Category: Windows Technologies

Apple, Virtualization, Windows Technologies

Converting USB drive into VMDK (Virtual Hard disk) to attach it as a HDD for Virtual Machine in VirtualBox

As the latest OSes support creating bootable installers out of USB sticks, it now has come a usual case to convert these bootable USB drives into Virtual Hard disks so that you could attach them as bootable disks for installing OSes on virtual environment.  In this example, I’ll providing the steps for setting up this for scenario of converting MAC OS X Mountain Lion USB installer into a VMDK file and attaching it in Virtual Box   Create your Mountain Lion USB Installer stick by using the steps details in Creating MAC OS X Bootable USB Setup Launch VirtualBox as […]

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Windows Technologies

Getting your MS Word to speak/read the contents for you (Read Out Loud also called as TTS Text-To-Speech)

Locate and enable access to Word option called “Speak” from Word Options > All Commands > Speak > Add > OK Now open Word program, select the portion of text that you’d like to have word to read out and then click on Speak button   You can manage the speech settings from Control Panel > “Change text to speech settings” That will open up “Speech Properties” > “Text to Speech” options as shown below where you can change: Voice Selection Voice Speed   Alternatively, you can use Narrator software as well  to read out any content in Windows: Start […]

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Apple, Windows Technologies

Accessing Windows Shares from MAC OS X Systems

If you own both a PC and MAC OS X it’s no wonder that you would come across a need to access your files across these two systems.  Primarily many businesses and/or users would already be running Windows PCs that host large disk space and would like to have access to these shared location from MAC so that they don’t have to buy another storage for MAC.  Here is how you can configure/setup accessing Windows Shares from a MAC OS X systems:   Create a Windows Share that you would like to access from MAC OS X:   Logon to […]

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