Filed under: Audio, Fun, Text, Macintosh
Voicebox 1.4 still a winner
by Vince Veneziani Jul 12th 2005
Voicebox is one of those little utilities we all eventually find and then fall in love with. Voicebox just converts text into speech via an .aiff file. But oh how nice it works! It's one simple window with a big text box for typing. It then has a drop down box for choosing one of the many built-in voices for Mac OS X. You can adjust the pitch and speed of the text being spoken as well. Plus it ends up being exported as a simple .aiff file. Perfect. The
shareware version only allows you to have 20 words of text spoken. Of course if you really wanted to you could just keep doing 20 word files and then mixing them together in another program, but I personally think it's worth paying for. Great for electronic artists who want fake robots talking over their songs or for radio. They stopped development it looks like at 1.4, but go check it out and see for yourself!
shareware version only allows you to have 20 words of text spoken. Of course if you really wanted to you could just keep doing 20 word files and then mixing them together in another program, but I personally think it's worth paying for. Great for electronic artists who want fake robots talking over their songs or for radio. They stopped development it looks like at 1.4, but go check it out and see for yourself!
been out, many people have just simply stopped using iChatStatus. iChat 3.0 comes with the option of displaying your iTunes music track while you're chatting. Plus, iChatStatus hasn't been updated in quite awhile. Sorry iChatStatus. You were good to us before you got mauled to death. We salute you!
Yes. You're reading right. Blizzard released an update for Starcraft: Brood War. A seven year old game that the company is still backing. Way to go. The update fixes some bugs and online play problems. They also "fixed a typo." Clearly that was needed. Your units displayed within the minimap will now always be on top to ensure that they are not hidden by another player's units. If you still play Starcraft and won't give it up, download the update if you haven't already.
We Mac users always try to stay away from the Microsoft empire as much as possible.However, sometimes we're forced to deal with certain things; in this case, Windows Media Audio. WMA format isn't very good in my opinion. Aside from having DRM 99% of the time and poor quality audio, the compatability issue is the problem. You can only play it in Windows Media Player or a rare ...
Allright, anyone who has ever downloaded movies off P2P will know this. You sometimes just get unplayable, third-world formats. Why? Because people just don't get it, which is something we can't fix. However as far as the movies go, there is hope in the form of VLC Media Player. VLC is the solution for anyone who has had issues with playing movie formats. It's available for a slew of platforms ...
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
