Accents on letters on mac

This has all kinds of interesting info.

How to Type Letters with Accents on Mac

I needed to look it up when I found the need to type a word with two dots over the u.

Years from now, (maybe only in a couple of days) I'll wonder what I was typing so I'll mention it here.
I was tracking movies we watched in a spreadsheet since we seemed to be watching a movie or episodes of a series everyday with our Happy Hour and the movie was AClüsterfücke Christmas.

Things Discovered on the Way to Finding Other Things

You can change your text to speech here http://ctrlq.org/listen/

Converting various types of files
http://www.labnol.org/software/how-to-convert-files/19523/
I haven't checked this out yet and it's from 2012 so there may be better options

OS X Mountain Lion: Reinstall OS X and other solutions to frozen iMac

7/20/14

Maybe this would have helped the other 2 times but I had a similar experience this morning.  Last night I had to Force Quit BookWright and instead of reopening it, I shut down the computer and when I started it up this morning it wouldn't boot.  It wouldn't even let me get to the point to reinstall the OS.  It was showing that I needed new batteries for my keyboard/mouse.  I recently replaced the mouse batteries but maybe the reason I couldn't get to the reboot was because the keyboard wasn't working. While I was replacing the batteries and seeing what I could do, I used my laptop to look up why I couldn't get the iMac to boot.  I came across this http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570 and it did the trick.

At first I tried the Soft Boot by holding down the shift key and then it went back to the gray screen with the apple and spinning globe so I shut it off to try the boot where I could see what was going on by holding Shift-Command-V during start up. I liked this much better because it wasn't just looking at a screen, you saw words on what looked like an old DOS type screen.

In reading some of the print out I realized I left the speaker plugged in and quickly whipped it out.  Then a soft reboot - YEA!!  Then a normal restart and I'm back in business.






7/3/14
Thanks to BookWright and maybe my being on it for too long at a time, I've had to reinstall OS X twice in less than 24 hours.  Thought I better put these instructions here in case I forget.