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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CCATP #777 Angela Preston on Creating an Open Source Knitting Font
One of the great joys of Mastodon is that I’m meeting new people with a cross-section of interests that overlap with my own. By following hashtags like #programming and #technology and #knitting and #crocheting, I can find fellow nerds who are also into the crafts I enjoy. I discovered this week’s guest, Angela Preston through […]
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Getting Your Feet Wet with TrueNAS — by PDXKurt
Hi, this is PDXKurt, bringing you an introduction to the open source operating system for network-attached storage systems called TrueNAS, maintained by the company iXSystems. TrueNAS manages disks, runs network applications, and offers volumes over the network to client computers. It is thus similar in function to the operating system that runs on products that […]
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Announcing Transcripts for All Podfeet Podcasts
Jill is Amazing Jill from the Northwoods is a beast at learning new things and implementing the things she learns. When she met me in real life, she bought one of my older MacBook Pros because she wanted to learn the Mac and potentially move over to macOS leaving Windows behind. Shortly after that, she […]
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Security Bits — 3 April 2022
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 More fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: 🇷🇺 Courts in Russia Declare Meta an “Extremist Organization,” Ban App — www.macobserver.com/… (WhatsApp) 🇷🇺 Google News appears to have been blocked in Russia — […]
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CCATP #719 – Bart Busschots on PBS Tidbits 3 of Y
In this Programming By Stealth adjacent installment labeled Tidbits 3 of Y, Bart Busschots talks to us about the dangers of using other people’s code in your code, and the danger of not using other people’s code. He explains this seeming dichotomy and gives us ways to approach the problem taking a middle ground. He […]
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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, September 5, 2021, and this is show number 852. Before we get started, I have an announcement. There will NOT be a live show this coming Sunday, September […]
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Joplin Open Source Cross-Platform Notebook App – by Knightwise
Joplin on iOS A while ago, friend of the show Cyberpunk Librarian told me something about an app called Joplin. A cross-platform, self-hosted notetaking application that was supposed to be the bee’s knees when it came to note-taking and todo-lists. I was curious but dismissed the notion at first because it all smelled a little […]
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