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Finally something that works like in windows. Volume Mixer for Mac lives in your menu bar. With simple features like muting apps by double clicking and detaching an app from the master volume by right clicking, Volume Mixer is easy to learn and simple to use. Reader Alec Saunders sounds off on turning sound off for specific applications. He writes: I was wondoring if there was a way to disable sound in certain applications. On your Mac, choose Apple menu System Preferences, click Sound, then click Output. Select the device you want to use in the list of sound output devices. All sound output devices available to your Mac are listed, including the computer’s internal speakers, devices plugged into your computer’s sound port , USB speakers, and AirPlay devices.
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Unclutter features
Sticky notes on Mac desktop
This clipboard notes app is a handy tool for note taking. Create as many notes as you wish for better organization all of your content. Use the quick full-text search to get the note you need within seconds. Unclutter is your full-featured memo assistant, which reminds you of the things you don’t want to miss.
Smart Mac clipboard history manager
Keep track of everything you copy to your Mac's clipboard. Have a glance at the list of recent clips and if needed, instantly recall any of them. Even once the Mac clipboard manager app is relaunched or the system is rebooted, you’ll still have the history of clips. You can also make a separate list to permanently save particular clips for future use.
A handy place to store files and notes
Creating temporary folders and misplacing your transient files is so 20th century. Use this app as a daily storage of notes and files that you need on a regular basis. Create a shortcut to store the stuff you often use. Plus, it’ll be also great if you need a drop area to instantly drag text, links, or files between different apps.
Highly customizable panels
Set the widths of panels by dragging the splitter between them. Rearranging the panels is ease, simply drag them. Take a panel outside the window and it will stick on top of other windows until you close it. To get more space for the regularly used ones, hide the panels you seldom use.
Launch at startup
You can store a bunch of different items, including files, images, and notes. Adjust the automatically relaunch option to make Unclutter run each time the computer gets rebooted. In that way, every time you open your Mac, the app with all the stuff you need will be at your fingertips.
Auto-synced across all Macs via Dropbox
Enjoy a piece of mind that all your content is auto-synced across all your Dropbox-connected devices. Any Dropbox owner can use it to create a folder to store Unclutter files and notes. This way, all of your content will be easily accessible from any place with Internet connection.
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Sometimes it's best for your Mac to be seen and not heard. Applications and services often make a sound associated with their notification, but did you know that sound can be deactivated? Here's how.
First of all, you can always mute the audio on your Mac all together — and sometimes that's a good idea. But other times you may want to hear audio from some apps (like iTunes, for example), but you may want to selectively shut off notification noises from others.
It's pretty easy to tailor these sorts of sounds, though it can be an arduous process. Here's how to get started.
To turn off notification sounds on your Mac
- Click on the menu.
- Select System Preferences....
- Click on Notifications.
- Click on the name of the app whose behavior you'd like to modify.
- Uncheck Play sound for notifications.
That'll do it. Now you'll continue to get alerts from the application, but you'll be free of any annoying notification noises associated with it.
I said it's an arduous process up front. That's because Notification Center in OS X doesn't give a global setting to shut off audio notifications from all apps. You'll need to click on each individual application in that list inside the Notifications system preference and uncheck the Play sound for notifications preference to shut them all up. But this does give you fine control over what can and can't make noise at you while you're using your Mac.
This won't shut off all sound from those applications — if they're active, and sound is part of what they do, they'll continue to make noise. But if you find the constant 'ding' of incoming mail to be distracting, for example, this is an easy way to shut that off without taking away from the auditory experience of the rest of your Mac.
Any questions? Let me know!
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