I’ve mentioned white/pink noise in the past and how it can be useful for concentration. For quite a while I’ve been able to concentrate on working with just music, but its starting to wear thin and I’m needing to use white/pink noise more often.

My favorite application for white/pink noise is Noise by Blackhole Media. I noticed today that it the app was taking up a little more memory than it should have been. So I did a little investigation and found that it was running as a PowerPC binary, considering the copyright on this app is 2001 I guess its to be expected.

Fortunately the app is open source so I opened everything up in xcode and recompiled it as a universal binary. While in xcode I noticed a few features that I didn’t know existed. There are actually two buttons in the menu that allow you to switch between pink noise and white noise. There is a significant difference that you can hear between the different types and I’ve found they allow you to concentrate in different ways.

So I’ve changed the button from the older ‘Push Button’ to the newer ‘Rounded Rect Button’. On top of that I’ve added two radio buttons that allow you to switch between pink and white noise. Everything else is the same.

So if you’re on an intel mac feel free to download and share! (the screenshot is a link to the download)

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