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Bring "Shake-to-Undo" to Your Mac (At Your Own Risk)
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This... and it's such an egregious use of the accelerometer.
Try performing multiple "undo" operations in the Notes app (where is the alternative on-screen option?). Retarded.
It does actually remind me of the Pizza Print application that MacRumors reviewed as an April Fool's joke years ago...
If you put this on my work PC but put the motion sensor in my monitor, than it would be immensely useful... because I smack my monitor all the time when something screws up!
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Crazyest thing I've ever heard of.
Crazyest thing I've ever heard of.
SmackBook is what you want. It (and the ambient light-sensor equivalent, ShadowBook,) allows you to change desktops (Spaces) by smacking your computer. (Or waving your hand over the speaker grille for ShadowBook.)
I use it with a full-screen Parallels session to "smack" Windows to switch to Mac OS X.
Now I can work out while working on my computer. Shaking that Mac Pro each time I want to undo something will surely build up muscels. Just watch me in a couple of months. 
This doesn't even make sense on an iPad. It feels like I'm shaking an etch-a-sketch, and with the appropriate case, would look like it too.
In what way is it a good idea to shake your $1000+ computer when command+z is safer for the equipment, easier for the user, built-in....
In what way is it a good idea to shake your $1000+ computer when command+z is safer for the equipment, easier for the user, built-in....
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This has made my day! This could be the new "pretend to use iPad as iPhone" joke people have been looking for; shaking their macs in public areas and then explaining it's to undo mistakes
This has made my day! This could be the new "pretend to use iPad as iPhone" joke people have been looking for; shaking their macs in public areas and then explaining it's to undo mistakes
Voice-enabled auto-correction
Ha, "Shake-to-Undo", that's nothing compared to my "Voice-to-Correct!"
When I shout at my Mac: "You stupid f\/ck!" it automatically does The Right Thing(tm). And when I shout "What the Steve!" Lion automagically reverts the ugly buttons in Finder to the ones in Snow Leopard! And when I shout "That's extraordinary!" the ugly "real life" themes of iCal and Address Book are gone, too! And when I shout "That's the best OS we have ever done so far!" it switches to Linux
Ha, "Shake-to-Undo", that's nothing compared to my "Voice-to-Correct!"
When I shout at my Mac: "You stupid f\/ck!" it automatically does The Right Thing(tm). And when I shout "What the Steve!" Lion automagically reverts the ugly buttons in Finder to the ones in Snow Leopard! And when I shout "That's extraordinary!" the ugly "real life" themes of iCal and Address Book are gone, too! And when I shout "That's the best OS we have ever done so far!" it switches to Linux
Actually then iPad's on-screen keyboard has an "undo" under additional keys (Though it is a little glitchy). Also a lot of productivity apps have their own undo button.
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MacRumors unfortunately is home to a lot of uptight people. This is clearly a bit of fun, yet most of the replies are of outrage!
MacRumors unfortunately is home to a lot of uptight people. This is clearly a bit of fun, yet most of the replies are of outrage!
