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Updates to DelightEd, Podofyllin and Nalaprop for Writing Tools

Three new versions that are compatible with Writing Tools in Sequoia 15.1 beta, and should perform better in other recent versions of macOS.

August 1, 2024 Macs, Technology, Updates

Are Dictionary’s days numbered?

Nearly 20 years old now, the Dictionary app seems to be slowly slipping into oblivion. It still provides access to reputable sources and Wikipedia.

April 13, 2024 Language, Macs, Technology

An A to Z of keys and keyboards: Keyboard layouts

If macOS doesn’t include your preferred keyboard layout, here’s how to create your own, and put it to work.

December 12, 2022 Language, Macs, Technology

Read Japanese using Live Text and Translation

Using Live Text to recognise kanji characters in a screenshot, then translating them from Japanese to English. Does it work?

May 21, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Interested in words and language? Nalaprop 1.1 might help

Parse text into parts of speech, or simply recognise their language or script. Analyse the frequency of words in a text, with an option to do this by word roots (lemmas).

May 5, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Ruby text in Pages

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A valuable feature for many Pages users, it’s carefully hidden from anyone who doesn’t normally use Japanese, Chinese or Korean.

January 11, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Technology

How to use offline translation in Monterey

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How you can use both online and offline translation in Monterey, including a demonstrating translating Arabic into English.

November 10, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Analysing natural languages with Nalaprop

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Identifies, parses and analyses text in any of 8 languages supported by Mojave and later. Ideal for learners, word frequency analysis, and much more.

August 10, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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

Bad design makes macOS a Tower of Babel

SilentKnight was producing some results in a mixture of English and Dutch. Its environment settings needed correction. When that didn’t fix it, I looked deeper to find language-unfriendly design in a command tool.

December 5, 2020 Macs, Technology

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