Celebrate Creativity

George Bartley
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This podcast is a deep dive into the world of creativity  - from Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman to understanding the use of basic AI principles in a fun and practical way.

  1. Drag and AI Graphics

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    Drag and AI Graphics

    Send us Fan Mail About two weeks ago, I apologized for not doing an episode for a month. Actually, I did not do an episode for two weeks, but it seemed like a month. I like to think that this episode has some very important uses and organizing your files and folders - how to organize a messy desktop rather than just demonstrate commands. And later, will get into the use of voice control into doing some fascinating graphics with artificial intelligence. So, - I am keeping this episode about half the length of the usual podcast episode in this series - so you would be more inclined to go back and listen to it twice or even three times. It is full of information that might be hard to assimilate the very first time, but I wanted to become second nature. Imagine that - like me - you have all kinds of files scattered around your MacIntosh desktop - some you probably should throw away, some have information that you would someday like to use, and some that you should definitely throw away. Oh one thing before we start-what you want to do is move a document on the desktop, but it is much easier in voice control to say drag a document. And I have a voice control turn off now, so my computer will not be doing all kinds of things when it thinks I'm issuing a command. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    14 мин.
  2. Enter THAT!

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    Enter THAT!

    Send us Fan Mail Do not say enter! Always say enter THAT! And emphasize the THAT! And for dictation, speak clearly and naturally. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    24 мин.
  3. Returning

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    Returning

    Send us Fan Mail Commands Wake up Go to sleep Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    37 мин.
  4. Turning It On!

    5 МАЯ

    Turning It On!

    Send us Fan Mail Hello, and welcome to Celebrate Creativity. I’m George Bartley. In the last few episodes, I have been talking about Voice Control in a broader way — my own background, some of the reasons I care about it, and some of the larger philosophical questions behind it. What does it mean to use your voice to deal with a machine? What does it mean in terms of independence, creativity, and accessibility? But now it is time to move a little closer to the ground. Today, I want to talk about something very practical: how Voice Control comes with every recent Macintosh, how you turn it on, and what you are actually looking at when you face those settings for the first time. Because that first encounter can be a little unnerving.  I remember the 1st time I saw voice control on the MacIntosh. I saw it as something just for disabled people and felt that voice control could not possibly do much that was useful. And I must admit, that I gave up after about 30 seconds, and said this is not for me. I had some erroneous idea that it was impossible. But all that needed a little time on my part. It's not that it was badly designed. But simply because it was new. And new things often look more complicated than they really are. You go into the settings and suddenly you are looking at terms like language, microphone, show hints, play sound when command is recognized, overlay, fade overlay after inactivity, fade after, fade by, and Voice Control tutorial. And if you are a first-time user, you may think: what in the world am I looking at? And to be honest, even if you don't fully understand some of the settings by the end of this episode, you're doing about right. It takes a while to get your bearings, but it certainly is worth it. So that is what I want to do today. I want to slow it all down. I want to describe what the user is seeing, what those items mean, and how to think about them without getting flustered. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    27 мин.
  5. Looking from Both Sides

    4 МАЯ

    Looking from Both Sides

    Send us Fan Mail Looking at Life from Both Sides Hello, and welcome to Celebrate Creativity. I’m George Bartley. And I promise that starting in the next episode, I'm going to begin to teach you how to use voice control. But today, I want to talk about accessibility, disability, voice control, and something even larger than all of those: what it means to look at life from more than one side. There is a phrase that has stayed with me for years from a song by Joni Mitchell: I’ve looked at life from both sides now. I am not quoting the whole song, and I do not need to. That one phrase is enough, because it expresses something I have thought about for a very long time. I have looked at disability from both sides now. I have lived as someone who works with people that have motor difficulties. And I have also lived as someone that many people would never assume had a disability unless I told them. I have looked at communication from both sides now. As someone who helped others communicate. And as someone who has known what it means to need a different kind of access to the world. I have looked at institutions from both sides now. From the hopeful side, where they want to help. And from the realistic side, where good intentions often collide with lived reality. And I think that matters. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    31 мин.
  6. What It Feels Like

