Why is my Mac beeping at me in a Sprint-Nextel-PTT kind of way?

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Published on 2010-05-10T03:44:44Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 3:49 UTC
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I'm really stumped about this one. Before on OSX 10.5 and now on OSX 10.6, my Mac occasionally beeps at me. It's a split-second "bee-bee-beep" that sounds vaguely similar to the push-to-talk beep you hear on Sprint/Nextel PTT commercials. I haven't been able to isolate what's running when it happens or what happens before it happens. Possible culprits are Quicksilver, Firefox, DropBox, Evernote helper, TrueCrypt, Wally.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

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