mac wont stop talking and my preferences keeps shutting down so i cant stop it my cat wals walking over my keyboard and now it wont stop talking to me and i cant open speech preferences
Info:GarageBand '09, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I accidentally pressed some buttons and I am not sure what I pressed, but now what ever I do, or click on, my mac says what I am doing, and it is annoying. how do i stop this?
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Either I hit some sort of hot key or my computer is now possessed by a Speak and Spell. Everything I do is spoken by my computer. I tried going to the Speech section in the system pref's but that isn't helping. How do I turn this off?
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Mac OS X (10.4.7)
I do not want to create a pause in a text to speech document. I want to be able to stop the system from talking for a moment until I'm ready to resume listening. Does anyone know if there's a "pause" button?
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G5 dual 2.5
Mac OS X (10.3.x)
You can automatically shut down or start up your mac at anytime you like.
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Has anyone figure out how to stop that annoying loop in system preferences that says settings have been changed??I can get out of it by a two handed click on the OK button and locations but then it just comes back. I don't want to delete all the info on there and have to retype in.I'm only finding old posts back in 2008 on this! Am I that far behind??I was hoping a permanent easy fix has been found by now. I haven't had the need to get into System pref.
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OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), Mac mini i5 2.5GHz & iMac FCP X
Not I try to shut down my mac but when I press shut down the rainbow circle comes and it dosen't shut down, Some rimes I have to open app and shut it down again, the only programmes that are open when I shut down are Safari and Skype.
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Info:Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I upgraded my PowerBook G4 from Tiger to Leopard yesterday. Before the upgrade Airport was working just fine. I cleared my hard drive then installed Leopard, and now any time I start a download my Airport shuts down. In order to complete a download I have to turn off Airport, turn it back on, let it work for about 5 seconds, then repeat the process until it finishes. It's obviously a problem with Airport because it does the same thing in both Safari and Firefox.
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When my Macbook pro is not plugged in, and i try to watch videos, it shuts down like it dies, even if it says the battery is 90%. Is it a battery issue? Or some other type of issue? Bought it in late 2008..
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I am playing with my new MBP and wanted to know if iCHAT supports talking to buddies from Yahoo Messenger too, just like it does for AIM? I got the AIM one to work, and it says something about something called Bonjour (?) but nothing about Yahoo? Please let me know how to set this up as possible, that way I won't need separate programs for AIM and Yahoo Messenger. PS- Does windows media player have a program for MACs? If not, whats the best program similar to Windows Media Player that I can use to view all the same video types as that?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I need to update from OS X 10.5.8 Leopard to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on my MB Pro. (2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB SDRAM) Before I begin, can anyone tell me if there is a good way to keep my system preferences and applications preferences without having to "start over" after the system upgrade? Will I have to reinstall every piece of software?
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MacBook Pro (17-inch 2.4 GHz), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I have just recently upgraded to Lion and created a Snow Leopard partition to run some of my old pieces of music software. I've got a bit of annoying problem where I can't chnge the mouse preferences in the Snow Leopard partition. I can change the dropdown boxes to set the right click etc. and they stay populated all the while that System Preferences is open. However, the funcitonality of the buttons does not change and when closing and re-opening System Preferences the dropdowns are populated with the default options again.
I've tried deleting SystemPreferences.plist but this hasn't helped. EDIT: I've also removed the Documents and Downloads stacks from my dock and since restarting these have appeared again. As has the System Preferences icon in the Dock. It seems to be more widespread than just mouse preferences.
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iMac 2.8GHz 2GB, Logic 8.0.2, Mac OS X (10.6.8), AKAI MPK49, Focusrite Saffire, Tannoy Precision 6Ds
I have an iMac G4 with Leopard, and there seems to be a glitch with my System Preferences. I can lock and password protect all of the panes available as I would normally. I have however discovered an issue. These locks seem to unlock themselves after powering back on. I'm not sure if the same happens upon logging back in, as I never log out to start with. Any solutions for this? Better yet, am I the only one who experiences this?
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iMac, iOS 5.1
I'm on 10.6.8 Snow Leopard and when I click on Networks tab in System Preferences it freezes at Loading Network..
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Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I'm doing technical support for mac users of our java application. One user's problem is that the app doesn't launch. At first, I thought his version of java is not updated but told me that it is updated based on the Software Update. Then I thought the problem's here is that the JRE's not turned on so I made him open the Java Preferences. But sadly, this doesn't open too. I made him gave me the logs on the Console to check the error.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Intel Core 2 Duo Processor - 2GB Ra
i lost my ssystem preferences on my macbook pro snaow leaopard. How do i get it back
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Suddenly in the last few weeks my Safari preferences won't stay. I set a home page and "a new window opens with the same page" and within a few minutes, Safari has forgotten it and when I open Safari I just get a blank page. I have tried deleting the com.apple.Safari.plist file which works temporarily, then it forgets everything again.I am also having a problem with my monitors holding a calibration. I use a monitor test kit and the monitors aren't retaining the icc profile information. I mention this as it could be related??I have a Mac Pro 3,1 with a quad-cor intel Xeon running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I cannot access account preferences, it only shows a blank window.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Why my system preferences not responding (display & screensaver) and my mail doesn't received all mails?
Info:iMac (27-inch Mid 2011)
