Text Grab 4.8: Improvements all around

The latest version of Text Grab is out now and brings improvements to the Grab Frame, Quick Simple Lookup, and the Edit Text Window! Grab Frame Edit the image in the Grab Frame by: Inverting colors Increasing contrast Adjusting brightness Improved the position when pasting and image Quick Simple Lookup Search with RegEx Search using … Continue reading Text Grab 4.8: Improvements all around

Support Open Source to share the benefits, not the costs

The beginning of every software project involves researching what is available. What product exists already, what are other parts of the solution have been solved, and where are the gaps. Software is delightful to build these days because a lot of the terrible parts have been solved and the solutions are easy to access. Likely … Continue reading Support Open Source to share the benefits, not the costs

Do you know what’s in your QR Code?

The web continuously costs money to run, so every website you visit is trying to pay the bills one way or another. If the website is doing a free task for you make sure there aren't any hard-to-spot strings attached. QR Codes can be a modern bait and switch which trip up even tech savvy … Continue reading Do you know what’s in your QR Code?

Make “phone document scans” look perfect with MagickCrop

I don't know about you, but I "scan" documents, whiteboards, and more with my phone camera all of the time. While my iPhone camera is everything I would want... the documents are never as clean and clear as I'd like them to be. You can manually try to reverse the perspective distortion with edit tools … Continue reading Make “phone document scans” look perfect with MagickCrop