    3 МАЯ

    What It Feels Like

    Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and the second part of Voice Control on the Macintosh: Why It Matters, and What It Feels Like to Learn It. I hope you realize by now that this podcast has been talking about the importance of voice control and some of the human elements involved in mastering the skills. So rest assured that in a few days, I will deal into the mechanics of voice control - in other words HOW use it. My philosophy of education it's not to try to dazzle you with information that might be hard to remember, but to carefully explain a concept. And then use tried and true educational concepts by going back and explaining that concept over and over in different ways - ways that help make that concept your own. In future episodes, I intend to talk about specific voice control commands, and even have imaginary visits from historical figures in the fields of computing and literature - individuals such as William Shakespeare, John Milton, Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, and the writer of the first computer program - Ada Lovelace.  But before you learn the actual information, I feel that you need to get the attitude towards learning and a different way of working down first. And that is the purpose of the previous and the following few episodes. Now let me come back to something I said earlier in a broader way: adaptation is not defeat. I think many people, when they first I'll say that I'd like for you to rest assured that in a few days I'm gonna deal with the mechanics of using voice control in other words and that certainly matters  find themselves needing a different way of working, feel that they are somehow moving backward. They may feel that because something old has become painful or difficult, they are losing ground. But another way to see it is that they are being asked to develop a new form of competence. And developing a new form of competence is not failure. It is growth. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    41 мин.
  7. Voice Control on the Mac

    2 МАЯ

    Voice Control on the Mac

    Send us Fan Mail Hello - welcome back to How to Talk to Your Mac.  And this is  part one of Voice Control on the Macintosh: Why It Matters, and What It Feels Like to Learn It - in this and the following episode I want to talk about the philosophy behind voice control, and then we'll get into the specifics in future episodes. However, first, I'd like to apologize for the weeks this month when I have been unable to do an episode. For the first time in years, I think I have had computer problems when things would just not go the way I wanted. But no, I have not become a victim of pod fade, a term used to refer to a podcaster that just stops putting out episodes without any intention of continuing. And it looks like I'm going to be jumping right back into the game. In fact, this podcast just hit over 33,000 downloads across the world. Celebrate Creativity has now has reached listeners in 121 countries and territories — Not surprisingly, the majority of the downloads are in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Finland, and Singapore. I decided to forgo the third promo in this series–it didn't really say anything new about voice control itself, and–instead say a few words about why the use of voice control matters is so important. And I hope that when you really get into this podcast, you just might find that you can't see yourself using a computer without voice control.  It may seem somewhat hard at first, but you just might find that voice control becomes natural, and the fastest and most efficient way of using a computer. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    28 мин.
  8. Voice Control - Promo Two

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    Voice Control - Promo Two

    Send us Fan Mail Now I believe I mentioned that at one time I was doing up to two and three podcasts episodes a day.  As a teenager I had a series of epileptic seizures, and was told that I should not swim - but after I started taking a new medication at that time - Depakote - my seizures became a thing of the past. And I'll talk about a little bit more about that later.  I also started interpreting for the deaf, especially Shakespearean plays. And when I realized that I could swim safely, I started swimming 2 miles three times a week. Of course at the time I thought all this was cool, but I never thought about the fact that my activities were devastating my hands and fingers. I realized recently that I needed to take a break and learn a brand new way of communicating with a computer.  I don't mean to say this was just a choice I made - I would wake up in the morning with agonizing pain. So I decided to take that break - for the sake of my hands and arms - and especially because I know that so much of the information regarding voice control requires me to try out the steps myself and see if they work. I would hate to have to go back and say this will work but this doesn't really work. I want get it right the first time or as much as I can!  I wanna be sure and give you information that you can depend on!With something like Voice Control, the difference between sounding informed and being trustworthy is often very small on the surface, but enormous in reality. I hope that you will see the delay not as wasted time at all and I   I would like to think that listeners are not looking for just glossy theory. They are looking for someone who has gone into the weeds, made mistakes, tried the steps, hit the snags, and come back with something dependable.Because what I what I am building here are not just a series of episodes. I would like to think that along with the information, I am building credibility. A listener can forgive: “This took me a while to figure out.” “I had to test this several times.” But it is much harder for a listener to forgive advice that sounds certain and then fails the moment they try it. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

    12 мин.
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This podcast is a deep dive into the world of creativity  - from Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman to understanding the use of basic AI principles in a fun and practical way.

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    George Bartley
  • Годы выхода
    2020 - 2026
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    © 2026 Celebrate Creativity
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