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  █▌                        -   FUN ON THE TERMINAL  -                       █▌
 █▌                              FOR MAC OS X ONLY                            █▌
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 █ On the other Terminal Fun pages there is for Mac also, just here is for    ▐▌
 █ Mac Only. Aren't you special :p.                                           ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ MAKE YOUR MAC SPEAK & SING                                                 ▐▌
 █ MAC OS X CALENDAR & THEN SOME                                              ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
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 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ MAKE YOUR MAC SPEAK & SING:                                                ▐▌
 █ Open your terminal window (Applications/Utilities/Terminal). Copy/paste    ▐▌
 █ in then press your Enter key:                                              ▐▌
 █ say Hi mewbies!                                                            ▐▌
 █ Press Ctrl+c to exit say mode if stuck.                                    ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ Alex is the default. There are many voices to select from -                ▐▌
 █ Applications/System Preferences/Speech/Text to Speech/                     ▐▌
 █ You can also change the speed of the voice there.                          ▐▌
 █     MALE:      FEMALE:      NOVELTY:      NOVELTY:      NOVELTY:           ▐▌
 █     alex       agnes        albert        bubbles       'pipe organ'       ▐▌
 █     bruce      kathy       'bad news'     cellos        trinoids           ▐▌
 █     fred       princess     bahh          deranged      whisper            ▐▌
 █     junior     vicki        bells         'good news'   zarvox             ▐▌
 █     ralph      victoria     boing         hysterical                       ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ To select a voice use the switch -v [voice] [text].                        ▐▌
 █ For example:                                                               ▐▌
 █ say -v bubbles Hi mewbies!                                                 ▐▌
 █ You can also input a file to read out using -f, for example:               ▐▌
 █ say -f myfile.txt                                                          ▐▌
 █ You can create an audio (.aiff) file from a plain text using the -o        ▐▌
 █ (output):                                                                  ▐▌
 █ say -o myfile_recording.aiff -f myfile.txt                                 ▐▌
 █ Or typed in text:                                                          ▐▌
 █ say -o mewbies.aiff -v hysterical mewbies                                  ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ There are many more options and formats that the audio can be saved in:    ▐▌
 █ man say                                                                    ▐▌
 █ Press q to quit man window.                                                ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ To make your Mac sing I have a list below, that I found HERE, for you to   ▐▌
 █ try out; copy/paste each one (each one is only one line, no breaks) into   ▐▌
 █ your terminal.                                                             ▐▌
 █ Tip: Paste into Mac terminal the contents of your clipboard you can use:   ▐▌
 █ pbpaste  (Copy to clip board is pbcopy).                                   ▐▌
 
   

    
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   How do you pronounce 'Mac OS X'? Let Alex teach you the correct way:
   say Mac OS X

   

 █ Thanks to online-convert.com for converting the audio files.               ▐▌
 █                          ___________..___________                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ MAC OS X CALENDAR & THEN SOME:                                             ▐▌
 █ ``````````````````````````````                                             ▐▌
 █ Mac Calendar comes with five FreeBSD calendar files listing various dates  ▐▌
 █ in history.                                                                ▐▌
 █ ls /usr/share/calendar/                                                    ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ FAMOUS PEOPLE'S BIRTHDATES:                                                ▐▌
 █ Example view a month/day (American format) like your birthday:             ▐▌
 █ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.birthday | grep 01/10                     ▐▌
 █ 01/10  Ethan Allen born, 1738                                              ▐▌
 █ Spoiler: Click HERE to view file.                                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ COMPUTER HISTORY:                                                          ▐▌
 █ Search by date For example:                                                ▐▌
 █ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history | grep 04/03                      ▐▌
 █ 04/03  IBM 701 introduced, 1953                                            ▐▌
 █ Spoiler: Click HERE to view file.                                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ EVENTS IN HISTORY:                                                         ▐▌
 █ Search by date or name, for example:                                       ▐▌
 █ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history | grep William                    ▐▌
 █ 04/26  William Shakespeare baptized in Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564... ▐▌
 █ 10/14  Battle of Hastings won by William the Conqueror and the Normans,... ▐▌
 █ Spoiler: Click HERE to view file.                                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ MILESTONES IN MUSIC:                                                       ▐▌
 █ Search by date For example:                                                ▐▌
 █ cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.music | grep 01/10                        ▐▌
 █ 01/10  Blues guitarist Howlin' Wolf dies in Chicago, 1976                  ▐▌
 █ 01/10  Jim Croce is born in Philadelphia, 1943                             ▐▌
 █ 01/10  Pat Benatar is born in Long Island, 1952                            ▐▌
 █ 01/10  Rod Stewart is born in Glasgow, Scotland, 1945                      ▐▌
 █ Spoiler: Click HERE to view file.                                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ MOTD (Message Of The Day):                                                 ▐▌
 █ Each time your terminal is launched you could be greeted by the events     ▐▌
 █ that match today's date from all the calendars:                            ▐▌
 █ Launch Terminal then type in:                                              ▐▌
 █ nano ~/.bash_profile                                                       ▐▌
 █ (If you haven't created this file (.bash_profile) before it likely won't   ▐▌
 █ exist, it will be blank. By doing this you are actually creating it.)      ▐▌
 █ Then copy/paste the below in at the end of the file (if nothing is on the  ▐▌
 █ file just paste it in at the top):                                         ▐▌

