. Sound Using the panes of the Sound panel, you can configure the sound system of your Mac in any of several ways. | . Sound Using the panes of the Sound panel you can configure the sound system of your Mac in any of several ways. Tip Here s a quick way to jump directly to the Sound panel of System Preferences from the keyboard without ever having to open System Preferences or click Sound. Just press Option as you tap one of the volume-adjustment keys on the top row of your Apple keyboard. . Sound Effects Tab Sound effects means error beeps the sound you hear when the Mac wants your attention or when you click someplace you shouldn t. Just click the sound of your choice to make it your default system beep. Most of the canned choices here are funny and clever yet subdued enough to be of practical value as alert sounds Figure 9-16 . As for the other controls on the Sound Effects panel they include Alert volume slider. Some Mac fans are confused by the fact that even when they drag this slider all the way to the left the sound from games and music CDs still plays at full volume. POWER USERS CLINIC Storing Apple Software Updates The great unspoken migraine of Software Update is this If you ever reinstall Mac OS X from its original CD or DVD when you install a new hard drive or move to a new com-puter for example you ll have to download and install all relevant updates again. That is if your Mac came with Mac OS X and iPhoto you ll have to download and install the updater the iPhoto updater and so on. Fortunately although you can t skip the reinstallation process you can skip the download step by preserving the update installers as they arrive. Each time Software Update finds updates to install turn on the ones you wish to install and then choose Update Install and Keep Package. Later you can reinstall your downloaded updates at any time simply by double- clicking each installer. They wind up in your Macintosh HD Library Packages folder. The sole downside When there are multiple updates that require restarting your Mac you have to restart after each .
