[mac4theblind] Re: A nice little app to turn off the Mac OSX Chine sound when booting/restarting up
- From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 20:58:56 -0700
Yes it will. the lst one that should hve appeared was the one on receipt og.
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Take care.
On May 31, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Daniel McGee wrote:
> cool, Sarah will your podcast appear in itunes? The last one I listened to
> was you talking about the accessibility issues of iCloud.
>
> Enjoy your sleep! Its 6:25PM over here in the UK so not quite there yet! Grin
>
> Daniel
> On 31 May 2012, at 16:41, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>
>> I have trained myself to hear newonces like that since I owned a computer in
>> 2001. and when in doubt I use a dynamic coil and amp both cheap and both you
>> can buy from radio shack. lol!
>>
>> I also turned off my start up sound a few times using the app that I'm going
>> to post about tomorrow when the podcast gets uploaded as I'm asleep and I
>> have my mac do maintenance stuff and I don't want to hear the bong when I'm
>> sleeping lol!
>>
>> Take care.
>> On May 31, 2012, at 12:16 AM, Tracy Duffy wrote:
>>
>>> I run an Imac and I can just barely hear when it's running, and that's only
>>> if the room I'm in is completely quiet. If there's any sound at all, like
>>> my refrigerator running in the kitchen, I can't hear the computer at all.
>>> The only things that tell me it's running sometimes is VoiceOver and the
>>> fact that the screen gets warm. When I first booted it up, I wondered if
>>> there was something wrong with it. LOL!
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 30, 2012, at 10:48 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
>>>
>>>> You can hear the had, yet say you have hearing problems? Wow! At least
>>>> in my experience, the hd on my macbook is hardly even audible! Or is my
>>>> hearing really just that bad as well.
>>>>
>>>> Chris.
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Alawami" <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:45 PM
>>>> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: A nice little app to turn off the Mac OSX
>>>> Chine sound when booting/restarting up
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> for me I know the sound of my hd so well I can tell when somethign is
>>>> going to brake. and I know the feel of the vibrations of it to. I know Im
>>>> odd but I've had to compensate over the last few months. lol! and I'm
>>>> always ina quiet place where the bong is so loud the prof can hear it. lol!
>>>> On May 30, 2012, at 6:29 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think my only concern with this is, if you cannoht see the screen to
>>>>> know that the OS, and even more so the EFI is working, I would want to
>>>>> hear that chime. To me, that is kind a my confirmation that things are
>>>>> working. I'll admit it could be a bit less abrasive, but I'd rather hear
>>>>> it at all, than not. To not hear it would creep me out.
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris.
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Alawami" <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:20 PM
>>>>> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: A nice little app to turn off the Mac OSX
>>>>> Chine sound when booting/restarting up
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Not yet. I need it on as I'm having hearingissues and i need things to
>>>>> be farily loud for now but it doe ssound like a neat little app in case
>>>>> I'm in a lecture hall and need to start this old machine lol!
>>>>>
>>>>> Take care.
>>>>> On May 30, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Daniel McGee wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Glad I could help. Sarah, have you used this app that I've found?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Daniel ?
>>>>>> On 30 May 2012, at 17:59, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nice. there was a app similar except you could change the volume of
>>>>>>> said mac start up sound i did a podcast on it and I migh tput it up
>>>>>>> again and have people test it out.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Take care and thanks.
>>>>>>> On May 30, 2012, at 8:33 AM, Daniel McGee wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hey all, I have found a nice little app that can turn off the mac
>>>>>>>> startup sound should one so desire. It is called StartNinja google it
>>>>>>>> and you should find it. Unfortunatly I don't know if it will work for
>>>>>>>> snow leopard or previous versions but I do know it works for Lion
>>>>>>>> which is the OS I have.
>>>>>>>> Anyway for what its worth to me it seemed fully accessible with
>>>>>>>> Voiceover. Install the app through the normally manner open it and you
>>>>>>>> will see the following. Get current settings which is a button
>>>>>>>> followed by an image which has no help tag. This is where you get to
>>>>>>>> the two radio buttons which are simply On and Off. That's basically it
>>>>>>>> there is an unlabelled button or it might be two but I just want to to
>>>>>>>> draw your attention to a thing I didn't discover. This is that when
>>>>>>>> you 1st open the app, 1st of all hit the Get current settings button
>>>>>>>> this will ask you for your password type it in then check the radio
>>>>>>>> button called Off. The reason I'm saying all this is because at 1st I
>>>>>>>> just asumed that oh I can just turn it off that didn't work so I then
>>>>>>>> turned it back on. Trying both these didn't turn off the chine until I
>>>>>>>> hit that button. Once I did that and then turned it off the chine was
>>>>>>>> gone!
>>>>>>>> My reason for mentioning this little app is because if you are like me
>>>>>>>> and know nothing about terminal and scared to issue any commands in
>>>>>>>> that environment in case you mess up your computer and you want to get
>>>>>>>> rid of the chine for some reason or another then this app might be for
>>>>>>>> you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hope I have helped someone if not then just ignore this message
>>>>>>>> completely!
>>>>>>>>
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