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Indexing Google Drive in Spotlight for Mac OS

If you use Google Drive on Mac OS (formerly named Drive File Stream), you might be having a hard time finding documents and folders in Spotlight. It is quite an easy problem to solve.

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Mac OS CLI : making your Mac speak via command line

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With the so convenient command “Say” on Mac OS, you can easily get your computer to read any text to you. Or for that matter, make another computer read text by sending a simple command line via Apple Remote Desktop.

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Mac OS CLI : change system volume by command line

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Since I have to do remote desktop control over a lot of computers using Mac OS or warn of an upcoming update, I began using Mac’s speakers to address the users. Obviously it is useless to speak to a user whose speakers are muted.. so I decided to change the system volume via CLI.

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How to Flush Mac OS DNS Cache

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If you ever need to flush the DNS cache of Mac OS X there are several command lines to do so or a little utility