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SoundOn! - 1.0.1

Prevents PB G4 speakers from turning off in battery power

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All Time:	(1.0)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	1.0.1
Release Date:	2003-01-26
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	1,777
Downloads (all versions):	2,035

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Product Description:

SoundOn! is a simple freeware application for PowerBook G4 Titanium users. SoundOn! prevents PowerBook G4's speakers form turning off when you use battery power. In fact, to save energy, Mac OS X turns PB G4's speakers off after a while if no sound is played and you're using battery power. The negative side of this is that when the computer plays a sound you see the spinning rainbow cursor and have to wait for two or three seconds (while the computer waits for the speakers to be turned on) before you can continue using the computer.

SoundOn! plays a "silence" sound every ten seconds, so that your PowerBook's speakers will be never turned off and will be ready to play when needed: so you'll stop waiting at every damn sound! :-)

You may say that this will lower the duration of the battery and probably it does, but I can say that battery performance decrease is not noticeable. Another thing... SoundOn! is not needed on Mac OS 9 since this OS doesn't seem to turn off speakers.

What's new in this version:

The application automatically quits if it is launched under Mac OS X 10.1.1 or lower.
The silence sound is executed every 20 seconds instead of 10, so that SoundOn uses even less processor time than version 1.0.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1.2 or higher

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KeepSoundAwake 1.3 lets… - Version: 1.0.1, 1/27/2003 12:57AM PST

italian_maclover

choose to switch off or on the auto_sound_off Scicolone should improve this feature on his SoundOn too. Is usefull while using battery to let sound go off.

I get the… - Version: 1.0.1, 1/26/2003 08:26PM PST

mr tew

problem still on my third PBG4 now and keep sound awake doesn't fix it all the time. I am going to try this!

I've had a… - Version: 1.0, 1/8/2003 01:02AM PST

gordocoop

problem with both this app and KeepSoundAwake on a PB G4 running 10.2.3 where when waking from sleep I lose all sound, everything from Xounds to regular alert beeps. Have to restart to get them back. Otherwise the apps work as they claim, but this happens often enough that I'm forced to choose between which problem is more annoying, and losing sound altogether wins in this case. Anyone notice this problem?