Os X

One solution to avoiding that chime on booting your mac is to hold down the F3 key at startup. A more permanent solution is offered through the StartupSoundPrefPane which is described in more detail here.

I tried to update to 10.4.9 yesterday, but got an error message, and when booting everything hangs. I haven’t found a good solution yet, but at least I came across a list of useful startup keys, some of them being: C : Forces most Macs to boot from the CD-Rom drive instead of the internal hard drive. Only works with Apple ROM drives and with bootable CD discs. D : Forces the first internal hard drive to be the startup disk....

I learn new things every day. Gisela just sent me a hint about putting those super-long URLs between brackets to avoid breaking the URL when the line is wrapped in an e-mail application: <http://www.somesite.com/a/really/long/url>

Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Set headphone volume level on Intel Macs If you’ve got a new Intel-powered Mac, here’s a feature you may not have even known you had. For years, all Macs have had the ability to have different volume levels for different inputs. Plug in a USB-powered iMic, for instance, and you can set its output volume level independently of that of your internal speakers.