This voice is free for students with a scottish educational email address. You will need to fill in a short form. Download The Scottish Voice. To activate in Read & Write: Install the voice. On the Read & Write toolbar there is Play icon and next to it a small arrow which activates a drop down… Continue reading Free Scottish accented voice for Read & Write
Tag: Mac
Check the warranty status of your Mac, iPhone, iPod, iPhone or other Apple device
You can find the warranty status by going to this link and putting in your serial number. Click “See how” underneath for help finding the serial.
File not found when opening files from Mac hard drive using Parallels
Problem In Parallels, when you try to open a file from your Mac partition, it says “file not found”. Solution Check that the filename and all folder names it is contained within are not using an characters not supported by Windows such as an asterisks (*), quotation marks (“) or double spacing. For a list of unsupported… Continue reading File not found when opening files from Mac hard drive using Parallels
Asked for password of a user in the _lpadmin group when using a printer
Problem When attempting to add/remove a printer, change printer settings or pause/resume a print queue it may ask you to enter a username and password of the _lpadmin group with the following message: “Type the name and password of a user in the “_lpadmin” group to allow [printer name] to make changes.” Solution Logon as… Continue reading Asked for password of a user in the _lpadmin group when using a printer
Boot Camp slow and takes a long time to defragment (FAT32)
Problem When running Windows using BootCamp it runs slow and takes a very long time to defragment with the hard disk formatted with the FAT32 file system. Solution Convert your Windows partition from FAt32 to NTFS.