Panther Screenshots

[TigerPRO]

I like showing off the Mac OS X interface; especially to those who don't think it's any good (PC users). Here's a screenshot I took to try and persuade them that Macintosh is all powerful. I'd like to see what anyone else can come up with. Post your cool screenshot.

http://ee.domaindlx.com/frogpro/

[Powerbook G5]

How about opening everything on your HD?

http://homepage.mac.com/resurgo/.Pictures/Misc/desktop2.jpg

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by Powerbook G5
How about opening everything on your HD?

http://homepage.mac.com/resurgo/.Pictures/Misc/desktop2.jpg

Cool!

[janey]

heh why not use snapz pro to do a movie of the expose thing? and all the other things you can do with mac os x you cant do with windows.

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by übergeek
heh why not use snapz pro to do a movie of the expose thing? and all the other things you can do with mac os x you cant do with windows.

That would be cool, but I don't have the program. Oh well.

[HexMonkey]

Originally posted by TigerPRO
That would be cool, but I don't have the program. Oh well.

http://planetmirror.com/pub/macgamefiles/ambrosia/SnapzProX/SnapzProX2.dmg
It's a full 30 day trial, after that it puts things over your images/movies (well that was what it did in the original Snapz Pro X anyway).

How would it look if you had a bunch of semi-minimized windows? The method to make one is as follows (this was on MacBytes a while ago):

1. In Terminal, type "killall Dock", but don't execute it
2. Minimize a non-Terminal window in slow motion (holding down shift key)
3. Execute the command while the window is minimizing.

[wordmunger]

I once saw a quicktime someone had made showing off how fast the G5 could open all the apps in the dock--it took about 10 seconds. They made an applescript to launch the apps and then recorded it in real time. Truly phenomenal--but unfortunately I can't find the site again.

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by HexMonkey
http://planetmirror.com/pub/macgamefiles/ambrosia/SnapzProX/SnapzProX2.dmg
It's a full 30 day trial, after that it puts things over your images/movies (well that was what it did in the original Snapz Pro X anyway).

How would it look if you had a bunch of semi-minimized windows? The method to make one is as follows (this was on MacBytes a while ago):

1. In Terminal, type "killall Dock", but don't execute it
2. Minimize a non-Terminal window in slow motion (holding down shift key)
3. Execute the command while the window is minimizing.

There's a program called "Window Funnel" that does the same thing. It was pretty cool.

[CmdrLaForge]

Why do you post that here man ? I mean we are all OS X users ?

[1macker1]

My iMac would most def. die a horrible death if i tried that :)
Originally posted by Powerbook G5
How about opening everything on your HD?

http://homepage.mac.com/resurgo/.Pictures/Misc/desktop2.jpg

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by 1macker1
My iMac would most def. die a horrible death if i tried that :)

I have a 1Ghz iMac and I tried that once.

http://ee.domaindlx.com/frogpro/limits.htm

It was when I first got a Mac that I decided to see how it would handle an overload. Usually on a PC, too many things happening at the same time is enough to freeze the system. But with the excellent kernel handling of Mac OS X, I was able to do this without bringing down the OS. Of course it was slow, but it didn't come close to dying.

This was done when I only had 256MB of RAM!

[whocares]

Originally posted by 1macker1
My iMac would most def. die a horrible death if i tried that :)

Nah, you just need to be (very!) patient :eek: :p :p :cool:

And BTW CmdrLaForge, I don't think everybody here uses OS X; there's probably some OS9, OS8, and OMG, System 7 and below :eek:. Maybe they need some nudging too ;) :p

[virividox]

when i first came to this forum i wasnt on x i was on 9 as well as other flavors of mac os and flavors of windoze, so im sure other ppl surfing the boards will find a video showing what os x can do informative and may convince them that maybe this os is the way to go

[johnnyjibbs]

I had the Finder plus around 25 other programs open (including iDVD, Photoshop Elements, FCE, iMovie, etc). It shows that it is one stable and good OS when my complicated GarageBand piece could still play in its entirety without breaking up and iTunes was playing stutter-free at exactly the same time. I only have 768MB RAM. Ok, so the interface was a little slow, but iDVD was rendering a theme in real-time and everything else was working properly. Pretty good I think. (I didn't bother with a screenshot).

