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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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 […]
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Security Bits — 26 November 2023
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. The recent wave of malicious Google ads targeting software downloads continues, this time it’s malicious versions of the popular Secure FTP client WinSCP — thehackernews.com/… ❗ Action Alerts Calls to action, if any stories […]
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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 […]
Continue readingGoing Phablet with iPhone 15 Pro Max — Bart Busschots
Bart joins me this week on the show to discuss the tradeoffs he made in buying an iPhone 15 Pro Max. Here are some of the thoughts he’ll share. After decades of resisting big phones, and being ‘that guy’ who was cranky when the iPhone X made the smallest modern phone notably bigger, it’s finally […]
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