Startup chime Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple's Mac startup chime now a registered trademark

by Steven Sande (Dec 12th, 2012)

Ever since the first Mac was sold back in 1984, Apple's computer line has emitted a beep or chime when starting up. It's kind of a way of saying "Hello" to you while letting you know that the computer is going to start going through its boot process. That startup chime is now a registered ...

StartupSound.prefPane

by Scott McNulty (Dec 28th, 2006)

This one is for all you folks who hate the OS X startup sound. StartupSound.prefPane allows you to control the volume of the startup chime on any Mac running OS X 10.4 or later. This little prefPane is in beta, and the developer recommends that you back up your important data before you install it ...