Might have to see what happens when I try that on our Dell at home. I wonder if Windows XP home edition can handle it.

[maxpayne.co.uk]

Even on my college's 1Ghz 512MB eMacs, we were importing from a DV camera and loaded just about every program you could see. The final video stuttered a bit, but imagine doing that on a 1Ghz Windows machine! :D

[Powerbook G5]

I opened all of those programs at once on my PowerBook with iTunes playing in the background with the visualizer set on large and it didn't once stutter as everything opened all at once. It wasn't that slow, either, the only app that slowed down was Photoshop, which resulted in a beachball for a few moments, but besides that, everything else just popped open within a matter of seconds. If this is what is done on a G4 with only 512 megs RAM, I can't imagine how smooth adding another gig or having a dual processor setup would do.

[tomf87]

Originally posted by HexMonkey
...1. In Terminal, type "killall Dock", but don't execute it
2. Minimize a non-Terminal window in slow motion (holding down shift key)
3. Execute the command while the window is minimizing.

Here's a thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60693) about the same thing with screenshots.. TigerPRO, you should enjoy that.

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by tomf87
Here's a thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60693) about the same thing with screenshots.. TigerPRO, you should enjoy that.

Very cool, thanks! What's even more amazing about those windows is that you can actually interact with them normally!

[HexMonkey]

Originally posted by TigerPRO
Very cool, thanks! What's even more amazing about those windows is that you can actually interact with them normally!

Well, sort of. Unfortunately Apple probably didn't expect peope to be doing this so the Window Manager doesn't handle things in the correction location, but it is still nice that it works a bit.
When a window is like this and the clicking areas for a control are off the window, you can't use them, so I decided against permanantly using these windows. :D

[hob]

grrrr... i'm going crazy with jealousy!! I have a G3 900MHz with only 256MB ram and it stutters a little with things like this - although, to Apple's credit - nothing crashes!!

Think it's time i demand an iBook upgrade!!

Hob

[ingenious]

Think it's time i demand an iBook upgrade!!

What about an iBook G4?!?!? LOL


My WinXp (UGH! I know, but my PB is really my schools, i j like to claim it) is stuttering printing a thread, running AIM, MSN, Y!IM, IE, HotSync, PcCillin, and Quicktime. That's not much compared to normal for me.

P.S. most of those are j in the sys tray- dont freak.

[neoelectronaut]

Am I mad? Perhaps.

[Powerbook G5]

If you want mad, try running 6 screen savers superimposed onto a 3D cube running as your Finder background while running every app in your Applications folder. :D

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by Powerbook G5
If you want mad, try running 6 screen savers superimposed onto a 3D cube running as your Finder background while running every app in your Applications folder. :D

I've used that screensaver, it was enough to slow the system to a halt; let alone every app on my system (Over 500). Maybe you can let us know how it works on your PowerBook G5??

[Powerbook G5]

Not much luck ;) I get maybe 7-12 frames per second on the screen saver and it gets pretty stuttery systemwide when I do it. Maybe someday when we have a quantum core G7 with a Radeon 15000 XT it will be smooth as butter.

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by Powerbook G5
Not much luck ;) I get maybe 7-12 frames per second on the screen saver and it gets pretty stuttery systemwide when I do it. Maybe someday when we have a quantum core G7 with a Radeon 15000 XT it will be smooth as butter.

Maybe. And do you have a life outside this forum?

[Powerbook G5]

I sincerely hope you aren't trying to be flamatory by that, it's uncalled for.

