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Re: Don't Hit Save - Flashlight

bogart — Mon, 16 May 2022 20:25:46 -0000

Check out the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells. 4 short novellas followed by a novel, starting with All Systems Red.

Re: How to get .mobi files into Kindle on the iPad

bogart — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 18:15:56 -0000

The email address is an easy way to do this, but so is the purpose-built "send to kindle" app from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/se...

Re: An Information Security Metrics Primer

bogart — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 15:07:06 -0000

You mention some calculators for determining team size. Do you have links for those?

Re: Rethinking My Approach to Twitter

bogart — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:24:39 -0000

I've used this approach for the past 3-4 years and I think it works pretty well. Many people don't even know about lists, and the one drawback is they seem to have limited support in the available twitter clients. I've been curating a 'cybersecuity' list of my own for at least that long (which is where you are, by the way), but even so, I find my main feed gets feature creep as I follow people for various reasons: to DM, reciprocity, simplicity (again, because most clients don't support 'add-to-list') etc.

Re: Predicting the iPhone 6S Features

bogart — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:01:41 -0000

Was this post originally entitled "things I wish had been included in the iPhone 6 release"? You're dead right about evolutionary. These features have been in a number of phones for over a year already. Seems like Apple is playing catch-up much more these days. I think that was fine when they were releasing a rock-solid product, but now we're seeing a lot of bugs shipped with the devices, like we get with other vendors who are focused on getting product out the door, rather than on quality.

Re: The Hackademic

bogart — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 16:01:43 -0000

I have run it a couple times on my linux system. My tests have been with photos of recipes from a book. It works well in some sections and less well in some others, though I suspect that is mostly due to the uneven nature of the photos. I'd expect it to work much better.

From a workflow perspective, it is pretty straightforward to run the source through imagemagick's 'convert' program, and then pass the created tiff through tesseract. It's quick and relatively painless so far.

Re: The Hackademic

bogart — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:22:01 -0000

Have you ever looked at using Tesseract for the OCR component? It's multi-platform and open source, so doesn't carry the pricetag of the others.

I know very little about OCR software capabilities, but it does look like Tesseract can output in pdf and 'hocr', which -as I understand it- is an html file with coordinates to the location of the word's image in the original document.

EDIT: Okay, upon looking further, I see that Tesseract cannot directly ingest PDFs, so one would have to add a conversion step to the workflow. Looks like some people have worked on this and posted a bash script to the user forums: https://groups.google.com/d...

Re: Evernote Reminders + Postach.io | Evertips

bogart — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 18:15:23 -0000

I often change the date in the way LaShaun mentions. Wouldn't it be great if Postach.io paid attention to the "creation date" and simply did not publish an article until it was both tagged for publishing AND the date is on or after the document's creation date?

Re: Malware: Whom or What Are We Fighting?

bogart — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:31:41 -0000

Fight the wielder, not the weapon. It's a good reminder for those slogging it out in the trenches.

Re: A Thought Experiment | The Hackademic

bogart — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:57:45 -0000

Also, the challenge is to make a "YOU-machine" without sacrificing privacy and compromising everything that makes you, you. There are some good sci0fi books about the surveillance state:
http://motherboard.vice.com...

but off-hand I don't know any that specifically address the downfall of a person or society due to the ease of which information can be obtained. Might be an interesting topic.

Re: What Should We Charge For Postach.io Premium?

bogart — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 17:18:49 -0000

Perhaps connecting a postach.io blog to an Evernote notebook with premium or business features would be a candidate. I could see small businesses using Evernote for Business really liking this service for a multi-author blog. Whatever the premium model, you should look at partnering with Evernote so someone could purchase a year of premium service for both services at a rate that is discounted against the cost of each individually.

Re: Best Lumia apps – Weather and News

bogart — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:11:21 -0000

I find the weather channel app to be too slow on startup and clunky to switch between locations. For local weather on a tile, I like weather tile. It is lightweight, but I would prefer something all-in-one that is quick, updates in the background and maybe cycles between locations on the tile.

Re: New features for Windows Phone 7.5 users coming from Nokia

bogart — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:51:50 -0000

Well, that's something, at least. Nice of Nokia/MSFT to backport some of the features that will be in Windows Phone 8. Bluetooth files and the new, smaller live tile are especially welcome.

Re: Blogger reactions to new Nokia Gear

bogart — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:59:47 -0000

If I am able to get a Lumia 920 (my 900 is only 5mos. old), then I would jump on that speaker for my room, and possibly those headphones to replace my aging BH-905s.

Re: Nokia Lumia 800, Microsoft Office, SkyDrive and you!

bogart — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:26:08 -0000

How did you get 25GB of storage on the SkyDrive? I only have 7.

Re: Best podcast apps for your Nokia Lumia

bogart — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:54:36 -0000

I've been using wpodder, as it has integration with gpodder.net, allowing one to maintain subscriptions on their service and use across other platforms (Linux, Maemo, Android, Windows, etc.)

It has a metro interface and integration with at least the music app (Now playing works), though i do not believe the downloads show up in "podcasts".

You can either download or stream the podcasts.

It will refresh all the feeds at once, however, I have not found a way to auto-download new episodes or select multiple episodes at a time.

Re: http://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034

bogart — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:46:31 -0000

This is an awesome solution, but it sounds like you're hosting your company's intellectual property on the Linnode cloud. How do you protect this data on your Linnode server?

Re: Thank You.

bogart — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 02:13:19 -0000

I'm so sorry to hear about your loss, Mikey. Great post, and wonderful pictures that really show what a special place your grandma had in your heart.

Re: SFoodie - W. Blake Gray - Dogpatch WineWorks Replaces Crushpad

bogart — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:23:47 -0000

I'm happy to see a wine-making place return to the Dogpatch. Brill ran to Napa, chasing the big money instead of staying and fostering a community of urban winemakers. He should just let it go and let WineWorks do its thing.

Re: Symantec report on mobile security concludes iOS and Android both vulnerable to attacks

bogart — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:02:43 -0000

Symantec doesn't make A/V software for iOS.

Re: Mail starts migrating to Yahoo! as of today

bogart — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:34:41 -0000

Ovi ID is the same as my Disqus ID: bogart. I just tried sending a message to my account from gmail and it failed immediately. Not a good sign, as it looks like I no longer have an account. Here is the message with a slight modification on the mail address

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

bogart at ovi [d0t] com

Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 554 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a ovi.com account (bogart at ovi [d0t] com) [-5] - mta150.mail.sp2.yahoo.com (state 18).

Re: Mail starts migrating to Yahoo! as of today

bogart — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:34:00 -0000

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

bogart at ovi [d0t] com

Re: Mail starts migrating to Yahoo! as of today

bogart — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:34:00 -0000

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

bogart at ovi [d0t] com

Re: Mail starts migrating to Yahoo! as of today

bogart — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:41:18 -0000

Jenny,
I am still unable to access my mail, even new mail or send any mail. As requested, I contacted support, but they only send me form letters that state I can still send and receive mail, which is not the case.

Please Help.

Re: Mail starts migrating to Yahoo! as of today

bogart — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:41:00 -0000

Please Help.