Productivity improvements with metadata editing and cataloguing, fun with Unicode lookalikes, and measuring the performance of storage. All now for Big Sur to Tahoe.
Dystextia
Text can be searched by eavesdroppers and crawlers to discover its content and extract it for other purposes. How to make their task more difficult using Unicode.
Updates: Alifix 1.3, Apfelstrudel 1.5, DelightEd 2.1, Dystextia 1.8, Nalaprop 1.2 and Podofyllin 1.2
Refresh Finder Aliases, explore Unicode normalisation, create rich Rich Text Documents, obfuscate text with Unicode, parse multilingual text, and view and analyse PDF documents.
What’s the harm in using a tool to apply ‘styles’ to plain Unicode text in a tweet, or similar?
How to hide text so that it can’t be searched or analysed, and how file naming almost brought APFS down.
Universal App to obfuscate text using unusual Unicode code points which look the same but are different.
Go64 checks for 32-bit apps, and Jan Kaiser has released keyboard layouts to type directly in obfuscated Unicode – both are free.
Dystextia encodes and decodes obfuscated or spoofed Unicode text. Apfelstrudel analyses Unicode normalisation, ideal when working with text on computers.
This page is for your support questions and comments on my free utilities Dystextia, which demonstrates obfuscation of […]
For your added security: the first to fix problems when your permissions go awry; the second to practise Unicode obfuscation.
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