Open source text editing for your website with CKEditor: Open source text editing for your website with CKEditor AnnaTomanek Mon, 04/03/2023 – 03:00 Most applications allow users to create and add some textual content, such as a comment, a chat message, an article, a product description, or a legal document. Today, plain text isn’t enough. …
Valentine’s Day: why you should send a love letter not a text – with help from some of English’s greatest writers: Love letters have a rich history as Valentine's Day gifts. AnnGeorgievna / Shutterstock Most of us, these days, communicate via text message, email and posts on social media. The age of the letter, it …
Chat with us by text about our Quarter Life series – and receive weekly article updates: ImYanis / Shutterstock Our Quarter Life series brings academic rigour and research to help solve problems facing those of us in our 20s and 30s. Whether you’re struggling with doomscrolling, worried about the cost of living, diving into the …
Use this nifty Unix tool to process text on Linux: Use this nifty Unix tool to process text on Linux Jim Hall Thu, 07/28/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this Unix has always excelled at processing text, and Linux is no different. And the tools to work with and transform text …
How I use the Linux fmt command to format text: How I use the Linux fmt command to format text Jim Hall Thu, 07/21/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like When I write documentation for a project, I often write the Readme file and Install instructions in plain text. …
A cool WordPress image: SQL file in Text editor Image by bavatuesdays Here is an example of what the .SQL file will look like in a text editor. Image automatically curated and published by www.free-mail.co.za – CLICK HERE to learn more about WP Robot for WordPress. Have you tried: Farking?
Uganda study shows text messages can boost tax compliance: here’s what worked: Text messages were found to work in increasing tax compliance in Uganda. Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images Every government needs money to fund its political, social and economic duties. Much of what they spend is …
Charities are contributing to growing mistrust of mental-health text support — here’s why: Johnny Lighthands, Author provided Like many areas of society, mental healthcare has changed drastically as a result of the pandemic. Forced to adapt to a growing demand for counselling and crisis services, mental health charities have had to quickly increase their digital …
Edit text on Linux with KWrite and Kate: A text editor is often a good example application to demonstrate what a programming framework is capable of producing. I myself have written at least three example text editors in articles about wxPython and PyQt, and Java. The reason they’re seen as easy apps to create is …
Tame your text with Perl: Although its popularity has been tempered by languages like Python, Lua, and Go, Perl was one of the primary utilitarian languages on Unix and Linux for 30 years. It remains an important and powerful component in many open source systems today. If you haven’t used Perl much, then you may …
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Use Mozilla DeepSpeech to enable speech to text in your application: One of the primary functions of computers is to parse data. Some data is easier to parse than other data, and voice input continues to be a work in progress. There have been many improvements in the area in recent years, though, and one …
Do you use predictive text? Chances are it’s not saving you time – and could even be slowing you down: ImYanis/Shutterstock Typing is one of the most common things we do on our mobile phones. A recent survey suggests that millenials spend 48 minutes each day texting, while boomers spend 30 minutes. Since the advent …
South Africa in the news: COP26 news live: Sharma ‘envisages closing COP’ on Saturday – as Saudi Arabia warns of ‘unacceptable’ language in text: Alok Sharma says he envisages closing the summit on Saturday; near-final draft agreement published with key section on fossil fuels watered down; Saudi Arabia says the Paris agreement must be …: …
South Africa in the news: T20 World Cup: Lewis’ 32-ball fifty fires West Indies against South Africa – clips, radio & text: Evin Lewis eased the pressure that South Africa built from the first couple of overs by doing this. They could do with him hitting a few more. This is some serious pace from …
Why Mark Text is my favorite markdown editor: I got introduced to the markdown format a few years ago when I began to explore Jupyter Notebooks. Many of the other writers at Opensource.com knew markdown, but it was a skill that was unfamiliar to me. Markdown is a standard way of writing text, in which …
Position text on your screen in Linux with ncurses: Most Linux utilities just scroll text from the bottom of the screen. But what if you wanted to position text on the screen, such as for a game or a data display? That’s where ncurses comes in. read more: Opensource.com Jim Hall Supporting Open Source. Have …
Edit text like Emacs in FreeDOS: On Linux, I often use the GNU Emacs editor to write the source code for new programs. I learned GNU Emacs long ago when I was an undergraduate student, and I still have the “finger memory” for all the keyboard shortcuts. When I started work on FreeDOS in 1994, …