cool OSX trick!

[ero87]

Hey guys,

So I just figured this little trick out... we all know that holding down SHIFT while minimizing gives us a slow-motion effect. But did you know that holding CTRL + SHIFT makes it super slow-mo! Pretty cool, and useless, but nice for showing off 🙂

 

[killmoms]

That's a pretty old trick... Old like forever. Fun to find on your own though, I'm surprised you hadn't heard of it before. You can also do this on Exposé animations.

 

[ero87]

That's a pretty old trick... Old like forever. Fun to find on your own though, I'm surprised you hadn't heard of it before. You can also do this on Exposé animations.

hmm it doesn't work on expose for me, only the shift effect does. CTRL seems to cancel the action.

 

[backsidetailsli]

cooooool i used it on this window! haha

 

[MacRumoron]

i saw steve jobs do this in one of his keynotes.. but what is the point of it? 🙄

 

[Sherman Homan]

i saw steve jobs do this in one of his keynotes.. but what is the point of it? 🙄

What is the point of it?!?! Try this:
control option apple 8

 

[mkrishnan]

What is the point of it?!?! Try this:
control option apple 8

That actually has a proper usage, though! It's a visibility enhancer for people with eyesight problems.

 

[ChickenSwartz]

i saw steve jobs do this in one of his keynotes.. but what is the point of it? 🙄

I was working at a 30'' ACD for a while with about 10 Excel windows open, 10 matlab, and a couple text documents, when you use Exposé with that many windows on that size screen it can make you motion sick. It was making me sick after a few hours of use, I would close my eyes hit F9 then open them again. Than a friend told me about this, didn't make me sick any more.

 

[trainguy77]

Yes this is one of those things I show off to my windows friends 😀

 

[eb6]

shift+ctrl+apple will do a medium slow mo. not that it matters 🙂

 

[Lixivial]

Building on this, there's also this well-established one that's kinda fun, too...

It's really fun in things like Parallels, or BasiliskII. 😉

 

[hotboiled]

1 open terminal

2 type= killall dock

dont press enter !!

3 go to your safari window and slow-motion minimize it

4 then go ASAP to the terminal and press enter ....


now your safari window is stuck !! but SCROLLEBLE AND KLICKABLE 😱 😀 😀
looks cool with long webpages



to make it go away
type in the terminal = killall dock and press enter



Lixivial AAA you beat me to it

 

[MagicWok]

Same thing can be done for Dashboard...

Hold Shift+F12.

I like the Ctrl+Option++Apple+8

 

[SpookTheHamster]

What is the point of it?!?! Try this:
control option apple 8

Holy crap! My eyes! You bastard!

 

[krestfallen]

1 open terminal

2 type= killall dock

dont press enter !!

3 go to your safari window and slow-motion minimize it

4 then go ASAP to the terminal and press enter ....


now your safari window is stuck !! but SCROLLEBLE AND KLICKABLE 😱 😀 😀
looks cool with long webpages



to make it go away
type in the terminal = killall dock and press enter



Lixivial AAA you beat me to it

awesome trick! this works? i'll try that immediately when i'm back home :-D

 

[gr8tfly]

ROFL - that's a hoot. Just a minor glitch - "dock" s/b "Dock" (capitolized)

Just did it with Yahoo home page. any page linked to it will render in the same fun-house way. Vertical scrolling is just creepy!

thanks!

btw: it does restart Dashboard, so be prepared for the normal after boot delays in using Widgets while they all intialize.

 

[Anna]

another boring trick

this is way boring!!!
but .... if you hold down the control key while scrolling ... your screen gets bigger.... yes i know WHO CARES!!!! lol

 

[mkrishnan]

this is way boring!!!
but .... if you hold down the control key while scrolling ... your screen gets bigger.... yes i know WHO CARES!!!! lol

Actually, this is a relatively new feature of OS X! It only became available on all Macs in one of the recent dot upgrades to Tiger.... There was always a Universal Access zoom feature, but never anything so easy to use.

Imagine when this feature gets paired with a resolution independent display in Leopard, though! You'll zoom in and increase detail as well as size! 😀 It'll be amazing!