Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs, painting, and more
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • M1 & M2 Macs
  • Mac Problems
  • Mac articles
  • Art
  • Macs
  • Painting

Category Archive: Language

An A to Z of keys and keyboards: Keyboard layouts

If macOS doesn’t include your preferred keyboard layout, here’s how to create your own, and put it to work.

December 12, 2022 Language, Macs, Technology

Inside Live Text

Full details on which languages and apps are supported, and an explanation of how it works its magic.

June 1, 2022 Language, Macs, Technology

Read Japanese using Live Text and Translation

Using Live Text to recognise kanji characters in a screenshot, then translating them from Japanese to English. Does it work?

May 21, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Interested in words and language? Nalaprop 1.1 might help

Parse text into parts of speech, or simply recognise their language or script. Analyse the frequency of words in a text, with an option to do this by word roots (lemmas).

May 5, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Colour Notes: Introduction, what we see

T T Read More

What do paintings look like to someone with deuteranopia? Why do great paintings ‘draw’ the eye? Do we see the colours the artist intended? And how many words for blue are in Ukrainian?

April 14, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

The Last 7 Years on My Mac: an anniversary

T T Read More

This blog started publishing on Saturday 17 January 2015, seven years ago. Here’s a look back through Mountain Lion security updates, paintings of oblivion, and more.

January 23, 2022 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Ruby text in Pages

T T Read More

A valuable feature for many Pages users, it’s carefully hidden from anyone who doesn’t normally use Japanese, Chinese or Korean.

January 11, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Technology

How to use offline translation in Monterey

T T Read More

How you can use both online and offline translation in Monterey, including a demonstrating translating Arabic into English.

November 10, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Podofyllin version 1.1 introduces lightweight bookmarks

New ‘marks’, lightweight bookmarks to make navigating large documents easier. They aren’t written out to the PDF document, though, leaving it intact.

September 25, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology, Updates

How to compare two PDF documents

We often need to compare two documents, such as legal agreements or revisions of a report. How can we do this if they’re PDFs?

August 14, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Posts navigation

Previous1 2 3 … 48 Next
Blog at WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • About & Contact
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • Language
  • Tech
  • Life
  • General
  • Downloads
  • Mac problem-solving
  • Extended attributes (xattrs)
  • Painting topics
  • Hieronymus Bosch
  • English language
  • LockRattler: 10.12 Sierra
  • LockRattler: 10.13 High Sierra
  • LockRattler: 10.11 El Capitan
  • Updates: El Capitan
  • Updates: Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur
  • LockRattler: 10.14 Mojave
  • SilentKnight, silnite, LockRattler, SystHist & Scrub
  • DelightEd & Podofyllin
  • xattred, Metamer, Sandstrip & xattr tools
  • 32-bitCheck & ArchiChect
  • T2M2, Ulbow, Consolation and log utilities
  • Cirrus & Bailiff
  • Taccy, Signet, Precize, Alifix, UTIutility, Sparsity, alisma
  • Revisionist & DeepTools
  • Text Utilities: Nalaprop, Dystextia and others
  • PDF
  • Keychains & Permissions
  • LockRattler: 10.15 Catalina
  • Updates
  • Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
  • Long Reads
  • Mac Troubleshooting Summary
  • LockRattler: 11.0 Big Sur
  • M1 & M2 Macs
  • Mints: a multifunction utility
  • LockRattler: 12.x Monterey
  • VisualLookUpTest
  • Virtualisation on Apple silicon
  • LockRattler: 13.x Ventura
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • Follow Following
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Join 3,133 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...