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Stupid sound tricks on a Mac
Sep. 18th, 2010 12:35 amFrom Kottke (omitting the snark):
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If you've got a Mac, the "droid" sound that Android phones make -- yep, the one from the commercials -- can be produced in the following manner:
1. Open Terminal.app
2. Type say -v "Cellos" "droid" at the prompt
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I can attest this works on my MacMini. And it doesn't even generate a mac snow crash.
Speaking of which... A cow-orker turned me on to the electric sheep screensaver, which is fairly cool. The way it ties into the mac's monthly-or-so snow crashes is, running it seems to defeat the power saving. So it might inhibit whatever it is the mac is screwing up on the sleep/wake cycles that induces snow crashes.
(NB: the electric sheep screensaver should not be confused with Patrick Farley's Electric Sheep Comix, or with Farley's awesome story, The Spiders. Because, cool as the screen saver may be, it doesn't hold a candle to Farley.)
EDITED TO ADD: Regarding the snow crash, that would be no. I just came to the machine to find a) it had blanked the screen in power-save, and b) a snow crash upon wake.
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If you've got a Mac, the "droid" sound that Android phones make -- yep, the one from the commercials -- can be produced in the following manner:
1. Open Terminal.app
2. Type say -v "Cellos" "droid" at the prompt
*^*^*
I can attest this works on my MacMini. And it doesn't even generate a mac snow crash.
Speaking of which... A cow-orker turned me on to the electric sheep screensaver, which is fairly cool. The way it ties into the mac's monthly-or-so snow crashes is, running it seems to defeat the power saving. So it might inhibit whatever it is the mac is screwing up on the sleep/wake cycles that induces snow crashes.
(NB: the electric sheep screensaver should not be confused with Patrick Farley's Electric Sheep Comix, or with Farley's awesome story, The Spiders. Because, cool as the screen saver may be, it doesn't hold a candle to Farley.)
EDITED TO ADD: Regarding the snow crash, that would be no. I just came to the machine to find a) it had blanked the screen in power-save, and b) a snow crash upon wake.
