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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 143

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 143. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Strait, surgical probe, volume controls.

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Sound

Strait (a sound), surgical probe (a sound), volume controls (what the System Preferences pane does).

2: Reproduced sound of medium length for device configuration.

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Audio MIDI Setup

Reproduced sound (audio) of medium length (a midi-length garment) for device configuration (what this under-rated app in Utilities does).

3: Biggles in khaki is lossy in iTunes.

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AAC

Biggles (famous fictional RAF pilot) in khaki (phrase to indicate the British Army, hence ‘Biggles in khaki’ is the Army Air Corps, or AAC) is lossy in iTunes (AAC is the preferred form of compression for iTunes music, and is lossy).

The common factor

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All are concerned with sound and audio.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.