Mute Keyboard Shortcut

Often when I am video conferencing, I have my mute button (within iChat, not my speaker mute) on so if some kind of alert comes in it doesn't interferre with the meeting.
The problem is, is when I'm asked a question, I have to pause...go hit the mute button on my iChat window. Sometimes I'm doing other things during the meeting (shhh) like other work or surfing. So, the pause can seem a bit long.
Is there any way to have a keyboard shortcut, so that I can click on my iChat icon in the dock and quickly hit a keyboard shortcut?

I would use headphones so they can not hear the Alerts.
4:35 PM Saturday; March 1, 2008

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Hi all,
I use my black MacBook at work, connected to an external monitor and external keyboard. I'm looking for a way to set up the F buttons on my external keyboard as volume control, just as they do on my laptop keyboard. Looking for F3 to F5 to be volume mute, down, and up, respectively.
I tried going into Keyboard Shortcuts in System Preferences but since there is no menu item for volume control I can't seem to add it. Anyone know how I can go about doing this or what I'm missing?
Thanks
Mike

paste the following into Applescrpt Editor (it's in /Applications/Utilities)
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
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-- work out the new setting
if curVolume < 96 then
set newVolume to curVolume + 5
else
-- can't go over 100
set newVolume to 100
end if
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You can use a 3rd part app launcher to bind a keyboard shortcut to it. I use Butler. there are many others: Quicksilver, ikeys, quickeys, Spark, Launchbar.
this will work the fastest.
If you don't want to use 3rd party tools for this you can make a service using automator but that might be a bit slower than the first option. open automator. it will give you a pulldown screen wiuth the choice of what you want to make. choose "service". set it to receive no input and be available in all applications. add the following "run apple script" action to the service
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
on run {input, parameters}
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-- work out the new setting
if curVolume < 96 then
set newVolume to curVolume + 5
else
-- can't go over 100
set newVolume to 100
end if
-- and apply it
set volume output volume newVolume
end run</pre>
save the service, go to keyboard system preferences->keyboard shortcuts->services and make a shortcut for the service you just created.

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Alex Geis wrote:
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In the last week or so my keyboard shortcuts for volume control are no longer working - even the mute button has no effect. when I press the shortcuts the volume adjustment image pops up and the computer makes the clicking noise, but the volume doesn't change. I can change it by going into system preferences>audio but it's fairly annoying. Would really appreciate some help on how to solve this! Thanks

This solution worked for me! I have a MacBook Pro OS X Yosemite 10.10.1; after new software download I had to rely on earbuds or external speakers. Weird solution, but it worked, so thanks for sharing!

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This is a follow-up to the above question I had.
Since i noticed people looking at the question, but no replies showing up, i contacted BC support directly with the same question.
I got a reply.
I did tests based on the reply.
Here is what is going on based on the reply.
(spoiler alert : It works... but it's not yet a perfect score.)
All the details are posted here :
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Keyboard Shortcut for Volume Control

Dear all,
Is there a way to increase or decrease the volume using a keyboard shortcut?? Any help here will be much appreciated.

Use the side edge volume controls.
There's no keyboard controls that I know of, other than the # key might place your device on the Silent profile (or the top edge MUTE key )
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i have been pointed to the "keyboard shortcuts" page and very helpfull it is as well, i particularly wanted to try out the actions it explain for F9 through to F12, but instead of doing what it says in the "keyboard shortcut" page, it does what it says ON the key itself, volume up, down and mute etc. i have left the expose and spaces as defaut until i learn more about the machine overall !!.
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CMD – c (Copy selected text)
CMD – x (Cut selected text)
CMD – v (Paste)
CMD – z (Undo)
CMD – e (End of Line)
CMD – a (Beginning of Line)
CMD – k (Delete To End of Line)
CMD – f (Cursor Forward)
CMD – b (Cursor Back)
CMD – n (Next Line)
CMD – p (Previous Line)
CMD – shift – z (Redo)
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CMD – Down Arrow (Jump to bottom of document)
CMD – Left Arrow (Jump to beginning of line)
CMD – Right Arrow (Jump to end of line)
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F1 (Dim Screen)
F2 (Brighten Screen)
F7 (Back one song)
F8 (Play/Pause Music)
F9 (Skip one song ahead)
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Option – Shift (Any letter or number, alternative character)
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Shift – ↓(Select the Text Below)
Shift – ←Select the Text on the Left)
Shift – →(Select the Text on the Right)
Shift – CMD – ↑(Select All Text to Beginning of Doc)
Shift – CMD – ↓(Select All Text to End of Doc)
Shift – CMD – ←(Select All Text to Beginning of Line)
Shift – CMD – →(Select All Text to End of Line
Shift – Option – ↑(Select the Text Above, Line by Line)
Shift – Option – ↓(Select the Text below, Line by Line)
Shift – Option – ←(Select the Text on the Left, Word by Word)
Shift – Option – →(Select the Text on the Right, Word by Word)

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Sorry, left out a few at the end:
CMD – c (Copy selected text)
CMD – x (Cut selected text)
CMD – v (Paste)
CMD – z (Undo)
CMD – e (End of Line)
CMD – a (Beginning of Line)
CMD – k (Delete To End of Line)
CMD – f (Cursor Forward)
CMD – b (Cursor Back)
CMD – n (Next Line)
CMD – p (Previous Line)
CMD – shift – z (Redo)
CMD – Up Arrow (Jump to top of document)
CMD – Down Arrow (Jump to bottom of document)
CMD – Left Arrow (Jump to beginning of line)
CMD – Right Arrow (Jump to end of line)
CMD – Delete (Delete everything on the current line to the left of the cursor)
Option – Delete (Delete the word to the left of the cursor, and its preceding space)
F1 (Dim Screen)
F2 (Brighten Screen)
F7 (Back one song)
F8 (Play/Pause Music)
F9 (Skip one song ahead)
F10 (Mute) F11 (Volume Down)
F12 (Volume Up)
Eject key (Show/hide on-screen keyboard)
Option – Shift (Any letter or number, alternative character)
Shift – ↑(Select the Text Above)
Shift – ↓(Select the Text Below)
Shift – ←Select the Text on the Left)
Shift – →(Select the Text on the Right)
Shift – CMD – ↑(Select All Text to Beginning of Doc)
Shift – CMD – ↓(Select All Text to End of Doc)
Shift – CMD – ←(Select All Text to Beginning of Line)
Shift – CMD – →(Select All Text to End of Line
Shift – Option – ↑(Select the Text Above, Line by Line)
Shift – Option – ↓(Select the Text below, Line by Line)
Shift – Option – ←(Select the Text on the Left, Word by Word)
Shift – Option – →(Select the Text on the Right, Word by Word)

Overwrite edit keyboard shortcut

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No doubt it's the new aluminum keyboard (which I love), that's tripping you up. There are a couple of ways to address it.
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i Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys
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