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Just found a cool trick in 10.4
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then, do you know that, whenever there's something animates, if you hold SHIFT key before doing it, it'll animate slowly
for example, minimizing a window by Shift-Clicking on the minimizing button, it'll slowly distorts and move to the dock.
same thing when you restore it from the dock.
if you have 3 monitors like i do, and put the dock all the way to the right side, and your window is on the left most monitor, it'll look awsome.
another one, in Dashboard, whenever you close a widget, hold Shift key and click on the X button, it'll slowly disappear.
again, samething when you open Dashboard or Expose. just hold the Shift key and see the windows move slowly around
yet another one, when in Dashboard, press Command-R and see what happens.
if you want to freak your friend out, borrow his Mac, go to System Preference, go to Universal Access, go to Seeing, and check on Use grayscale. from now, his screen will have no color at all.
for example, minimizing a window by Shift-Clicking on the minimizing button, it'll slowly distorts and move to the dock.
same thing when you restore it from the dock.
if you have 3 monitors like i do, and put the dock all the way to the right side, and your window is on the left most monitor, it'll look awsome.
another one, in Dashboard, whenever you close a widget, hold Shift key and click on the X button, it'll slowly disappear.
again, samething when you open Dashboard or Expose. just hold the Shift key and see the windows move slowly around
yet another one, when in Dashboard, press Command-R and see what happens.
if you want to freak your friend out, borrow his Mac, go to System Preference, go to Universal Access, go to Seeing, and check on Use grayscale. from now, his screen will have no color at all.
flyguy451 said:What am I doing wrong? It doesn't work for me.
"ctrl" and scroll just scrolls that's all.
check out in System Preference/Mouse..
there's an option: "Zoom using scroll wheel while holding___________" and basically you can choose to use either Control, Option, or Command to activate it.
these things aren't really "tricks". just dig in the Keyboard and Mouse settings you'll see them all
QuarterSwede said:
ARRHH!!! It doesn't do anything on my macbook...!! I don't wanna be left out - what is surposed to happen???
THANK you. Last night I had zoomed in by doing that accidentally and couldn't figure out how to undo it! Had to go under System Preferences and muck around! Now that I know how it's done, I'll know how it's undone.
Of course everybody knows you can make your comp tell you "knock knock" -jokes? Just turn on Speech recognition and say "Tell me a joke".
EDIT: Example:
You: Tell me a joke
OSX: Knock, knock.
You: Who's there?
OSX: Thayer.
You: Thayer who?
OSX: Thayer sorry and I won't tell the teacher.
EDIT: Example:
You: Tell me a joke
OSX: Knock, knock.
You: Who's there?
OSX: Thayer.
You: Thayer who?
OSX: Thayer sorry and I won't tell the teacher.
thworple said:Hey thats a neat way of doing that - more fun than CTRL+ALT+COMMAND+8!!
Now that's just ugly!
Yvan256 said:Wow, didn't know about that trick! Shows the power and flexibility of Open GL and Apple's GUI!
Another trick to show off to potential switchers!
As much as I like Mac OS X, I have to disagree. Features like this have been around since Windows 95, and don't require OpenGL.
If you want to see power and flexibilty, Google "XGL and compiz"
psycoswimmer said:Woah.
I was reading this thread and I thought "what the heck I'll give it a try on Windows XP".
And it worked.
EDIT: I've only tried it in Firefox, which it works in. It doesn't work on my desktop.
Firefox just changing the font size
u can do that on any browser under mac os x using Apple+scrolling
or in XP, ctrl + scrolling
that is some 97 techonlogy i think
I just realised - 10.4.8 also includes the "right click using trackpad" option for those MBPs which didn't previously support it. Yaaay!
whooleytoo said:I just realised - 10.4.8 also includes the "right click using trackpad" option for those MBPs which didn't previously support it. Yaaay!
sorry, but that was 10.4.7
ruutiveijari said:
I remember doing this in the mac labs back in highschool. Great fun watching the teacher try and figure out how 'those dang kids' made the mac's talk. Gah, teachers.
I should dig into that again with a proper mic. It would be nice to launch most of my apps without kbd shortcuts.
In firefox on windows, it'll zoom the text but not the actual page. Apparently it also works in windows. Its funny cause i just learned that from a thread from like two days ago or something.