I have a VERY stuid question...

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oh boy, im sooo happy! Just plugged my imac! Ive been waiting for this moment for years and years! :D

With that said, I have a stupid question! A couple of years ago a firend bought a 17" imac and when he pressed ESC and said TELL ME A JOKE the mac would tell him a joke! Is that still available? how does it work?

i know its silly... :Smirk:
 
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You have to turn on Speakable Items (System Preferences>Speech). It allows you to do a lot of things by voice commands besides asking for jokes :p
 
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Silly, stupid, yes. Neat, of course.

It's in the Speech Recognition pane of System preferences. You can turn it on, then when it's listening say 'Computer, tell me a joke' and it'll tell you a joke (apparently a knock knock joke) with the text to speech voice.

It's one of the little things.
 
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Silly, stupid, yes. Neat, of course.

It's in the Speech Recognition pane of System preferences. You can turn it on, then when it's listening say 'Computer, tell me a joke' and it'll tell you a joke (apparently a knock knock joke) with the text to speech voice.

It's one of the little things.

Oh that is so cool...is that available on Macbooks as well?
 
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Oh that is so cool...is that available on Macbooks as well?

Yeah it is, I just tried it. Had no idea that was there. Not as cool as you think really...I turned it back off after about 10 seconds.
 
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yeah, my jokes were lame
 

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