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Houdah Blog – News, Tips & Tricks Houdah Blog News, Tips & Tricks Menu and widgets Recent Posts Filter Photos by Keywords Find and Fix PDF Files That Lack Searchable Text Video Tour of Photos Workbench Batch Change Photo Titles using Photos Workbench Add Locations to Photos Using Photos Workbench Browse by Product HoudahSpot HoudahGeo Tembo Type2Phone letZi Sudoku Uno ACTPrinter Search the Houdah Blog Search for: Subscribe via RSS RSS - Posts Filter Photos by Keywords In Photos Workbench , keyword palettes and keyboard shortcuts make it particularly easy to assign keywords to your photos. Photos Workbench can filter albums by keywords, allowing you to find or focus on a specific set of images. Along with albums, keywords help you organize your images. Typically, albums group photos by event. Keywords are labels that describe the subject of a photo or properties of the photo. Examples: Family”, Landscape”, …, Still-Life”, Action”, … Keywords can also be used to flag images you intend to work with or export. For instance, you can assign the keyword Share” to all the photos you plan to add to the family’s shared album. Favorite Keywords: Organize your pictures and flag those that you intend to share Continue reading Filter Photos by Keywords Share this: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Pocket Posted on January 12, 2024 Author houdah Categories Photos Workbench Tags Apple Photos , Filter , Keywords , Photos , Tips & Tricks Find and Fix PDF Files That Lack Searchable Text Archiving paper documents as PDF files is a great way to save shelf space and preserve essential records. However, more than simply scanning the documents is required. It would be best if you also used Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to process the scans. Once OCR has processed a PDF scan, the file contains an invisible text version in addition to the scanned image of the document. macOS Spotlight can now index the content, and you can use HoudahSpot to search your document archive. But what if some of your PDF files lack OCR text? Continue reading Find and Fix PDF Files That Lack Searchable Text Share this: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Pocket Posted on December 23, 2023 December 23, 2023 Author houdah Categories HoudahSpot Tags OCR , PDF , PDFify , PDFPen , Template , Tips & Tricks Video Tour of Photos Workbench This 5-minute guided tour of Photos Workbench rushes you past all the landmarks and leaves you wanting. The tour guide encourages you to download Photos Workbench to satisfy your curiosity. Continue reading Video Tour of Photos Workbench Share this: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Pocket Posted on January 18, 2023 January 18, 2023 Author houdah Categories Photos Workbench Tags Apple Photos , Geocode , GPS , macOS , Map , Metadata , Organize , Photos , Screencast Batch Change Photo Titles using Photos Workbench In Apple Photos, titles can hint at what is in a picture or where and when you took it. Descriptive titles are one of the resources we can use to organize and find photos. Photos Workbench offers several methods of adding descriptive titles to photos: Find & Replace Text: Change existing titles Name Format: Build titles from text and tokens Custom names can include a date and counter. The counter numbers the photos in their current order. Sort photos by date or arrange them manually to number the images by topic or order of preference. Let’s see Photos Workbench in action. Share this: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Pocket Posted on January 17, 2023 January 18, 2023 Author houdah Categories Photos Workbench Tags Apple Photos , macOS , Metadata , Organize , Photos , Rename , Screencast , Tips & Tricks Add Locations to Photos Using Photos Workbench Photos Workbench offers several methods of adding locations to photos: Drag-and-drop photos on a large map Automatic geocoding use a track log from a GPS device or iPhone app Incremental geocoding places photos along the path you traveled Location information will allow Apple Photos to show your images on a map. It will help you look up images that you did not otherwise file or tag. Knowing – and showing – where you took a photo adds to its story”. On the map in Photos and Photos Workbench you get a bird’s-eye view of where you took your photos and the route you took to get there. Let’s see Photos Workbench in action. Share this: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Pocket Posted on January 14, 2023 January 18, 2023 Author houdah Categories Photos Workbench Tags Apple Photos , Geocode , Google Photos , GPS , iOS , macOS , Map , Metadata , Organize , Photos , Screencast , Tips & Tricks , Track Logger Introducing: Photos Workbench Photos Workbench is a companion to Apple Photos on macOS. It helps you organize, name, and compare your photos. Continue reading Introducing: Photos Workbench Share this: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Pocket Posted on January 9, 2023 January 17, 2023 Author houdah Categories Photos Workbench Tags Apple Photos , Geocode , GPS , Location , macOS , Organize , Photos What’s New in Tembo 3.0? macOS 11 and 12 have introduced a dramatic new look representing a significant aesthetic departure from previous macOS versions. Tembo 3.0 adopts this refreshed Mac user interface with a fine-tuned new look, a new icon, and a redesigned toolbar. Moreover, Tembo 3 adds support for Macs with Apple Silicon processors. It gives you the best performance on the latest Mac hardware. Apple Mail Plug-in Tembo 3.0 can again search Apple Mail messages. Starting with macOS 10.15 Catalina, Apple Mail messages are no longer available through the Spotlight index used by Tembo . Tembo 3.0 can nonetheless find your Apple Mail messages. Tembo installs a plug-in that runs within the Mail application. This plug-in allows Tembo to include Mail message files in your search results. Enhanced Grid View In Grid view, you can turn on additional file information which will display information like an image’s size, f-stop, shutter speed, ISO, and other metadata directly below the file name. File Tags Your favorite file tags are now available from the context menu. Customizable keyboard shortcuts allow for quick tagging. Further Enhancements Search By Date : Tembo 3.0 adds new options to search for files by time frame Options : New options menu to quickly adjust your search parameters. Set default options in Tembo preferences Apple Silicon : Tembo 3.0 works with the latest versions of macOS and fully supports Apple Silicon Macs Share this: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Pocket Posted on October 4, 2022 October 4, 2022 Author houdah Categories Tembo Tags Apple Mail , Files , macOS , Metadata , Search , Tags Non-Recursive Search: Find Top-Level Files Only HoudahSpot searches recursively” descend into subfolders: results will include files from the folder where you are searching as well as files from folders nested within that folder. In HoudahSpot you can list folders where you want to search. You can also exclude folders (and their subfolders) from the search : just drag the folder from the breadcrumb path at the bottom of the HoudahSpot window to the Locations/Exclude list. In most cases, you want search results to include nested items. You have organized your files in a folder hierarchy and are using a search tool to find files anywhere in a folder tree of related files. Sometimes you want to see only results from the top-level folder. You can repeat the above procedure to exclude more folders. Excluding all subfolders, one by one would be tedious. We will use a filter instead. Continue reading Non-Recursive Search: Find Top-Level Files Only Share this: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Pocket Posted on December 7, 2021 December 7, 2021 Author houdah Categories HoudahSpot Tags Files , Filter , Folder , Location , macOS , Search , Tips & Tricks HoudahGeo 6: A New Way of Lining Up Photos with a GPS Track Automatic geocoding in HoudahGeo matches photos to a GPS track log. A track log is a record of where you have been. A GPS app or track logger records your current position and the current...