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May 27, 2026 | Comment

In today’s fast changing AI world Apple is very much coming from behind with it’s products and services in this space. Apple now groups its on-device AI under the Apple Intelligence umbrella and includes things like Siri.

What is Apple Intelligence

Launched At the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024, Apple officially unveiled Apple Intelligence. This marked a shift toward “personal intelligence” – AI that (supposedly) understands your personal context (emails, calendar, messages) while maintaining strict privacy. This included:

  • Privacy-First Architecture: Apple introduced Private Cloud Compute, a system that uses Apple silicon servers to handle complex requests without storing user
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Text Expansion with Alfred

June 25, 2019 | Comment

I’ve had my MacBook Air for over five years now and by and large it is still performing pretty well. Certainly better after that time than any Windows machines I’ve had in the past would have done.

Just recently, though, I’d been having a performance problem which led me to do a root and branch check of my machine (turned out it was the Sophos Home Virus scanner). As part of this I stumbled upon the fact that Alfred can do text expansion and this left me to wonder whether it was worth having two programs sat in the background … Read the rest