Lantean

This is a nice trick, which can be used in any console script. There is a command named ‘say’, which is the one that does all of the magic. You can use it this way:

echo lantean | say

What’s interesting about this is that you have different voice tone variations. To get a full list, you can do this:

lantean$ say -v ?
Agnes               en_US    # Isn't it nice to have a computer that will talk to you?
Albert              en_US    #  I have a frog in my throat. No, I mean a real frog!
Alex                en_US    # Most people recognize me by my voice.
Bad News            en_US    # The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of a fast approaching train.
Bahh                en_US    # Do not pull the wool over my eyes.
Bells               en_US    # Time flies when you are having fun.
Boing               en_US    # Spring has sprung, fall has fell, winter's here and it's colder than usual.
Bruce               en_US    # I sure like being inside this fancy computer
Bubbles             en_US    # Pull the plug! I'm drowning!
Cellos              en_US    # Doo da doo da dum dee dee doodly doo dum dum dum doo da doo da doo da doo da doo da doo da doo
Deranged            en_US    # I need to go on a really long vacation.
Fred                en_US    # I sure like being inside this fancy computer
Good News           en_US    # Congratulations you just won the sweepstakes and you don't have to pay income tax again.
Hysterical          en_US    # Please stop tickling me!
Junior              en_US    # My favorite food is pizza.
Kathy               en_US    # Isn't it nice to have a computer that will talk to you?
Pipe Organ          en_US    # We must rejoice in this morbid voice.
Princess            en_US    # When I grow up I'm going to be a scientist.
Ralph               en_US    # The sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse.
Trinoids            en_US    # We cannot communicate with these carbon units.
Vicki               en_US    # Isn't it nice to have a computer that will talk to you?
Victoria            en_US    # Isn't it nice to have a computer that will talk to you?
Whisper             en_US    # Pssssst, hey you, Yeah you, Who do ya think I'm talking to, the mouse?
Zarvox              en_US    # That looks like a peaceful planet.

So far, so good. Now, if you actually wanna use one of those voices, you need to specify the -v parameter, just like this:

lantean$ echo "Alala la la long long le long long long" | say -v "Hysterical"

Indeed, we got another OSX update. This time, 10.7.4…. which should fix several vulnerabilities out there. It’s over 700 MB, so it’ll take some time to get downloaded.

If you didn’t already update your mac, it’s time you hit the Software Update button in the Apple menu. I really recommend you do it right away… those Flashback viruses have been giving lots of headache’s.

The cool side about this is that we’re getting closer to getting access to Mountain Lion. And no, i don’t mean to say… ‘access to a developer build’. That’s already there. We’re getting close to the commercial release of ML.. which is pretty cool. I bet you they release ML along with the new MBP & MBA lineup (maybe… the ‘Macbook Air Pro’ lineup…?).

The full release log is right here.

I’ve been reading all over the net an interesting roumor. The next iPhone, AKA ‘iPhone 5’, may be released with a new iteration of our beloved OS… iOS 6. But… what goodie could it introduce?.

Well… the biggest idea around, and i’m posting it because i think there is a big chance it’s actually accurate, would be an in-house Maps app. Why i think this?. Because the current Maps App relies heavily on Google. In fact, it wouldn’t do anything useful if it wasn’t for Google.

And as everybody knows, Google and Apple are on trial for Android. So… if i were them, i’d try to take some distance. To begin with, i’d cut the Google Maps app… it’s the obvious move. Let’s see what happens in October!

This has very little to do with iOS. But i love it anyways.. so here we go!. When i was … less than 4 years old, i was a big fan of the Thundercats. Back then, i had a copy of the Sword of Omens. Never managed to get a glimpse of the real one… wherever it is!.

Last year, Cartoon Network fellows published a reboot of the Thundercats. It’s called ‘Thundercats 2011’. So far, i just love it. The story is a bit different… either way, this re-imagined version is pretty cool.

No. I’m not an anime dude. Furthermore, i don’t usually watch cartoons. But this one is different, because it remind me of the oooooold school toons i used to watch.

I’ve been having this error… A LOT…:

“Couldn’t register com.yourcompany.yourapp with the bootstrap server. Error: unknown error code. This generally means that another instance of this process was already running or is hung in the debugger.”

The bad side of this is that.. ps aux will not show anything useful. Thankfully, Mike Ash has solved this… i’m pasting below his script:

launchctl list|grep UIKitApplication|awk '{print $3}'|xargs launchctl remove

Source: Mike Ash Blog