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Explainer: Property lists and preferences

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They’re XML, structured into dictionaries and arrays containing key-value pairs. Preference plists are managed, and need special treatment.

July 17, 2021 Macs, Technology

To fly (un)like a bird with JSON and a drone

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Time to take to the air with a Parrot ANAFI drone. Early experiences, sample video and images. Why use a flight simulator when you can fly (un)like a bird?

March 20, 2021 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Bug-hunting in Consolation and Woodpile: success in obscurity

New updates to these apps fix crashing bugs when using styled log display, or converting log excerpts to CSV (Consolation).

December 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

More Scripting in Swift: Styling Attributed Text

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Structuring, parsing, and styling text is not difficult when you use Swift 3 as your scripting language.

May 16, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: Implementing JSON to CSV conversion

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I’m sure there are more idiomatic or even efficient ways of doing it, but here is how I converted JSON data to CSV output.

March 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Beyond Scripting in Swift: JSON and the Golden NSDictionary

Making progress with Consolation version 2: working out how to export useful data from JSON log excerpts. A punch-up in the Swift Playground.

March 3, 2017 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Moving with the times and the data

JSON is a popular standard for data obtained from internet sources. How well is it supported by spreadsheets? And two major upgrades: Tinderbox 7 and Dash 4.

February 26, 2017 General, Macs, Technology

R as a platform for data conversion: JSON to Excel for log extracts

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How to import complete log extracts into Excel or Numbers, using R as a conversion platform. It’s a bit convoluted, but it works.

February 24, 2017 Macs, Technology

Using Consolation’s log extracts

Sierra’s new logs have new uses, such as collecting and analysing test and use data – only if you can import log extracts into a suitable app.

February 22, 2017 Macs, Technology

Writing your own content-blocker for Safari 9 in El Capitan: 5, you’re on your own now

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Armed with your signing certificate, this final article launches you on the path to developing your own content-blocker.

October 3, 2015 Macs, Technology

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