Shut up flash!

Maybe the most annoying of the (many) problems with flash is the lack of an integrated, universal volume and/or mute control. I hate websites that play music without asking, flash games with annoying sounds, videos I can't adjust the volume of without affecting my whole system volume, etc. Firefox and IE should really have built-in volume/mute controls.

Anyway, I found this great little download for Windows users, FlashMute. It sits in your system tray and gives you a universal volume control for all flash animations. Nice.