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by Powerbook G5
I sincerely hope you aren't trying to be flamatory by that, it's uncalled for.

I guess it all depends on what the word "flamatory" is, and means. Because it wasn't in my dictionary.

[Powerbook G5]

Apparently the word "respect" wasn't in your dictionary, either.

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by Powerbook G5
Apparently the word "respect" wasn't in your dictionary, either. Actually, the word "respect" is in the dictionary. And are you trying to be glib with me? I'm not sure if you are serious or not. But just in case you are perturbed, I will elucidate. The comment I proffered in relation to your "life outside this forum" was jocular, not derogatory. My posts and humor style tend be un-wet and droll at times. No personal abuse is actually indicative.

[agreenster]

Originally posted by TigerPRO
Actually, the word "respect" is in the dictionary. And are you trying to be glib with me? I'm not sure if you are serious or not. But just in case you are perturbed, I will elucidate. The comment I proffered in relation to your "life outside this forum" was jocular, not derogatory. My posts and humor style tend be un-wet and droll at times. No personal abuse is actually indicative.

You know, its funny. I made a similar comment once to good ol Powerbook G5, and he took serious offense to it back then as well. I cant remember the thread, but i bet he does, seeing how MacRumors is his life and all.

Maybe there's some truth to these comments?

Easy there tiger.

[Powerbook G5]

Dude, what the heck did I do to you? I never once did anything to attack you, so just lay off of me. I thought it was a general rule that you do not attack members on the forum, this is the kind of thing that gets people banned.

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by Powerbook G5
Dude, what the heck did I do to you? I never once did anything to attack you, so just lay off of me. I thought it was a general rule that you do not attack members on the forum, this is the kind of thing that gets people banned. I think your comments here are more "flamatory" than agreenster's. lol. By the way, don't be irritated that you don't have a life outside this forum. No one ever said it was a bad thing. This is a great site to spend your life on! isn't is agreenster?

[edesignuk]

PBg5, cool down. IMO no one said anything that would make anyone even think of banning them. You are taking this way over-the-top if you ask me.

Peace and love! :D :p

[CmdrLaForge]

Yes, peace and love folks. Just stay smart and cool.

;)

[Powerbook G5]

Well I'm sorry, I guess I was just expecting more mature behavior from people here since it seemed that generally members of this forum are more respectable than other places I've been to. I just don't see where it's appropriate to be accusing others of having no life for no apparent reason. I don't accuse any of you of having no life, so share the respect.

[johnnyjibbs]

I have to agree with PBG5 here. I don't think he was being over the top, and I don't think there was any need for TigerPRO to make the comment in the first place.

Anyway, back on topic, here's a picture of expose in action to calm everyone! (Actually it's a Windows XP desktop picture but they are all quite nice) :)

[orangefoodie]

Just throwing out a random question...

In the first screenshot in this thread, what's the little recycling triangle icon and the padlock icon in the menubar? :D

[blue&whiteman]

my view

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by orangefoodie
Just throwing out a random question...

In the first screenshot in this thread, what's the little recycling triangle icon and the padlock icon in the menubar? :D

Good question. It's a cool little program called "BackLight" that lets you play a screensaver as your desktop background. It's one of those cool little apps.

http://freshlysqueezedsoftware.com/products/freeware/

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by blue&whiteman
my view Very cool! Finally, someone posting a screenshot. Which one of the programs are you using for the transparent effect?

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by johnnyjibbs
I have to agree with PBG5 here. I don't think he was being over the top, and I don't think there was any need for TigerPRO to make the comment in the first place. I don't think you have a correct impression johnnyribbs. It was only meant to amuse PowerBook G5. So please don't view it as a negative remark. Just chill out a little folks, I don't understand all these negative assumptions.

Just so you know PowerBook G5, I wasn't being unkind or unfriendly, sorry if I came across that way to you. You can safely assume nothing I say is meant that way. I let you know if I'm ever seriously being rude.

