Mute the Mac startup sound for good
The Mac is nice! The startup sound on Mac is a pain in the ass! Until today I have had to live with this annoying chime each time I boot the Mac. There is no way to turn it off out of the box! The only thing you can do is to mute your Mac before you shut it down and it will boot silently the next time. Who remembers that?? Often you just want to be discreet when booting up at the office and similar places. I just found a solution: Download and install StartupSound.prefPane. With this handy utility you can control the startup sound independently from the system volume. The preference pane looks like this:
