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Category Archive: Language

Big Sur’s Tower of Babel

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Time to speak Klingon to your Mac. Or, rather, don’t try this at home or you could end up with mixed languages, and Help pages in something else.

March 13, 2021 Language, Macs, Technology

How effective and safe is Preview’s redaction tool?

Preview now offers a tool to redact content from PDF documents. It’s simple to use, but is it safe, or could it lead to disclosure of sensitive information?

December 11, 2020 General, Language, Macs, Technology

News for those who follow this blog by email

At the end of October, some of you who follow this blog by email started reporting to me […]

November 6, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

When you shouldn’t use unconventional Unicode text

What’s the harm in using a tool to apply ‘styles’ to plain Unicode text in a tweet, or similar?

September 1, 2020 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Rosettavert version 1.5 is now available as a Universal App

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Utility to convert text files between different code pages and formats now runs native on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.

August 26, 2020 Language, Macs, Technology, Updates

Exploring natural languages with Nalaprop

How to analyse text in any combination of 8 major languages into parts of speech, and make word frequency counts, all for free.

August 24, 2020 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Fun and confuddling with Unicode

How to hide text so that it can’t be searched or analysed, and how file naming almost brought APFS down.

August 21, 2020 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Nalaprop version 1.0 is released as a Universal App

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This linguistic analysis tool uses macOS to identify languages, parse them into grammatical types, even analyse word frequencies.

August 20, 2020 Language, Macs, Technology, Updates

Putting the text back into mail

Why should anyone still want to work with email messages in text? Here’s why, and how you can benefit too.

August 7, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Accessing this blog – news feeds and pages

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.

April 27, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

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