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Text file formats

What’s the difference between plain text, marked-up plain text, and rich text? How can I tell them apart, and how do they work?

December 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

How should you save web pages in Safari?

How should you keep copies of web pages: HTML source, Webarchive, or PDF? Which is the better way to make PDFs in Safari? And what about archive copies?

July 1, 2022 Macs, Technology

Publishing code in WordPress articles

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Customising WordPress to lay out source code turned into HTML by Codye.

January 25, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

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

Colour fonts are upon us – in Mojave at least

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Emoji are no longer the only characters which come in full colour: OpenType-SVG fonts are now available in full colour too, and simple to use in macOS 10.14 and iOS 12.

August 8, 2019 General, Macs, Technology

DelightEd now opens the rich text content of PDFs, as well as HTML, RTF and text files

This Rich Text editor now opens and saves RTF, plain text, HTML, and PDF, in which it preserves as much text styling as possible.

April 2, 2019 Macs, Technology

DelightEd now opens and saves plain text and HTML as well as Rich Text

Version 1.1 supports three file formats, but working with HTML is not easy, as it cannot (yet) support bimodal text.

December 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

Is a Dark Web achievable?

Dark Mode isn’t in the least bit simple. Some “Apps that look great in Dark Mode” still dazzle with brilliant white views. But the problems are worst with websites – for the time being.

October 31, 2018 Macs, Technology

Beyond mere appearance: Dark Mode, the semantics of colour, and text without print

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We’re still writing most text in black on a white background on displays with wide colour and high-resolution. Why not use colour for additional meaning?

October 11, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Free conversion of text files with textutil

How to convert the text content of text, HTML, RTF, Word .doc and .docx, Webarchive, and other files, for free, using a simple command tool.

March 28, 2018 Macs, Technology

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