At the end of October, some of you who follow this blog by email started reporting to me […]
Category Archive: Language
What’s the harm in using a tool to apply ‘styles’ to plain Unicode text in a tweet, or similar?
Utility to convert text files between different code pages and formats now runs native on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.
How to analyse text in any combination of 8 major languages into parts of speech, and make word frequency counts, all for free.
How to hide text so that it can’t be searched or analysed, and how file naming almost brought APFS down.
This linguistic analysis tool uses macOS to identify languages, parse them into grammatical types, even analyse word frequencies.
Why should anyone still want to work with email messages in text? Here’s why, and how you can benefit too.
Details of how to get different news feeds from each part of this blog, and how to find information from its over 5,000 articles.
A few months ago, we all felt that we lived in uncertain times, but I suspect none of […]
The fine line between precision and obscurity examined in the Finder, against Apple’s Style Guide, and its accuracy. And what does HD stand for?
