Reader Stephen Mette faces the age-old problem of how to shut up the Mac when it first boots. He writes: I’ve always loved the Mac’s opening chime. But I’m the early riser in my family, and the volume ...
Fed up with your Mac making a deafening noise every time you start it up? Waking up your partner? Even worse, waking the baby! Or, horror of horrors, alerting your colleagues to the fact that you only ...
One of the things that makes a Mac a Mac is the beautiful startup sound it makes when you turn it on: a soothing, sonorous noise that sounds like electronic harp strings being plucked as you enter the ...
The iconic Mac startup sound has evolved over the years, but it is a distinctive part of being a Mac user. Sometimes, though, you just want to boot your Mac up silently. You can keep it from sounding ...
That familiar and, dare I say, invigorating chime that signals the startup of your Mac computer is officially dead, at least on the new MacBook Pro. SEE ALSO: MacBook Pro hands-on: The Touch Bar is ...
A fun piece from CNBC this morning highlights Jim Reekes, a former Apple employee who created numerous sound effects for the Mac during his time at Apple. Reekes left ...
In the late 1980s Jim Reekes began working as a sound designer for Apple, creating some of the Mac's most iconic sounds like the "Sosumi" beep, startup chord, and camera/screenshot click. In a new ...
Boot up your computer. If you’re the owner of one of the more than two hundred million Macs sold, what’s the first thing you hear when you start or restart your machine? That sound tells you you’ve ...
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