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From: commons@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Peter Commons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Polly MacBeep (was "Changing System Beeps")
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.204313.10974@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 19 Feb 91 20:43:13 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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Another really fun and easy way to change your beeps sounds is with Polly 
MacBeep, a sound utility available for $10 from Delta Tao Software, 
760 Harvard Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94087. Phone: (408)730-9336. (Delta Tao
also published ColorMacCheese, Spaceward Ho!, and Strategic Conquest 3.0).

Polly MacBeep comes with an entire disk of sounds and an application that 
allows you to add/delete more. When you put a sound in the Polly MacBeep sound
file, you give it a percentage weight. Every time your machine is supposed
to beep, Polly MacBeep randomly picks a sound to play from the list it has -
based on the percentages you gave. In other words, rather than just playing
one sound every time, it will play any number of sounds.

It's a lot of fun and not very bothersome- I have the regular system beep 
weighted about 80%, so most of the time my machine acts normally, and then,
every once in a while, it surprises me.

And at $10, who can go wrong?


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Peter Commons		
commons@cs.stanford.edu	
Computer Science Department, Stanford University