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Saturday, April 22, 2023

How to Use Google Maps to Find Gas Stations and Gas Prices

Gas prices are always on the rise, and it can be hard to find the best deal.

But with Google Maps, you can easily find the cheapest gas stations near you.

So next time you're looking for gas, don't forget to use Google Maps.

Open Google Maps
Tap Gas under the search bar (or enter Gas or Fuel in the search box).

Google Maps Gas Search

You’ll see nearby gas stations and prices on the map and at the bottom of the screen.

Google Maps Gas Stations

Tap the name of the gas station to see more about the station including specific prices for various grades of gasoline.

Google Maps Gas Prices Search Results

That's it!

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Friday, April 21, 2023

How to Fidget with Style

Do you love fidget spinners?

Do you wish you could play with them anytime, anywhere?

Do you want to experience a new level of fidgeting fun?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you need to check out this Cool Tip.

FFFFidget.com is a virtual fidget spinner that you can access from your browser.

It's a simple and elegant website that lets you spin a colorful shape with your mouse or touch screen.

You can control the speed and direction of the spin, and watch the colors change as you fidget.

So what are you waiting for?

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Thursday, April 20, 2023

How to Change the Wake Word for Amazon's Voice Assistant - Alexa

Have you ever wondered if you could change the wake word for your Alexa-enabled device?

Perhaps you're tired of hearing "Alexa" all the time?

While "Alexa" is a popular wake word, some users may prefer to use a different name or word that's easier to pronounce or remember.

Additionally, if you have multiple Alexa-enabled devices in your home, using the same wake word for all of them can cause confusion and trigger unintended responses.

How to change the wake word for your Alexa-enabled device, follow these steps:

Open the Alexa app on your smartphone or tablet.
Tap on the menu icon
Select Settings from the drop-down menu.
Scroll down and select Device Settings.
Choose the device you want to change the wake word for.
Select the Device settings icon
Tap on Wake Word.

Alexa Wake Word Setting

Select the new wake word you want to use from the list of options (Amazon offers "Alexa”, “Amazon”, Computer”, “ Echo," and "Ziggy" as wake word options).
Confirm the new wake word by saying it out loud when prompted by the app.

And that's it!

Your device will now respond to the new wake word you've chosen.

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023

How to Use Gmail Search Operators to Find Your Emails

Do you need to find all of your Gmail messages older than a year?

Or maybe you remember the email you want is within the past year.

Or maybe just a few months ago.

Perhaps you want to review them.

Or even remove them to clear up space in your Gmail account.

Here's a Cool Tip: Use these special search operators to find them.

Here's how:

Go to gmail.com
To find email messages older than or newer than 1 year.
Click in the search bar

Enter older_than:1y or newer_than:1y

Note: You can also enter other search words after the older_than:1y operator.

For example, older_than:1y Google or newer_than:1y Google
This will return emails older (or newer) than 1 year that contain the word Google.

Pro Cool Tips:

Change the 1 to any number to go even further back for older_than:1y or newer with newer_than:1y.
Change the y to m to look at months instead of years
And you can change the y to d to look at days instead of years

But wait, there's more!

Click the search setting icon to the right of the search box to bring up even more advanced search options.

Just enter your advanced search criteria and click Search.

And finally, Gmail has many other search operators you can use to find your important emails.

Check them out!

What you can search by	Search operator & example
Specify the sender	`from:` Example: `from:amy`
Specify a recipient	`to:` Example: `to:david`
Specify a recipient who received a copy	`cc:` `bcc:` Example: `cc:david`
Words in the subject line	`subject:` Example: `subject:dinner`
Messages that match multiple terms	`OR` or `{ }` Example: `from:amy OR from:david` Example: `{from:amy from:david}`
Remove messages from your results	`-` Example: `dinner -movie`
Find messages with words near each other. Use the number to say how many words apart the words can be Add quotes to find messages in which the word you put first stays first.	`AROUND` Example: `holiday AROUND 10 vacation` Example: `"secret AROUND 25 birthday"`
Messages that have a certain label	`label:` Example: `label:friends`
Messages that have an attachment	`has:attachment` Example: `has:attachment`
Messages that have a Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, or Slides attachment or link	`has:drive` `has:document` `has:spreadsheet` `has:presentation` Example: `has:drive`
Messages that have a YouTube video	`has:youtube` Example: `has:youtube`
Messages from a mailing list	`list:` Example: `list:info@example.com`
Attachments with a certain name or file type	`filename:` Example: `filename:pdf` Example: `filename:homework.txt`
Search for an exact word or phrase	`" "` Example: `"dinner and movie tonight"`
Group multiple search terms together	`( )` Example: `subject:(dinner movie)`
Messages in any folder, including Spam and Trash	`in:anywhere` Example: `in:anywhere movie`
Search for messages that are marked as important	`is:important` `label:important` Example: `is:important`
Starred, snoozed, unread, or read messages	`is:starred` `is:snoozed` `is:unread` `is:read` Example: `is:read is:starred`
Messages that include an icon of a certain color	`has:yellow-star` `has:blue-info` Example: `has:purple-star`
Recipients in the cc or bcc field	`cc:` `bcc:` Example: `cc:david` Note: You can't find messages that you received on bcc.
Search for messages sent during a certain time period	`after:` `before:` `older:` `newer:` Example: `after:2004/04/16` Example: `after:04/16/2004` Example: `before:2004/04/18` Example: `before:04/18/2004`
Search for messages older or newer than a time period using d (day), m (month), and y (year)	`older_than:` `newer_than:` Example: `newer_than:2d`
Search by email for delivered messages	`deliveredto:` Example: `deliveredto:username@gmail.com`
Messages in a certain category	`category:primary category:social category:promotions category:updates category:forums category:reservations category:purchases` Example: category:updates
Messages larger than a certain size in bytes	`size:` Example: `size:1000000`
Messages larger or smaller than a certain size in bytes	`larger:` `smaller:` Example: `larger:10M`
Results that match a word exactly	`+` Example: `+unicorn`
Messages with a certain message-id header	`Rfc822msgid:` Example: `rfc822msgid:200503292@example.com`
Messages that have or don't have a label	`has:userlabels` `has:nouserlabels` Example: `has:nouserlabels` Note: Labels are only added to a message, and not an entire conversation.

