Category: 944: Locate with Terminal; Vintage vs. Obsolete; Your Computer Talks Back

Apple’s built in text-to-speech can be a useful tool, or just a lot of fun for pranks. This can be triggered via Terminal. When you go and open Terminal (found in the Applications > Utilities folder) you get a blank screen with a blinking cursor. Type *say “what you want you Mac to say”* and…

It is well known that computer have a life expectancy. When I refer to the life expectancy of a computer I’m not referring to how long it will work, I’m referring to how long you can keep it up to date with supported software and get it serviced. Many machines will work for years past…

Unlike the Terminal *find* command, *locate* provides indexed search results which is faster than find. Before using locate, you must build a database of system files, which will allow you to search by using the locate command. To build the database type the following command: *sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.locate.plist* After the database is built…

_Hello Fellow Technophiles,_ Sometimes it seems like new operating systems appear more and more frequently. In reality, Apple has been on a pretty regular schedule of releasing a new OS once per year. Every time that they do, I get the same set of questions: * Should I update my machine? * Will my software/hardware…