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Vox Pop: What's your "Mac Whine?"
Merlin Mann | Feb 28 2007
We've started a new feature over on MacBreak Weekly that I really hope becomes a regular thing: "_Mac Whines_!" Yeah, sure, I'm an unapologetic Apple fanboy (I, mean duh), but some stuff about my Mac experience makes me crazy. Have you got a beef with your Mac or OS X you want to shout from the shiny counter of the "Genius" Bar? Yeah, me too. I'll open with:
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 "Why do we have universal...Submitted by nex (not verified) on March 1, 2007 - 2:06pm.
"Why do we have universal volume control and volume controls within apps?" So you can choose whether you want to make one app louder/softer in relation to the others, or to adjust the overall volume (e.g. turn it back up again after the boss has walked out). This is children's stuff, though. I like mapping different apps to different sets of speakers, so I can crank up the iTunes on the big boxes without worrying that the next e-mail that arrives triggers a notification sound that blasts my ears out. This is far more convenient than having to adjust the volume of all open apps every time. I virtually never fiddle with an individual app's volume setting any longer, at most I set it once and leave it there. It would be neat if OS X had better built-in support for that. » POSTED IN:
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