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Mute the Mac startup sound for good

October 23, 2007 at 7:32 am · Filed under Software / hardware

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: 

StartupSound.prefPane


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Quicksilver on Mac - Colibri or Launchy on Windows

October 19, 2007 at 7:30 am · Filed under Software / hardware

I've been using Quicksilver on my Macbook Pro for a while. This is a very nice utility for application launching and productivity in general. Recently I installed a Boot camp partitition with Vista, but I really consider removing Vista and return to XP because of performance issues. Vista is so slow to boot up and Exlorer just crashes randomly. But with my return to XP I'm going to miss some kind of application launcher. Vista got the Start Search feature which is kind of nice. I found two nice applications almost like Quicksilver that works great on Windows: Launchy and Colibri. Go check them out if you are using XP and don't like to manually search through your Start Menu for the application you need!


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