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    Funny: Attention OSX Leopard users!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Captain Fail, Mar 17, 2009.

  1. Captain Fail

    Captain Fail Notebook Evangelist

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    STEP ONE: Turn up volume

    STEP TWO: Open the terminal

    STEP THREE: Type the following and press enter:

    Code: 
    say -v albert I, Had, Your, Mom.
    STEP FOUR: LOLZ!

    STEP FIVE: Type the following and press enter:

    Code: 
    say -v zarvox Nuclear Launch Detected
    STEP SIX: ROFL!


    Now you do it, and lets all ROFL together! :D
     
    Captain Fail, Mar 17, 2009
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  2. Khris

    Khris Yes I am better than you!

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    Can I just roll my eyes instead?
     
    Khris, Mar 17, 2009
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  3. jjahshik32

    jjahshik32 Notebook Deity

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    Wait.. Huh?!?
     
    jjahshik32, Mar 17, 2009
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  4. haquocdung

    haquocdung Notebook Virtuoso

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    how can we learn these commands?
     
    haquocdung, Mar 17, 2009
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  5. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    /Applications/Utilities/Voice Over Utility.app>Speech>Voices and you can set the voices you want to use graphically. Then just enable Voice Over in System Prefs>Universal Access, and type some phrase in a text editor or something to be read out loud.
     
    Budding, Mar 17, 2009
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  6. HowardZinn

    HowardZinn Notebook Geek

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    It's kind of cool when you use them in conjunction with apple scripts or shell scripts.
    It's one of the reasons I love my mac, shell and actions.
     
    HowardZinn, Mar 17, 2009
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