Mac OS
Helpful Mac CLI Settings
Mac tries to be the os where everything just works, but there are actually a lot of really powerful and useful settings that do not appear anywhere in the UI. This is a growing list of the hidden options that I use. Show hidden files Open finder to a folder Press Command + Shift + . (period key) Avoid creating .DS_Store files on network [...]
Parallel Desktop Mac VM Network Issues
If you use Parallel Desktop on a M1 M2 Apple Silicon mac, the experience is not great. Its their first stab at using the new Apple Hypervisor virtualization framework. You will notice all of the settings pages are basically none existent. On a fresh install of a VM, it seems to work fine but over time things stop working. One of them may [...]
Mac Say cli to save audio file
say --voice="Samantha" -input-file="filename.txt" -output-file="filename.aiff" Available output formats are AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format – uncompressed pcm), caff (Core Audio Format – do not have 4gb file size limit), m4a, WAVE. cat filename | say --voice=Samantha –rate=180 28 English Voices You can only use the [...]
Apple iBook
I have fond memories in middle school getting to use these laptop on mobile computer lab carts. These brightly colored laptops were such a change of pace from the blocky grey or black windows laptops. Apple iBook G3 Clamshell M2453 I have the first edition of the colored iBook Model M2453, released on July 21, 1999. Maxed out the memory, [...]
Improve your Mac’s Audio Output
I’m a huge audio person, but I am not an audiophile. I think you can have amazing sound without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars of equipment or even buying additional equipment. It used to be with analog audio you needed specialized equipment to produce amazing sound. But in the digital era, almost all processing is done [...]
Disable SSL3 for Chrome on Mac
If you want to disable SSL3 support in Chrome on a Mac, you will find that there is no option in preferences and the poodle.io site really only tells you how to do it on a PC. The security update is coming soon, but in the mean time, here is how to disable it. Close Chrome and delete it from the Dock Open Terminal (Applications > [...]