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Product Description:
Volume Slider is a simple Mac OS X application which allows you to control your computer's volume using a slider on a small window that you can place anywhere on your screen. Volume Slider has two components including (1) a small volume slider with a mute button on it, and (2) a resizable mute button separate from the slider which is useful for rapidly muting the sound.
What's new in this version:
- Improved compatibility with systems set to formats other than the United States
- Added a menu option to mute or unmute the volume with a key command
- Minor interface enhancements
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
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EXACTLY what I need 
- Version: 1.2, 4/19/2007 10:30AM PST
alaskaron
This fits the bill for exaclty what I need for a computer my children use, but which has a special kids' keyboard without volume control keys on it. Having this tiny volume slider window hovering on the screen means they don't need to exit out of their games (which all go full screen, obscuring the menubar) to turn it up or down. THANK YOU!
Also, contrary to the report about this program using massive CPU: When it is just sitting doing nothing, it seems to take about 2% CPU cycles. When controlling the slider, it spikes at about 18%. It does seem a bit high, but when it is just sitting there doing nothing, 2% doesn't concern me. And for the split second it spikes at 18%, I don't see a reason to get upset. The benefits I explained above far outweigh the CPU issue.
Also, contrary to the report about this program using massive CPU: When it is just sitting doing nothing, it seems to take about 2% CPU cycles. When controlling the slider, it spikes at about 18%. It does seem a bit high, but when it is just sitting there doing nothing, 2% doesn't concern me. And for the split second it spikes at 18%, I don't see a reason to get upset. The benefits I explained above far outweigh the CPU issue.
uses too much CPU 
- Version: 1.1, 12/27/2004 11:46AM PST
Matt_Neuburg_865
Unfortunately, uses massive amounts of CPU relative to what it does (i.e. nothing). That's a pity, because I long to use this program, and with this kind of insane CPU usage, I just can't.
What makes it potentially better than the system's own menu extra? I can think of five things:
(1) The menu extra beeps when you use it, and there is no way to turn this off. Indeed, I was about to write my own app to solve this problem when I discovered Volume Slider instead. (If the author can't get the CPU problem solved, I might still have to.)
(2) To see the current sound volume, you have to pop the menu extra down. With Volume Slider, you just see it.
(3) Volume Slider shows numerical value and hash marks; the menu extra does not.
(4) The menu extra is a menu extra. I hate those: they take up valuable menu bar real estate, and get crowded out by programs that have lots of menus.
(5) My keyboard has no sound-volume keys, so I am forced to use the menu extra (which, as I said before, beeps) unless I can find or write an alternative.
What makes it potentially better than the system's own menu extra? I can think of five things:
(1) The menu extra beeps when you use it, and there is no way to turn this off. Indeed, I was about to write my own app to solve this problem when I discovered Volume Slider instead. (If the author can't get the CPU problem solved, I might still have to.)
(2) To see the current sound volume, you have to pop the menu extra down. With Volume Slider, you just see it.
(3) Volume Slider shows numerical value and hash marks; the menu extra does not.
(4) The menu extra is a menu extra. I hate those: they take up valuable menu bar real estate, and get crowded out by programs that have lots of menus.
(5) My keyboard has no sound-volume keys, so I am forced to use the menu extra (which, as I said before, beeps) unless I can find or write an alternative.
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- uses too much CPU (1 replies)
Also, contrary to the report about this program using massive CPU: When it is just sitting doing nothing, it seems to take about 2% CPU cycles. When controlling the slider, it spikes at about 18%. It does seem a bit high, but when it is just sitting there doing nothing, 2% doesn't concern me. And for the split second it spikes at 18%, I don't see a reason to get upset. The benefits I explained above far outweigh the CPU issue.