[blue&whiteman]

Originally posted by TigerPRO
Very cool! Finally, someone posting a screenshot. Which one of the programs are you using for the transparent effect?

window shade

[johnnyjibbs]

I take your point but it obviously didn't amuse him. Maybe you should have put an emoticon in ( ;) ) so that comments are not taken the wrong way. Anyway, I say no more on the matter and we can all get along nicely. No harm done :)

Just downloaded BackLight 2 - it's quite nice, although probably annoying and pointless when you have lots of windows open and can't see the desktop anyway.

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by johnnyjibbs
I take your point but it obviously didn't amuse him. Maybe you should have put an emoticon in ( ;) ) so that comments are not taken the wrong way. Anyway, I say no more on the matter and we can all get along nicely. No harm done :)

Just downloaded BackLight 2 - it's quite nice, although probably annoying and pointless when you have lots of windows open and can't see the desktop anyway. Well, it wasn't so obvious to me. I though he was being glib with me. So I played long. Anyway...

Yes, great program. It mainly serves me the purpose of impressing my PC friends, trying to get them to concede. lol. It's been working pretty good so far. You fire up the iTunes visualizer in a window, then you start backlight, open up a few transparent widgets, and then start poking around in the terminal. They'll think you are from the future. Then they usually proceed to bow down and worship my beautiful my 17 inch imac (ok, not really, but that's probably what they are thinking).

[DaveTheGrey]

Windows user: Don´t try this (http://www.clanraubspinne.de/desktop2.jpg) at home !!!

Dave

[TigerPRO]

Originally posted by Dave187
Windows users: Don´t try this (http://www.clanraubspinne.de/desktop2.jpg) at home !!!

Dave Man, that is sweet! behold the power of Macintosh! I'm speechless.

[adamjay]

heres my attempt...
http://www.chromanetmusicworks.com/adamjay/neverdidcrash.jpg

12" 867mhz G4 Powerbook with 640mb ram.
it certainly didnt crash but certainly did slow down.. and i had activity monitor open as well and still had 7mb left of unused ram before i took the screen shot.

the fun part was quitting all the appz one by one and noticing the computer becoming faster and faster as i did so.

and btw, i dont have that much shi# in my dock... usually only about 10 things. hehehe

[varmit]

It has 640 RAM
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/b/j/bje128/600screen.jpg

[spyder22]

Hey, TigerPRO what's that cool little weather app you have in those screen shots?

[TigerPRO]

Hey, TigerPRO what's that cool little weather app you have in those screen shots? It's a program called "konfabulator". You can download it at: http://konfabulator.com/

The application runs other mini-programs called widgets. That particular weather thing come as a default widget. So just download konfabulator, and you'll have all you need to get it running.

[spyder22]

Groovy, thanks!

[TigerPRO]

Groovy, thanks! It is by far, one of my favorite Mac OS X apps! But some people like to shun it because they think there are to many clock widgets. I think it's great!

[DaveTheGrey]

Thnx TigerPro !!!
Great App !!! :D

Dave

[johnnyjibbs]

TigerPRO, have you had any problems with konfublator? I've heard that whenevr anyone has been having OS crashes or app crashes they have isolated the cause to be something to do with that program. Does it mess around a lot with the system? I'm overly cautious to the point of being paranoid by messing my up my perfectly running system. I'm nervous to try it out.

[TigerPRO]

TigerPRO, have you had any problems with konfublator? I've heard that whenevr anyone has been having OS crashes or app crashes they have isolated the cause to be something to do with that program. Does it mess around a lot with the system? I'm overly cautious to the point of being paranoid by messing my up my perfectly running system. I'm nervous to try it out. In answer to your question, no, I haven't had any system related problems; and I've been using it for almost a year now. So I think I can confidently tell you that it won't "mess up" your system. It's completely self existent. All it really does is create a folder on your hard drive with the default widgets in it. Other than that, I don't think it modifies the system in any way.

