Ruby text in Pages
Sometimes powerful features get hidden quietly away in apps. One I’ve recently come across is Pages’ support for what’s more commonly known as Ruby text. That’s where you attach supplementary text to...
View ArticleEfficient resilient storage
Most of what we do in computing reduces to processing, storage and output. Storage is central to everything we do, and its goals are to be reliable, efficient and resilient. Unfortunately, as this...
View ArticleHow should you save web pages in Safari?
The Internet is frighteningly ephemeral. The site you found so useful today may have vanished next week, and the chances of it still being there in a couple of years may be slim. This article looks at...
View ArticleHow to store data and files securely using macOS
While it’s popular among third-party password managers to offer support for secure storage of files and other data beyond standard secrets like passwords, keys and certificates, macOS keychains are...
View ArticlePostScript’s sudden death in Sonoma
If there’s one language that’s been at the heart of the Macintosh for the last 39 years it’s PostScript, the page description language developed by the founders of Adobe, the late John Warnock and...
View ArticleGet more from your metadata: reversing Spotlight
Spotlight, particularly when enhanced by a powerful search app like HoudahSpot, is powerful when you know what you’re looking for, and that search term is already indexed. What it doesn’t reveal,...
View ArticleReversing Spotlight search with a second beta of Spotcord
At the start of this month, I released the first beta of a new app that reverses Spotlight search to build a vocabulary of keywords found in your images and other documents. I’m delighted today to...
View ArticleWhere is my file’s metadata?
Most of us have little difficulty in understanding where a file’s data is: each file’s records identify where that’s stored. But where is the information about that data, its metadata, stored? The best...
View ArticleAre your text secrets safe in a PDF or image?
Sometimes, one person’s favourite feature is another’s threat. Live Text is a good example of this, and at the centre of this article. The text that you’re happy to extract from a photo using Live Text...
View ArticlePDF, Live Text and Spotlight: troubled relationships
Given its original purpose, age, and erratic development, we have unrealistic expectations of our PDF documents. Just because they have become something of a de facto standard for archiving important...
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