Originally, an iPod connected to your Mac, would show up in the Spotify app, allowing you to copy songs to the device and enjoy them later, when untethered. Not anymore. Fortunately, the analog loophole still exists; but admittedly, it’s a very inconvenient way to replicate the above mentioned lost functionality. Step1: Install the Soundflower kernel extension, which […]
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Mac2Speech, a TTS Server for the rest of us
If you want to add none trivial speech output to your application, no matter if it’s a desktop, web, or mobile app, you need to find a way to convert text into speech (TTS) and eventually provide it in a sound format (like MP3) that can be played back on end-users’ devices. While some operating systems […]
Prevent automounting volumes in OS X
f you have multiple hard drives connected to your Mac, or maybe you have multiple partitions on a single hard drive, by default, OS-X will mount all those volumes at boot time. In case you don’t want this to happen, and instead mount one only on-demand, when needed, maybe with Disk Utility, here is what […]
How to remotely access a Mac behind a corporate firewall
Accessing your Mac remotely isn’t really that difficult, if it weren’t for your resident IT-Department. You could simply open System Preferences / Sharing, enable ARD (Apple Remote Desktop) and check the VNC viewer checkbox. By doing so, your Mac starts listing on port 5900 and you could access it via any VNC viewer, like Chicken of the VNC (for […]