And dude, don't forget, Mac OS X is not like windows, where the more programs you install, the slower and less stable it becomes. I've installed over 600 programs on my installation of Mac OS X, and haven't felt a thing. Again, with windows I'd be reloading the OS every 6 months to keep the system clean and running normally. But my OS is still running smooth as silk, I've never had to do that. The only apps I'm really weary about are those "theme changers", and other similar "hacking" programs.

On downside to konfabulator is that it's not a free program. I mean you can download is and use it for free, but there is a window that floats on your desktop constantly that you can't get rid of. And one of the latest revisions to the program prohibits you from dragging it off screen (which is what I normally would do). But there was one version (1.5.2) that let you close the window down completely! It must have been a bug, because in the next upgrade, it was gone. So I'm still using the outdated 1.5.2 because I hate that window. It's really worth it to buy the program though. I just have a policy of not buying programs on the internet. Everything I use is free. Of course I do buy professional software, I just mean I don't pay for these little shareware apps. If I bought every one I liked and used, I'd go broke. So freeware suits me just fine. There's allot of it.

[Powerbook G5]

The program is all right, I think the big problem some may be having where it becomes unstable is when they update OS X and don't stay on top of the Konfab updates. It's pretty picky about OS X updates so if you were to update to 10.3.3 it could become really flakey until it gets updated as well.

[adamjay]

i think its a great program... i love the currency exchange rate widgets, traffic widgets, famous quotes widgets, and of course the weather widgets.

i did run xbench to see if it had affected my performance in any way by running it in the background... and i lost 3 points. but that's nothing really, and your mileage may very. i've just become an xbench addict lately and love to see which background app'z affect the system. konfab seems extremely effecient on Panther.

i want to make a widget that alerts mac users to every new release of a windows worm/virus. and the Alert will be Nelson from the Simpson's saying "ha-ha".......
sorry, i'll go sit in the corner now.

[TigerPRO]

i think its a great program... i love the currency exchange rate widgets, traffic widgets, famous quotes widgets, and of course the weather widgets.

i did run xbench to see if it had affected my performance in any way by running it in the background... and i lost 3 points. but that's nothing really, and your mileage may very. i've just become an xbench addict lately and love to see which background app'z affect the system. konfab seems extremely effecient on Panther.

i want to make a widget that alerts mac users to every new release of a windows worm/virus. and the Alert will be Nelson from the Simpson's saying "ha-ha".......
sorry, i'll go sit in the corner now. I would eagerly be interested in a copy of that widget if you ever finish it. So get out of that corner and get to work!

[TigerPRO]

Since we are on the topic of interfaces. This is for you old mac user: is it true that nobody liked the aqua interface of OS X when it first came out? I wasn't around (a mac user then), but I assume that such an abrupt change must have been met with an extreme revolt. Are any of you still anti-ten interface people?

[blue&whiteman]

Since we are on the topic of interfaces. This is for you old mac user: is it true that nobody liked the aqua interface of OS X when it first came out? I wasn't around (a mac user then), but I assume that such an abrupt change must have been met with an extreme revolt. Are any of you still anti-ten interface people?


not really as there were a lot of people that raved about it and there were also many themes for os9 to make it look like x.

[Powerbook G5]

I had OS X 10.0 and it was just way too pinstripey for my taste.

[stevietheb]

n00b

I've got Backlight running with a matrix screensaver running at 15% opacity so that it looks like the code is creating my desktop. I'm a dork.

How do I take a screenshot?

[blue&whiteman]

How do I take a screenshot?

shift-cmd-3

[TigerPRO]

n00b

I've got Backlight running with a matrix screensaver running at 15% opacity so that it looks like the code is creating my desktop. I'm a dork.

How do I take a screenshot?DUDE! I have to try that...

[stevietheb]

Here's my ubergeeky matrix desktop.

Anyone know of a good site for free screensavers? (I'm poor after buying this iBook)