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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Bartender 5 – ScreenCastsONLINE Video Tutorial
I recently published an article telling you all of the wonderful new features of Bartender 5, one of the most useful apps you can get for your Mac. I was so excited about the new features in Bartender 5 that I called dibs on doing the video tutorial for ScreenCastsONLINE subscribers. In the tutorial, I […]
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Baseus Blade HD 100W 20,000mAh Power Bank
In 2019 at CES, I interviewed a company called Omnicharge about their powerbanks. While they had the usual assortment of small powerbanks, the one that really caught my eye was the Omni 20 USB-C Charger. I bought it for $169 four and a half years ago and it has been one of the most useful […]
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Tiny Mac Tips – Part 8 of X
Jump to Tips Quick Actions Menu More Resolution Options on Your Displays Why do Double Dashes Turn into One Long Em Dash? Option-Click Red Finder Window Button to Close All Windows Keyboard Shortcuts by Daniel Alm from the Timing App I’m back with Part 8 of Tiny Mac Tips. This is an ongoing series I […]
Continue readingNC #968 OCR PDFs with Linux, Smart String Lights from Hue and Twinkly, De-Teching with Tom, 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, November 26, 2023, and this is show number 968. mp3 download Checklist 353 – A Letter on Passkeys from Allison Sheridan This week I got to be a […]
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CCATP # 779 — Bart Busschots on PBS 156 of X — Extracting Data with `jq`
After the last episode of Programming By Stealth where Bart gave us an intro to jq and the problems it can solve, this week we start to get our feet wet by learning how to extract data from JSON files. We learn how to descend into dictionaries and arrays, and how to slice arrays. Learn […]
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Smart Light Strings from Hue and Twinkly — by Jill from the Northwoods
Hello everyone. This is Jill from the Northwoods. I didn’t have a Christmas tree for the last 16 years, primarily because of the cats. But this year, someone gifted me a new Christmas tree because they replaced it with something else. But here it was. I had no Christmas lights, at least none of them […]
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De-teching – by Tom from Ontario
Hi, Allison and fellow Nosillacastaways. This is Tom from Ontario. One issue that we all grapple with, often only in the back of our minds, is how to ensure our digital information is secure, but can be accessed by those who need it when we are having a medical crisis and can’t act for ourselves. […]
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OCR PDFs with Open Source Tools on Linux by George from Tulsa
George from Tulsa here responding to Allison’s request for a show contribution to reduce her load this Thanksgiving week. Years ago we paid a bank service company to microfilm file cabinets full of irreplaceable paper – some now 120 years old. The company then scanned the microfilm to image-only PDFs it delivered to us on […]
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