Note: When using numbers as part of your query, a space or a dash (-) will separate a number while a dot (.) will be a decimal. For example, 01.2047-100 is considered 2 numbers: 01.2047 and 100.

Source: Gmail.com

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Tuesday, April 18, 2023

The Wine Rookie Plays a Wine Guessing Game with ChatGPT

What happens when a wine connoisseur meets ChatGPT?

They play a wine guessing game, of course.

Noted wine expert Paul, The Wine Rookie, recently did just that.

Paul told ChatGPT that he wanted to a play a wine guessing game.

The object of the game was for ChatGPT to identify the wine just by Paul's tasting notes.

How do you think this turned out?

Let's watch.

Source: The Wine Rookie

Paul gave ChatGPT his tasting notes that included telling it that the wine was red, with ruby near the edges, had notes of red plums, cherries, strawberries, hibiscus, licorice, leather and no oak at all.

Paul also told ChatGPT that the wine had aromas of black tea, cream, cocoa and fresh ground rainbow pepper.

ChatGPT took an initial guess of a Pinot Noir.

But Paul then told ChatGPT that it was not a Pinot Noir.

ChatGPT then correctly guessed the wine as a Syrah and Grenache blend.

Score one for ChatGPT.

This is certainly an interesting use of AI.

The Wine Rookie plans to do more wine-rated ChatGPT videos.

Check out The Wine Rookie's site. You can also find him on Facebook The Wine Rookie.

Enjoy!

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Monday, April 17, 2023

How AI is Changing the Way We Work: An Example for Bing Chat AI, Excel and Data Analysis

As AI, in all of its forms, becomes more prevalent, we will all find practical examples to use these powerful tools in our professional and personal lives.

But is it all just hyperbole?

A modern day "fluff" PR stunt to promote a brand and make someone rich before it all crashes and burns?

Maybe, it's too soon to tell.

But let's look at an example with AI that's available today with Microsoft Bing Chat.

As a reminder, Bing Chat uses ChatGPT to power its AI feature.

In this case, a beginning Excel user is tasked with performing data analysis on sales data for the previous year, by quarter and by region.

Let's see what Bing Chat can do.

I asked Bing Chat to review the sales data table and provide the Microsoft Excel formulas for meaningful results.

fig. 1 Bing Chat Request for Sales Analysis

Bing Chat returned the following:

fig. 2 Bing Sales Analysis Results

Not too bad.

The formulas worked to add additional content for Totals, Averages, Minimums, Maximums and Quarter over Quarter Percentages.

Following the formula examples provided by Bing Chat, I added the formulas and the Excel table now shows these results.

fig. 3 Excel Sales Data updated to Bing Chat AI examples.

Can more be done?

AI is designed to allow users to engage in conversations.

I asked Bing Chat for more examples.

fig. 4 Bing

The results provided more analysis that could be added to the data table, including Percentage of Total Sales, Year-to-date Sales, Quarter-over-quarter change, and Year-over-year change.

In this simple example, a user could get a good start on their work assignment.

A more experienced Excel user would knows these capabilities and how to use them in Excel.

But this is a good example of what is possible.

And playing further with this example would bring more depth to the analysis.

AI is improving and it will play a greater role in our professional and personal lives.

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Sunday, April 16, 2023

In Case You Missed It - Cool Tech Tips for the Week 4/16/23

We had a great week of Cool Tips here at www.OneCoolTip.com.

These Cool Tips include how to attach documents inside the message in Microsoft Outlook, how to set Siri's Pause length to improve access, a warning from the FBI about public USB charging, how to create a QR code in Google Chrome, a staggering beauty website for Friday Funday, how to name Chrome Windows and how to group Chrome tabs for improve productivity.

Check them all out!

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Monday, April 10, 2023

How to Attach Documents to Microsoft Outlook Messages Inside the Message

Do you struggle with attaching documents to your Outlook messages? Learn how to attach as well as embed your messages in Microsoft Outlook.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

How to Set Siri's Pause Length

Looking to get more out of your Siri experience? Learn how to improve your Siri with this setting.

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023

FBI Warns Against Using Public USB Charging Stations

Did you use free USB charging ports when you are out in public?

Check out this FBI warning.

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