This week I got an email with a review from Christian: Hi Allison! Today I stumbled upon a little app that is called Find Any File. It is shareware and it works just great. It occurred to me that it might be an idea to send a little review as I could not find one […]
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Be My AI for Creating Photo Captions and Alt Text
On NosillaCast #969, Tom Mattock explained how important it is that we all add alternative text to our images when we post them on social media. We say we want more engagement, and one of the ways to get that is to be inclusive in your postings. Without alt text, blind folks can’t tell anything […]
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OCR PDFs using Free Open Source Tools with a Shell Script and Keyboard Maestro
Last week I walked you through how I was able to create a bash shell script to perform OCR on PDFs using the open source library ocrmypdf that George from Tulsa taught us about. I was very proud of my little script, but I realized that running a script isn’t a very mainstream thing to […]
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NC #970 Android with a Mac, MacWhisper 2-3X Faster, Baseus Blade HD Power Bank, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, December 10, 2023, and this is show number 970. mp3 download CCATP #780 — Jason Howell on Using Android with a Mac CCATP #781 — Bart Busschots on […]
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Security Bits — 10 December 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Allison was sceptical that Google really would move to eliminate 3rd-party cookies in 2024, but they put a little wood behind the proverbial arrow this week: Google is phasing out ad personalization for some […]
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CCATP #781 — Bart Busschots on PBS 157 of X — jq: Querying JSON with `jq`
In this week’s episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots continues his instruction on learning more about how to use the jq language to query JSON files. We get into the thick of it as Bart teaches us three important jq concepts: filter chaining, operators, and functions. To get there we learn about the literal […]
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Is the New MacWhisper Transcription Software Really 2-3X as Fast?
In August of 2023, Jill from the Northwoods told us about a terrific Mac-based transcription service called MacWhisper by Jordi Bruin from Good Snooze. As you may recall, the naming convention for this app is very confusing – it also goes by Whisper Transcription. No matter what it’s called, it’s a terrific way to use […]
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CCATP #780 — Jason Howell on Using Android with a Mac
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite, Jason Howell, podcaster and producer for the TWiT network, and musician joins me to talk about what it’s like to use an Android phone with a Mac. I live in an Apple-centric bubble, so I am very curious about how he works with these […]
Continue readingNC #969 Mac Tiny Tips Part 8, OCR PDFs with Open Source Software on a Mac, Alt Text on Images with Tom Mattock
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, December 3, 2023, and this is show number 969. mp3 download Unmute Presents – our community festive gift guide You’ve heard contributions on the NosillaCast from both Marty […]
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OCR PDFs with Free Open Source Tools on a Mac with a Shell Script
Last week, George from Tulsa gave us a great explanation of how he solved his problem of converting gigabytes of image-only PDFs to be searchable by using open source (free) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. He explained that he’s a Linux user with Linux Mint Cinnamon and so his explanation had an EVER so slight […]
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