# foursquare (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover foursquare. Page: Feed: --- ## [Ai Transcription Gone Rouge](https://www.spokenlikeageek.com/2026/08/19/ai-transcription-gone-rouge/) _2026-08-19 · Neil Thompson · Spoken Like a Geek_ I wrote recently about using Ai to help Transcribing handwritten diary entries into Day One. On the whole this has been a great success but there have been one or two interesting hallucinations. A Blank Page Not every page in my diary has a written entry but I have been scanning and transcribing them all \[…\] ## [Foursquare Check-in Stats](https://www.spokenlikeageek.com/2026/08/12/foursquare-check-in-stats/) _2026-08-12 · Neil Thompson · Spoken Like a Geek_ Late last year I wrote a script that took my Foursquare check-ins and created an entry for each of them in the Day One app. This continues to work well and you can read more about it here: I felt that there was more that could be done with the information held in Foursquare and \[…\] ## [Checking which macOS apps rely on Rosetta](https://www.spokenlikeageek.com/2026/08/08/checking-which-macos-apps-rely-on-rosetta/) _2026-08-08 · Neil Thompson · Spoken Like a Geek_ Do you keep seeing this notification pop-up on your MacBook? Do you know what it means? Do you know what to do about it? If not read on to find out. What is Rosetta and why is it needed? Rosetta 2\* is Apple’s translation technology that lets Intel Mac applications run on Apple Silicon Macs \[…\] ## [Transcribing handwritten diary entries into Day One](https://www.spokenlikeageek.com/2026/07/08/transcribing-handwritten-diary-entries-into-day-one/) _2026-07-08 · Neil Thompson · Spoken Like a Geek_ I recently wrote a post about the ongoing project I have been doing to transcribe all my physical diaries and journals into the Day One app. In this post I lamented that when I had tried transcribing my handwritten entries using AI the results had been less than perfect with too many changes and some \[…\] [Listen](https://www.spokenlikeageek.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Screen-Recording-2026-06-28-at-17.31.12.mov) ## [Xteink X3 Review](https://www.spokenlikeageek.com/2026/07/01/xteink-x3-review/) _2026-07-01 · Neil Thompson · Spoken Like a Geek_ I’ve made no secret of my love for the Xteink X4, the tiny ereader that you can take with you wherever you go (and I do). So why did I also buy the X4’s little sibling? Read on to find out… What is the X3? Xteink is a Chinese company that manufactures and sells small, \[…\] ## [Google has made us Stupid](https://www.spokenlikeageek.com/2026/06/19/google-has-made-us-stupid/) _2026-06-19 · Neil Thompson · Spoken Like a Geek_ I’ve been away on holiday, on a cruise at it happens. I mention that only as it is important to this story. On board there is a dedicated website that you can access to check your account, see what’s on today, book restaurants etc. The web address for this site is: http://myholiday.pocruises.com/ Now, I know \[…\] ## [Decoding the Evernote Auth Token](https://www.spokenlikeageek.com/2026/06/03/decoding-the-evernote-auth-token/) _2026-06-03 · Neil Thompson · Spoken Like a Geek_ If, like me, you are still persisting with Evernote’s aging API (I have two projects that use it) you will have come across the Auth Token that is used to validate requests. In today’s post we are going to try and unpack that. What does it contain? The raw Auth Token looks like this: Which \[…\] ## [apfel for Alfred Workflow](https://www.spokenlikeageek.com/2026/05/27/apfel-for-alfred-workflow/) _2026-05-27 · Neil Thompson · Spoken Like a Geek_ In today’s fast changing AI world Apple is very much coming from behind with it’s products and services in this space. Apple now groups its on-device AI under the Apple Intelligence umbrella and includes things like Siri. What is Apple Intelligence Launched At the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024, Apple officially unveiled Apple Intelligence. This \[…\] ## [Go to a Specific Date in DayOne](https://www.spokenlikeageek.com/2026/05/20/go-to-a-specific-date-in-dayone/) _2026-05-20 · Neil Thompson · Spoken Like a Geek_ I’ve written about directly accessing the Day One database before along with a number of posts about getting data in from other services. This week I came across a niggle with the Day One Mac app in that you cannot go directly to a specific dated post just by typing the date you want. You \[…\] ## [Computer Education in Schools in the 1980s (Revisited)](https://www.spokenlikeageek.com/2026/05/13/computer-education-in-schools-in-the-1980s-revisited/) _2026-05-13 · Neil Thompson · Spoken Like a Geek_ A while back I wrote about my experience of computer science education in the 1980s and, in particular, use of the CESIL language. You can read about that here: Since then I have been contacted both by the daughter of the pupil that wrote the CESIL interpreter and someone that is writing a book about \[…\] ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xRinIlrDNUtQ) _2026-05-13 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [Automatically Rotating Images with php2Bluesky](https://www.spokenlikeageek.com/2026/05/09/restricting-who-can-reply-to-a-bluesky-post-with-php2bluesky-2/) _2026-05-09 · Neil Thompson · Spoken Like a Geek_ I have a PHP application that I use to post to my X, Mastodon and Bluesky accounts. This works well but I noticed the last time I posted an image from my iPhone that while it was fine on X and Mastodon on Bluesky the image was upside down (see above and here)! Interestingly this \[…\]