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Category Archive: Language

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

Uncertain times

A few months ago, we all felt that we lived in uncertain times, but I suspect none of […]

March 19, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Disk, drive, HD: does it really make any difference?

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?

February 29, 2020 Language, Macs, Technology

Publishers determined to kill electronic books

A recent judgement makes it a breach of copyright to sell pre-owned eBooks. Do publishers really want to deter everyone from buying eBooks?

December 26, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Ultimately obfuscated coding

There may even be a few good reasons for you wanting to obfuscate your code. Perhaps you don’t […]

December 25, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

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