Learned this from MacWorld. If you have a mac keyboard there are volume control keys (on the latest keyboards F10 is mute, F11 is quieter, F12 is louder) that pop up this display showing the volume level with those little squares. If you use shift-option with F11 and F12 they will move in 1/4 increments giving you finer volume control.Here are some other tricks. Just the option key with any of these keys will open the Sound System Preferences. Just the shift key with these keys will not play the "plink" sound on volume changes. If in the Sound System Preferences you have Play feedback when volume is changed unchecked, then using shift will make the "plink" sound.
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I'm slow. That totally didn't work on my MacBook... probably because my volume buttons aren't on F10/11. Sigh. There goes yet another attempt at procrastinating on writing my thesis.
Are you on Leopard? It's new in 10.5.
Has anyone found a way to control the volume based on the application? For example, I would like to turn off the sound on my browser and e-mail but keep the sound on for iTunes and Adium
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