Thursday, January 10, 2008

AppleScripts to Toggle the Microphone

I'm nice and busy here in Osaka, but not too busy to see this infuriating "answer" on Yahoo, about how to mute a MacBook microphone:
Unfortunately that's quite impossible to do on a Mac. I've tried looking for a solution, but there was never an answer. I got tired of my Mac, and bought a Sony Vaio instead. They actually work, and are actually quality computers.
What the hell is wrong with people? And it was an accepted answer? Well, for some reason I can't post a new answer, so let me just say; a simple AppleScript (which I've written, and have available right here) can toggle the MacBook's onboard microphone. If you need it bound to a key, free programs like GlobalHotkey have you covered.

Don't like the way the AppleScript works? Just open it in Script Editor.

Stupid Yahoo Answers. I should be studying Kanji. :)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

how to you turn that off?

Tedo said...

Yahoo answers?! XD

Federico said...

MicToggle.zip is down, download a copy here
http://mac.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php?p=69384&t=4&i=1

Khakionion said...

Oh! So sorry about that. The link to MicToggle.zip has been restored. Thank you for the comment.