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How to completely change you user interface. It just takes 4 buttons.

music.addict411

music.addict411

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In school I found out how to change the entire user interface of your mac.

Hold down the control, option and apple buttons at the same time and press 8. The screen should look completely different now. I think it looks almost better.

To get back to normal do the same shortcut.
 
It's amazing how many people keep discovering that key combo. 😛 I use it at night since it's easier on my eyes.

All it does is invert the colours. You can also change to B&W in the Universal Access preferences pane.
 
That actually hurts my eyes more than it helps. If there's any bit of black on the screen, the inverted color makes me dizzy.
 
Funny. I was just facetiously mentioning this in another thread, along with the Shift+function keys to make Exposé move slowly and the Cmd+W combination to free up system resources.
 
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Amazing! I wonder how many other hidden features like this are in OS X. </sarcasm>
 
music.addict411 said:
In school I found out how to change the entire user interface of your mac...
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Known about this for a while from a previous thread, but it's a good guide to the quality of sales staff. I did this middle of last week at a local CE store that sells Macs... they are yet to change it back to normal and I suspect they don't know how. From memory another good wheeze on MS Win.XP machines is to hit Alt+Ctrl+[an arrow key], it flips the desktop through 90º or 180º depending on which arrow key. I did this to a colleague's machine while away from his desk, when he returned he was baffled. I sat in his chair looking all techie 'n' stuff and with a carefully placed hand on the correct keys hit the LCD to 'right' the desktop🙂
 
mpw said:
Known about this for a while from a previous thread, but it's a good guide to the quality of sales staff. I did this middle of last week at a local CE store that sells Macs... they are yet to change it back to normal and I suspect they don't know how. From memory another good wheeze on MS Win.XP machines is to hit Alt+Ctrl+[an arrow key], it flips the desktop through 90º or 180º depending on which arrow key. I did this to a colleague's machine while away from his desk, when he returned he was baffled. I sat in his chair looking all techie 'n' stuff and with a carefully placed hand on the correct keys hit the LCD to 'right' the desktop🙂
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That only works on the Intel graphics chips with the full driver loaded.
 
37 icons in the dock of my 15" powerbook right now (including the trashcan). Dock size on minimum. 😱

And yes, I use all of them on a regular basis.
 
I remember I done this to a mate's MacBook when he was in the toilet. He came back, totally confused and he ended up taking it to the nearest Apple retailer to get it checked over.

The guy at the retailer was pretty baffled too and thought the LCD display connection was playing up.

Just aswell I told him before that plonker opened up his MacBook..
 
mpw said:
From memory another good wheeze on MS Win.XP machines is to hit Alt+Ctrl+[an arrow key], it flips the desktop through 90º or 180º depending on which arrow key.
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VoidBoi said:
Doesn't appear to work here.
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I did this trick to several people at work as a April Fool's joke. It isn't always enabled on some machines, to turn it on you go to the control panel, however I can't find the control panel item on this XP machine... it's not display it had something to do with the graphics card I think.
 
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