Small software utility to make Mac silent when it is turning on or is waking up.
Has your child ever been awakened with the loud "Ta-Dam!" sound your laptop played when you opened it at late evening? Did you ever open notebook on conference and the computer loudly notifies you about new messages or something? I bet, you wanted to smash the computer into smithereens then. Each time this happens to me, I promise myself to disable the sound before logging off, but I always forget about this in few minutes. So I've created small software utility to make computer silent when it's turning on or is waking up. Solution is very easy. The sound is automatically muted when the computer is turning off or is going to suspend mode. The next system start is absolutely silent even if you forgot to turn the sound off in previous session. After that you can enable sound effects manually, using a shortcut combination. Moreover, you may use this keyboard shortcut to quickly switch the sound on and off.
Tried multiple times but it does NOT mute the startup sound. Checked the preferences and everything was checked but it doesn't work. This is the THIRD app that I have tried (also tried start ninja and another that I can't remember) in order to mute the mac on startup... it actually seems impossible. Apple seem intent to have you advertise MACINTOSH loudly to the library/lecture/sleeping family everytime you startup the computer. Only way to avoid this is to never turn you mac off. At least their batteries are great so this is actually possible, although most computers (macs included) tend to start doing weird things if you don't shut them down for a while...
Simple, and as promised ...
DANIEL WEINSTEIN
Pros
Auto Mutes: No more, but no less.
Cons
None. None.
Summary
Works as I want
karpolan
Pros
Same as Windows edition. I'm using Auto Mute on both systems