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StartNinja 1.0.1

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StartNinja starts up your Mac with silence and stealth.

Macs don't have a built-in way to mute or silence the system start-up chime. If you're in a library or coffee shop you don't always want that start up chime to play. Now you can silence the Mac OS X Lion start up chime with StartNinja. It is a free and simple desktop utility that silences the start-up chime and will resume previous sound level after logging in.

Note 1: Does not work with iMacs

Note 2: The system start up chime is played through the internal speaker.

What's New

Version 1.0.1:

Built / code-signed with Apple developer id in accordance with forthcoming MAC OS security functionality.

Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.7 or later

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Bluestar reviewed on 29 Apr 2012

No workie. Macbook Pro 17" late 2011 model with MAC OSX Lion 10.7.3 - doesn't work at all as advertised.

[Version 1.0.1]

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Acuraice commented on 20 Mar 2012

this program is useless if it cant work on imacs!! why regardless of what the developer says,with a simple system hack anyone can edit or even remove the startup chime from ANY MAC!!!

Go to system/Library/Components/CoreAudio.Component/Contents/Resources and do a show packages contents on it by holding "control" and clicking with the mouse,select show package contents. then simply browse to the system sounds you would like to edit or remove including the system startup sound. Done. and FREE!

[Version 1.0.1]

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artie505 replied on 21 Mar 2012

The startup sound does NOT live at the location you've specified, and, as a matter of fact, I'm not aware of anybody ever having located where in OS X it lives; the consensus is that it's somewhere in firmware, and that although it can be silenced it cannot be touched.

AllVu, LLC (developer) replied on 21 Mar 2012

@AcuraIce, sorry StartNinja does not work for you in your situation. If I could figure out how to silence for iMacs I would be on it immediately.

AllVu, LLC (developer) replied on 21 Mar 2012

@artie505, thanks for the back up! :-) I know the app looks pretty simple, however, dealing elevated privileges is not simple.

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Heymini reviewed on 19 Mar 2012

Does exactly what it says on the tin. No more 'tadahhh' when i boot up. I had considered taking my Mac Pro apart to disconnect the annoying tinny speaker, Start Ninja is a much easier solution.
Not a complaint and maybe can't be done but its a pity its not a preference pane. Would be easier to alter if i ever needed to rather than trying to remember the name of a programme.

[Version 1.0]

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Kinetic replied on 20 Mar 2012

I may be mistaken here, but doesn't the start up chime also signify that the start up test has competed successfully? Maybe this has changed, but, from past experience when I didn't hear the chime and checked the system profiler that RAM had not passed the test.