Category Archives: Operating System

An operating system (OS) is a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs ( Wikipedia )

Apple Script Execution of Start Word Suggestions for Wordle Tutorial

It’s 2022 as we write this blog post and these days your macOS operating systems no longer present you with the chance to create desktop shortcuts that run a program with user defined arguments. But there is still Apple Script … Continue reading

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English Word Guessing Game MAMP Tutorial

Onto yesterday’s English Word Guessing Game Dropdown Tutorial with today’s “MAMP” idea, what’s MAMP? It’s our favourite PHP supporting Apache/PHP/MySql local web server, which we use as a testing environment ahead of deploying web applications such as the changed what_is_the_english_word.php‘s … Continue reading

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PHP macOS say Supervisor Modes of Use Tutorial

After yesterday’s Making of Siri on iPhone Plays Spotify Song via macOS say Tutorial, today we turn back to the PHP code that started our foray into “Siri meets say” thought patterns. It seems a bit strange to be talking … Continue reading

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MacOS Text to Audio Scheduling Tutorial

Way back when MacOS Text to Audio Primer Tutorial introduced our changed inhouse macos_say_record.php MacOS Text to Audio online PHP supervisor in its initial form, using PHP exec conduit to the macOS command line say command. Since then, its “brief” … Continue reading

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Linux Type Ahead Buffer Primer Tutorial

Lots of operating system command lines offer a “type ahead buffer”. We can think of operating system command lines for … Linux or unix macOS or Mac OS X Open VMS or VAX/VMS Windows via DOS … that have good … Continue reading

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Screenshot macOS Utility Primer Tutorial

We find using this macOS based MacBook Air (and ahead of that a Mac OS X based MacBook Pro), that the taking of screenshots is incredibly useful in helping explain goings on in I.T.. The Mac woooooorrrrrllllldddd has always been … Continue reading

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C Recursion Find Revisit Tutorial

Yesterday’s C Recursion Revisit Tutorial had us finding a macOS Xcode produced executable via the command line “find” command. We find this excellent “find” command trades off the time it takes for the convenience to the user. And this came … Continue reading

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C Recursion Revisit Tutorial

Back in October, 2013 we presented C Recursion Primer Tutorial as a C++ ( but really just straight C code) Xcode (IDE) project on Mac OS X. That’s a long time ago, looking at it from late in 2021. So … Continue reading

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