog with dozens of articles per day or to have students generate papers with just a few keystrokes is all the rage, and fear. Now you can procrastinate until 5 minutes before the deadline, bash out some ideas, then poof, AI saves the day. Pretty sure that’s not the reality, so I decided to try it out and run a bit of an experiment. I had AI generate a few articles to see what it made. First, I wrote out a list of topics in an outline. I fed that list into the AI and asked it to use a couple of different styles and tones. The generated content was interesting, and not too bad. It wasn’t amazing, but it wasn’t terrible. It was certainly readable, but it wasn’t something turn in […]

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