![]() ![]() If you have file or program you want played when your computer starts up, just drag it into the Startup Items folder in the System Folder. When it finishes booting, the CD will start playing automatically! Waking to a File or Program You’ll probably want to check your volume settings and then shut down your computer. In AppleCD Audio Player, choose Preferences from the Edit menu, then check the AutoPlay checkbox. Under the AutoPlay tab in QuickTime Settings, check the Enable Audio CD AutoPlay checkbox. Then open up your QuickTime Settings control panel or AppleCD Audio Player. Waking to a CDįind the CD you want the computer to play and insert it into your computer. You can have your computer automatically play a CD, a QuickTime file, a RealMedia file, or launch a particularly audible computer program. The startup chime your computer makes when it turns on may be enough to wake up the lightest of sleepers, but for the rest of us, there’s one more step: picking something noisy to wake you up. Set the time/day you want it to start up (making sure to check the “Scheduled Shutdown Instead of Sleep” checkbox on newer Macs) and then shut down the computer when you’re done for the day. On older systems, you’ll run into either CPU Energy Saver or Auto Power On/Off control panels, but they work the same way. On newer Macs, you set this in the Energy Saver control panel in the Schedule tab. Your Mac can wake you up by turning itself on at a set time. ![]() Got a Mac in your bedroom? Great – you can use it as an alarm clock! Here’s how to do it.
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