can my mac chime on the hour?

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can my mac chime on the hour?

Is there a way to have my mac chime on the hour (or quarter hour, or whatever). I used to be able to do this with OS 9. It seems all I can do via the "Date and Time" control panel is have one of the goofy (or creepy) system voices tell me the time at specified intervals. There are some gorgeous sound files out there just begging to be made into clock chimes.

Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.4) 1Gb RAM, 160 Gb ext firewire drive

Posted on Feb 2, 2006 9:19 PM

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Mac-Medic

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Feb 2, 2006 10:05 PM in response to ds store

Here is a shareware for that.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10419

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ds store

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Feb 2, 2006 9:26 PM in response to visiondr

Yes, Applescript can help you there, I'm not so good at it yet.

But you can make a startup script that will run and then do the chiming.

You can search Macupdate.com for a utility too.

if your not cloning your boot drive, you should be

http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/Personal6.html

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visiondr Author

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Feb 3, 2006 11:07 PM in response to Mac-Medic

Thanks for the suggestion. I was hoping for something that wasn't just another app I'd have to put in my startup items list and keep running constantly. A control panel would be a better, less RAM-hungry, solution IMHO.

Mac Mini Mac OS X (10.4.4) 1Gb RAM, 160 Gb ext firewire drive

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ds store

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Feb 2, 2006 10:22 PM in response to Mac-Medic

Darn, I had that too, but somehow got a wrong description so I didn't post it.

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