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Blingy Sounds

How to customize your Newton's sounds for...

• Alarms (System Sound)
• Alerts (System Sound)
• Startup (System Sound)
• Sleep (System Sound)
• Package Added
• Package Removed
• Package Moved
• Package Replaced

(Source: Matt-the-K, David Abramowitz and DJ Vollkasko at NTLK July 2005)

• Note: This is kinda the audio pendant to StephanieMaks' Blinky Lights Hacks for eMate and MP2x00, only it helps to make the Newton infinitely more annoying to third parties by talking back about every single action... ;=}
• Recommendation: Set up all the acoustic monstrosities mentioned below, add ScratchPad 2.0 and mp3-player Mad Max,improve your Newton with a batch of blinking lights, and hotglue a mirrorball to your nose. Then you'd be the first kid on your block to have a truly portable disco 'puting experience! (Offer vary while supplies last. Your mileage may good.)

"Bling different!"

Is there a piece of software that will allow the Newton to allocate a different sound effect for different functions? For example, I'd like one specific sound to play when the Newton starts, another sound to play when an error is made, another sound to play when the Newton is shut down, etc. Does such an animal exist?

• A. You can set these with on-board means:
  

  • Alarm Sound in Unfiled Icons/Prefs/Alarm
    
  • Alert Sound in Unfiled Icons/Prefs/Sound
    

• B.1 You can use Sunrise 1.0 by Ray Rischpater, which allows to set sounds for Startup and Sleep. It installs in Preferences (Prefs/Sunrise).
  

  • Download available here and there.
    
• B.2 Or you can use StartupSound 0.15 for NOS 2.x by Tomoyoshi Murai

• C. Tactile's Package Beeper goes bling after a package has installed, been moved, replaced or deleted.
  

  • It accepts any new sounds you've installed and gives you the option to set individualised acoustic alerts on these events:
    

    • Package Added, Package Removed, Package Moved, Package Replaced.
      
  • Note: Doesn't bling on transferring packages to the In Box via Bluetooth, only when putting the packages away (via IC/VC). Would be handy, though, to have Newton advise of completed transfers (from/to) for BT, IR, too, esp. after lenghty book installs. ;=}
    

• D. New Sounds

  • Tactile courteously provides new sets of sounds: Mac OS 7 sounds (makes Apple users turn their heads...), Star Wars sounds (go home, trekkies!), 2001 sounds (does this have "Hello Dave..."?)
    
  • BuiltIn Sounds on the same page exposes the built-in sounds to the Sounds popup list, without any new sounds having to be installed (2 k only!).
    
  • What would be cool to have: Sounds from Dr Who, Battlestar Galactica, Mars Attacks...
    

  • More Newton Sounds incl. original Star Trek and Start Trek Next Generation. Also SoundIcons to be used in the Sound popuplist (incl. Tricorder -- brings back memoroes of Newton's original Tricorder app)...
    

    • Q: Where else are nice Newton sound packages on the web?
      
    • Q: What's the difference between the "Sounds" and "SoundIcons" at UNNA?

• E. SysPatch 0.5b (mirror) by Hongkong's Richard C.L. Li claims to do something regarding "Global sound functions", whatever that means.
  

  • Q: Could somebody pls. investigate?
  • Q: What's that Patch improving, anyway?
    

• F. Serg Koren's VoiceAlarm 1.0 allows the use of different recorded sounds as an alarm.
  

  • Neat way to put ANY sound effect into your Preferences' Sound (Alarm, Sunrise) folders, just record it and it's there!
    

• G. SoundOff by DeepFocus.com (Thx, Woo Lee!)

  • What it do?

More stupid Newton Audio Fun

• Audio
• MakeNewtonSpeakText with Macintalk voice synthesis. Use text-to-speech functionality with Notes, ebooks or implement voice synthesis in your development project!
• MakeNewtonSing - if you want to make your Newton sing Christmas carols (or anything else)
• ModPlayer plays music (.MOD files) at 22Khz mono. (The mod format itself is about 44Khz stereo, but the newton can't do that). A MOD file is a file containing one sample of each instrument which will be used, and a midi-like collection of note information. Alarm and sleep features allow you to use it as an alarm system!
• MadNewt/MadMax play MP3s on Newton OS 2.1

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