Startup Sound

[Phil St. Romain]

If you're one of those people who likes a startup sound when the OS is finishing booting (as in Windows), you can now have startup sounds for OS X.

Quick Startup Sound (http://www.coolmedia.de/quickstartupsound/index.html) enables you to use any mp3, wave, aiff or other sound files as startup sounds. It's a very small app, stable, and is free.

The web page also has references to other startup sound apps and links to pages with sounds.

[brodie]

as in windoze, uuuurrrgghhh:eek:

[Phil St. Romain]

Ha brodie. Actually, I've used this in Mac for years, dropping a System 7 sound into the Startup Items of OS 7 - 9. My favorite: the first two opening stanzas of Beethoven's Fifth. :)

[brodie]

theres a nice itunes alarm clock, script on versiontracker which you might be interested in then.

[crazy_canuck]

Originally posted by Phil St. Romain
If you're one of those people who likes a startup sound when the OS is finishing booting (as in Windows), you can now have startup sounds for OS X.

Quick Startup Sound (http://www.coolmedia.de/quickstartupsound/index.html) enables you to use any mp3, wave, aiff or other sound files as startup sounds. It's a very small app, stable, and is free.

The web page also has references to other startup sound apps and links to pages with sounds.
You can kinda tell when its finished loading you know.

[Phil St. Romain]

Sure, crazy_. It's one of those "just for fun" kind of things. :)

[Craig R. Arko]

And comes in handy when remotely rebooting the machine in the next room, too. :D

[crazy_canuck]

Originally posted by Craig R. Arko
And comes in handy when remotely rebooting the machine in the next room, too. :D
yeah that's true

[mackid97140]

How do you remotely reboot a computer?

[djn1]

Originally posted by mackid97140
How do you remotely reboot a computer?
Remote Apple Events from a networked machine, trip the power, a very long stick. I wouldn't recommend the second option, and the third one isn't all that good either :D

[mackid97140]

I'm assuming the remote apple events is an applescript. What would you have to type to get it to work over the network. If your at "Computer A" and you want "Computer B" to shut down, you can't just say shut down computer in your script. You have to specify the networked computer. How do you do that?

[djn1]

Originally posted by mackid97140
I'm assuming the remote apple events is an applescript. What would you have to type to get it to work over the network. If your at "Computer A" and you want "Computer B" to shut down, you can't just say shut down computer in your script. You have to specify the networked computer. How do you do that?
Have a look at this hint (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020914091607912) - it should help.

[mackid97140]

I have this:

tell application "Finder" of machine "eppc://192.168.1.100"
sleep
end tell

and i get a message saying "can't get the applications event directory.

[djn1]

Did you try it as an osascript from Terminal or just as an applescript?

[Accura]

Ok, james' hints on using remote apple events.

Do not store the password in the keychain, from using this in mac os x.2.6 i had AEServer (the Apple Events Server) crashing on me.

Also you should tell the apple script to use a local dictionary, to do that do this

try
using terms from application "iTunes"
tell application "iTunes" of machine "eppc://192.168.0.254"
next track
end tell
end using terms from
end try

if you need to have a script that will not ask for a password you can use

tell application "iTunes" of machine "eppc://username:password@192.168.0.254"


but remember if you save it as anything other than an application others can open the script and see your password. I'm also not sure that even if it is saved as an application that they can't see it.

It would be nice for apple to fix there keychain support for this but we can only hope.

I use RAE to remotely control an g3 playing mp3's, i've got it set up so the media keys on my logic-tech keyboard controls the remote machine. I've also got a konfabulator widget that displays the song playing on the remote machine and basic iTunes controls like the volume
jameso

EDITED :P (for USERNAME:PASSWORD) becomes a smily so i had to disable them