Archive for the ‘osx’ Category

How do I make a program do a bash script on mac osx?

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

I have a mac osx. Lets say I have a program that is nothing more then a button. You press this button and it will do a bash script. Now I have the bash script and I have the code for the button, but how do I make it so when click ...

How do you disable the text to speech function on mac osx?

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

This is the "say" function on OSX via terminal. I am running 10.5.6 I have disabled ssh, and I know you can edit the voice via system prefs:speech however I want to completely disable the say function. I have far too many co-workers who enjoy scripting say commands ...

How to uninstall mac osx version 10 from windows xp?

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

i installed 1/2 of max osx and decided i didnt want it anymore. i cant open itunes so how do i get rid of it? Ok, here is what you do step by step, 1 click start 2 then click control panel 3 then click add or remove programs (Wait for the list ...

Is it possible to run OSX on an aced aspire 5532? Any help would be greatly appreciated!?

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Yeah, I may be getting an aver aspire 5532 lap-top or christmas, and I would like to know, is it possible to run mac OSX on it? Any help would be greatly appreciated! im gonna say no. Any laptops other then the macbooks and stuff should only run Windows Based OS'. You ...

How to put a password on a file for mac osx?

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

I have a macbook, its an 09 system and it comes with osx. Is there anyway I can lock a file with video/textedit documents inside it, so that to open it you have to put in a password? I've tried using disk utility but even though i set up a ...

Is is possible to install Windows or Linux on a iBook G4 without installing OSX?

Monday, January 11th, 2010

I have a computer that I got from property disposition. It came with a wiped hard drive and doesn't have an OS installed. I don't have an OSX cd and don't want to buy one. I do have Windows and Linux cds though. Is there a way I can boot ...

When I upgrade my Mac OsX, do I just install the new OsX without doing anything to the existing Osx?

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Or are there other measures that need to be taken to save data from existing OsX? The standard OS X upgrade process will not automatically delete your old data. It is always a good idea to back up important files before a major OS X upgrade. .

Is there any way to uninstall Mac OSX and install windows?

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

I have an apple eMac 1.42 ghz, 1gb of ram, 80 gb hdd and I'm tired of almost nothing being compatible with this OS. It's running OSX 10.3 and I'm trying to get Windows XP or maybe Windows 7. Please post every way I can do this. The reason nothing is ...

Mac OSX ~ How do you disable start up programs?

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

For example ~ installed games that automatically boot on start up. Various other dormant programs ~ Mac Mail So easy to do on Windows but I can't navigate to the correct OSX system manager that will disable start up applications. Thanks for your help Go to 'System Preferences' click on ...

Is it possible to run Mac OSX on a Netbook?

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Ok, this is just a stupid question, but it's a burning one. I want to know if it's possible in any way to run Mac OSX on a Dell inspiron Mini (Basically, a netbook). It has 1 GB of RAM, and 110 gigs of hard disk space. I'm not saying that ...