Matt Hopkins Retired early but still writes about business, marketing, personal development and technology.
Like so many others, I have been blown away by the capability of chatGPT since its release in late November. There has been a lot of focus on content creation – articles, poetry, lyrics, stories, etc – but one of its most powerful features is the ability to drill down into its “understanding” of a […]
Email is ubiquitous. If I want access to email, I can simply sign up to an email provider like Gmail, Outlook, iCloud or hundreds of other email service providers. I can also set up my own email server. I can use a service provider’s email domain (e.g. @gmail.com) or buy a custom domain. And because […]
I’ve been using the Wordfence plugin on my site for about a year and I’m both impressed by it’s capabilities and shocked by the incredible number of hacking attempts on my site that it reports. This plugin really should be standard for any and all WordPress sites in my opinion. Core features First and foremost, […]
Social media platforms like Facebook are great places to share information with your friends and family. But sometimes, people over-share. They document every cup of coffee, every baby photo, every holiday snap and every opinion or mishap. Some of these posts are interesting to the rest of us, but sometimes they are simply a form […]
It is so easy to become overwhelmed by Twitter. Once you start following more than a 100 people the timeline can quickly become a fast flowing “fire hose” of information. Once you start following more than 500 you could spend all day trying to keep up to date and informed. I think a lot of […]
I don’t listen to the radio. I dislike radio advertising for both the interruption, volume increases, and the overall quality. I also don’t like DJ’s generally – with the possible exception of morning radio shows. I just want to listen to the music – perhaps with some news every now and then. I listen to my own […]
Yesterday, there was news that LinkedIn was hacked and six million passwords leaked on the internet. There were two main concerns for users: 1. Someone could log in to your LinkedIn account and make contact with your connections. LinkedIn is primarily a business network site and so the concern was with the potential damage […]
I posted back in February on how to schedule tweets and why. The main point was that if you read “shareable” content in batches, then you don’t want to overload your twitter stream and end up spamming your followers with loads of tweets in a short period of time. It is far better to spread these […]
There’s two parts to this post really – first, did you know that you can synchronize your iPhone/iPad photo stream with a Windows PC? and second, how to get the iCloud syncing it to work properly because it is sort of flaky to get set up. Also , don’t forget that you will need an […]
Have you noticed that there is no “View Source” in Safari? This is a feature that I frequently use in desktop browsers such as Chrome. Well, here’s a simple trick that quickly solves that. Viewing the source code of a web page in Safari on your iPad or iPhone requires the creation of a “bookmarklet”. […]