NSLinguisticTagger
NSLinguisticTagger offers powerful tools to process natural language. It breaks strings into tokens, finds parts of speech and stems, pulls out names of people, places, and groups, and spots languages and scripts.
Development
2012
114 posts
AddressBookUI
The Address Book UI framework in iOS, used alongside AddressBook.framework, provides controllers for managing contacts but includes a uniquely valuable function, ABCreateStringWithAddressDictionary(), which formats address components into a localised string.
Development
Monthly update #0269 • September 2012
Monthly update 269 • September 2012 • 2012-09-01 - 2012-09-30
Monthly Updates
De Cock en moord in beeld by A.C. Baantjer
A worker accuses his former employer of dumping poison in the Amstel, and the case grows into something far darker for De Cock.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0074 • September 2012
September 2012 mixed state censorship of Google, YouTube and Twitter with hard breach disclosures, fresh browser and card flaws and a wave of surveillance and tracking fights.
Privacy
Eurobloat #0028 • August 2012
The month the European Central Bank promised to buy bonds without limit, Greece guarded its own border without permission, and Brussels quietly shelved its plan to read everyone's phone records, but only for now.
Eurobloat
Spy Game
Spy Game (2001), directed by Tony Scott, is a sharp and thrilling espionage film that keeps you hooked. Robert Redford is outstanding as Nathan Muir, a seasoned CIA operative racing against time to save his protégé, Tom Bishop, played with intensity by Brad Pitt.
Movies
Epic Chants by Gregorian
Gregorian's 2012 Epic Chants reworks film and pop anthems as choral, monastic settings, grand and oddly soothing.
Music
The Dictator
The Dictator (2012), directed by Larry Charles, is a comedy about a North African tyrant who loses his identity while visiting New York. Sacha Baron Cohen plays Admiral General Aladeen, the ruler of the fictional Republic of Wadiya.
Movies
Open Sky by Iona
A later discovery: Iona's 2000 album folds Celtic folk and progressive rock into long, open instrumentals about faith and place.
Music
Useful macOS defaults: Screen Saver
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.screensaver, controlling screen saver password and timing.
Mac
What is spindump?
If you see spindump running on your Mac, here is what this hang detection process does.
Mac
De Cock en moord à la carte by A.C. Baantjer
A restaurant menu carries a full written confession to a murder, and De Cock recalls an old killing he never solved.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0073 • August 2012
August 2012 showed how weak account recovery, leaky databases and government surveillance powers all chip away at personal privacy at once.
Privacy
Monthly update #0268 • August 2012
Monthly update 268 • August 2012 • 2012-08-01 - 2012-08-31
Monthly Updates
Eurobloat #0027 • July 2012
The month a bankrupt, divided, communist-led island took the wheel, a central banker promised whatever it takes with money he did not have, and Brussels began drafting itself a tax.
Eurobloat
Eye on It by TobyMac
TobyMac's 2012 album Eye on It blends Christian hip hop and pop rock with electronic colour and bright, hopeful hooks.
Music
CFBag
The article explores the CFBag and CFMutableBag Core Foundation types, which implement a bag (multi-set) data structure, allowing multiple occurrences of elements with associated counts.
Development
What is FileCoordination?
If you see FileCoordination running on your Mac, here is what this file access coordination process does.
Mac
The Janson Command by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Janson Command, co-authored with Paul Garrison, Paul Janson and Jessica Kincaid rescue a doctor in West Africa and uncover an oil cartel pulling the strings.
Books
CFStringTransform
NSString and its toll-free bridged counterpart CFMutableString in Foundation and Core Foundation are highlighted for their exceptional Unicode handling, with CFStringTransform enabling powerful string transformations like stripping diacritics, naming Unicode characters, and transliterating between scripts such as Latin, Cyrillic, and Hiragana.
Development
De Cock en de bloedwraak by A.C. Baantjer
A young man threatens a tourist with an infected needle, and the arrest pulls De Cock into a murder tied to the fear of AIDS.
Books
Monthly update #0267 • July 2012
Monthly update 267 • July 2012 • 2012-07-01 - 2012-07-31
Monthly Updates
Brave
A Bridge Too Far (1977), directed by Richard Attenborough, shows Operation Market Garden. This Allied plan in 1944 aimed to seize bridges in the Netherlands to end the war fast. It failed. The film uses a large cast.
Movies
Privacy Roundup #0072 • July 2012
July 2012 was defined by a wave of plaintext password leaks, fresh evidence of mass cellphone and Skype surveillance, and a string of regulators and courts wrestling with location tracking and facial recognition.
Privacy