I’ve used the free and open source Audacity for audio recording and editing for as long as I can remember. I did my first podcast recordings using Audacity nearly 20 years ago. What I never did before though, was to actually learn how to use it well. I’d push record, do some minor edits, maybe […]
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Create a Virtual Display on Your Mac with DeskPad
I’ve got one of the weirdest and head-bendy tool reviews for you today. Let’s see if I can set up a problem to be solved to get you interested first. The Problem to be Solved Let’s say you’re doing a presentation and you need to share your screen. This causes a few challenges, especially if […]
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NC #1024 Night Before Christmas by Steve, Local Large Language Models with Steve Mattan, Bart Busschots on Smart Home Humidity Devices, 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 Saturday, December 21, 2024, and this is show number 1024. mp3 download CCATP #804 — Pat Dengler on an Elaborate Scam Involving “Amazon”, the “FBI”, “Lawyers”, and More You probably […]
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Subscribe to Podcasts … Through Activity Pub … Using Podcast Index … on Mastodon
By now you’ve probably figured out how to follow podcasts in your podcatcher of choice. I’ve just learned of another option that I’m not sure is easy or will be a widespread method, but it’s definitely interesting. You’ve at least heard of Mastodon by now, even if you’re not an avid user like I am. […]
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Make Beautiful Online Documentation with MkDocs
This week I taught myself a new tool and I’m very excited about it. Let’s start with the problem to be solved, shall we? As you may already know, the Programming By Stealth community is working on porting Bart Busschots’s XKPasswd secure, memorable password generation service to modern web tools. Bart created the original service […]
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CES 2024: TIER IV Level 4 Self-Driving Software for EVs
Allison discusses TIER IV’s efforts and successes in developing autonomous driving (AD) software for electric vehicles. With a strong focus on safety, innovation, and open-source software, TIER IV aims to empower people and revolutionize the way people live and interact with transportation. Based in Japan, TIER IV has successfully achieved Level 4 AD services in […]
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OCR PDFs using Free Open Source Tools with Apple Shortcuts (or Automator)
I’ve been talking a lot lately about different methods of running Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on PDFs using only free open source tools after George from Tulsa taught us about OCRmyPDF. All of the methods I’ve described work, but they’re pretty high on the nerd scale. OCR PDFs with Open Source Tools on Linux by […]
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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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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