Mat on Macs

Pukka is a neat little multi-account del.icio.us posting client compatible with NetNewsWire as well as all browsers (via a bookmarklet). To be honest I until recently really preferred cocoalicious, but it has stopped working for me since the API change, but even more importantly it does not support multiple accounts as does Pukka. Multiple account support alone is worth Pukka’s modest fee of $5. There is one, however, I don’t like about Pukka: its posting sound effect of a smooch. I could just turn the sound effects off (in the Preferences), but it does in fact serve a purpose of letting the user know that the item has successfully posted. So the solution is to change the annoying sound effect; fortunately, it’s pretty easy to do.

Before you start, duplicate the original Pukka.app in case you screw something up.

1) First find (or make) a wav file you’d like to replace the default posting effect with.
2) Right click on Pukka.app in the Finder and select “show package contents”
3) Navigate to Pukka/Contents/Resources/
4) Delete (or maybe just move to the desktop) the file called: kiss.wav
5) Copy your preferred sound effect from step (1) to Pukka/Contents/Resources/
6) Rename that file: kiss.wav and you’re done

Now when you post with Pukka you’ll get your preferred sound effect. I used the OS X default ping sound which I converted to a wav with SoundConverter