today=`date "+%m/%d"`
grep $today /usr/share/calendar/calendar.birthday
grep $today /usr/share/calendar/calendar.computer
grep $today /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history
grep $today /usr/share/calendar/calendar.lotr
grep $today /usr/share/calendar/calendar.music

 █ Press keys Ctrl + x, then type in y to save the changes.                   ▐▌
 █ Close Terminal and then relaunch it. It will show all dates from all       ▐▌
 █ those calendars selected that match today's Month/Day. You could even add  ▐▌
 █ your own important dates to any one of those files and or create your own. ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ Btw you can customize this MOTD in endless ways. View my MOTD tutorial     ▐▌
 █ HERE for Debian. Though not for Mac the concept applies much the same and  ▐▌
 █ will provide you with many ideas. Debian users could use these files       ▐▌
 █ Calendar files in the same manner too.                                     ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ PROPER NAMES:                                                              ▐▌
 █ Need help thinking of a baby's name, well try this for a list of 1,323     ▐▌
 █ mostly western names:                                                      ▐▌
 █ For example you want a name that begins with St:                           ▐▌
 █ cat /usr/share/dict/propernames | grep An                                  ▐▌
 █ Anatole                                                                    ▐▌
 █ Anatoly                                                                    ▐▌
 █ Anderson                                                                   ▐▌
 █ Andre                                                                      ▐▌
 █ Andrea                                                                     ▐▌
 █ Andreas                                                                    ▐▌
 █ [snip]                                                                     ▐▌
 █ Spoiler: Click HERE to view file.                                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ Two relic FreeBSD files can be found here:                                 ▐▌
 █ BIRTH TOKEN:                                                               ▐▌
 █ This file list the birthstone and flower for each month.                   ▐▌
 █ For example to view both the birthstone and the flower for January:        ▐▌
 █ cat /usr/share/misc/birthtoken | grep Jan                                  ▐▌
 █ January:Garnet:Carnation                                                   ▐▌
 █ Spoiler: Click HERE to view file.                                          ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ MEANING OF FLOWERS:                                                        ▐▌
 █ To view the meaning of a sunflower for example:                            ▐▌
 █ cat /usr/share/misc/flowers | grep -i Sunflower                            ▐▌
 █ Sunflower:Haughtiness.                                                     ▐▌
 █ Spoiler: Click HERE to view file.                                          ▐▌
 █ These files are actually a part of the text-based (played on terminal)     ▐▌
 █ classic game Quiz. To try to port these to Mac start HERE.                 ▐▌
 █                                                                            ▐▌
 █ For Mac OS X Easter eggs, view my Easter Egg page left menu or click HERE. ▐▌
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 █ If you find mistakes, have suggestions, and or questions please post at    ▐▌
 █ mewbies forum HERE - thank you.                                            ▐▌
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 █ Last update on 29 Apr '13                                                  ▐▌
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