how to open stacks in slow motion

[bluedoggiant]

im not sure if you guys remember in the WWDC07, jobs opened and closed the stacks in slow motion to show everyone how cool it is, i thought he had this different copy of leopard that can do that, today, i accidentally pressed on shift while click on a stack, the stack opened in slow motion, try it

hold down shift while clicking a stack, then let go of the shift, its really cool, i thought it was worth posting about

 

[motulist]

hold down shift and open it the same normal way.

 

[72930]

Same as other effects (exposé, dashboard coming in etc.) in OSX...

 

[xUKHCx]

hold down shift and open it the same normal way.

read the post, not just the title.

BTW shift works on all sorts of things such as dashboard and expose.

 

[bluedoggiant]

Same as other effects (exposé, dashboard coming in etc.) in OSX...

read the post, not just the title.

BTW shift works on all sorts of things such as dashboard and expose.

really? i didnt know that, well, i thought it was a first discovery, i think its cool, right now im minimizing safari in slow motion using the genie effect

 

[xUKHCx]

really? i didnt know that, well, i thought it was a first discovery, i think its cool, right now im minimizing safari in slow motion using the genie effect

There is a very useless but kind of cool thing you can do with that.
If you get a terminal window open with the phrase "killall Dock" without quotes but don't press enter. Then press the minimise button with shift held down. As it minises quickly switch to the terminal window and press enter. You will end up with a fully scrollable + working window that is stuck in the genie minimise effect. I am currently writing this post from the window below.

And if you don't believe it is scrollable i will scroll it down and take another shot.

 

[xUKHCx]

duplicate post.

It can be hard to correctly hit buttons though, as they aren't where the display (case in point this duplicate post) and it does get very annoying after a little while but still quite cool.

 

[Mernak]

There is a very useless but kind of cool thing you can do with that.
If you get a terminal window open with the phrase "killall Dock" without quotes but don't press enter. Then press the minimise button with shift held down. As it minises quickly switch to the terminal window and press enter. You will end up with a fully scrollable + working window that is stuck in the genie minimise effect. I am currently writing this post from the window below.

And if you don't believe it is scrollable i will scroll it down and take another shot.

That is awesome, I have knew that before. Another random thing on that is that if you restart the dock and minimize the oddly shaped window, it will stay that shape in the dock (but, alas, when you click it it goes back to normal)

 

[///alpinepower]

are stacks all that special? i have my dock on the side, so i don't get to use them.

 

[xUKHCx]

are stacks all that special? i have my dock on the side, so i don't get to use them.

yeah you do, you just don't get the fan view because it would look like a penis.

 

[bluedoggiant]

are stacks all that special? i have my dock on the side, so i don't get to use them.

i have my dock on the side, stacks work either way, they just HAVE to open in a grid when the dock is on the side, stacks are cool, i have an iwork, iLife, documents, and downloads stack, very useful

 

[theman]

yeah you do, you just don't get the fan view because it would look like a penis.

dude, you just won the award for making me laugh for the first time today. lol.

 

[bluedoggiant]

dude, you just won the award for making me laugh for the first time today. lol.

same here

 

[xUKHCx]

But you see what I mean though.

Imagine when they first put it in and they were probably all in awe about how good it looked. Then someone came in from outside the stacks dev team and just started laughing as it took form.

I sort of thought that might have been edited out but it made it through the profanity filter.