Neat Useless Tricks for Mac OSX

[GreyFox1221]

There are plenty of these cool tricks. Post yours.

- Shift Click to make animations go slow (For Expose hit Shift+F9)
- Command+Option+Control+8 make the colors go negative

 

[Heb1228]

Turn on Speech in system prefs and you can ask your computer what time it is and get it to tell you a knock-knock joke.

 

[kalisphoenix]

- Command+Option+Control+8 make the colors go negative

Yeah, I love that one. I do that instead of having a "dark" Shapeshifter theme.

I have nothing. Uh, type 'cal -y | open -f' in the terminal and get a yearly calender opened up for you in TextEdit?

 

[zach]

- Command+Option+Control+8 make the colors go negative

otherwise known as "late night wardriving" mode

shift also works on dashboard.. uhm, what else. i know there are others, i show em off all the time, but for the life of me i just can't think of them..

 

[puckhead193]

- Command+Option+Control+8 make the colors go negative

how do u make go back to normal?

 

[mad jew]

how do u make go back to normal?

Press them again.

 

[applemacdude]

how do u make go back to normal?

press them again

 

[stevietheb]

otherwise known as "late night wardriving" mode

shift also works on dashboard.. uhm, what else. i know there are others, i show em off all the time, but for the life of me i just can't think of them..

Rain clouds in the weather widget look particularly cool in this mode.

I use this late at night when my eyes start to hurt from all the brightness of my display...or if I'm in the same room as my wife and she's trying to sleep.

 

[Phat_Pat]

click on a widget and hit [apple]+R

in terminal type in telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

ummm...... i gotta think of some more....

 

[neocell]

click on a widget and hit [apple]+R

in terminal type in telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

ummm...... i gotta think of some more....

What does the telnet line do?

 

[Phat_Pat]

What does the telnet line do?

 

[cruxed]

curious as well

 

[neocell]

When I tried it nothing happened, that's why I asked. I'll try again

**EDIT**

Nope, still nothing

 

[neocell]

I like this one stridey posted in another thread

You want something REALLY cool? The same trick work with the minimize to dock button (shift-click it for a slow minimize to dock). So:

Open a window. Any window. Open Terminal, but situate the Terminal window so the minimize button on the first window is still visible. Type "killall Dock" into the terminal, but don't hit enter yet. Shift-click the minimize button (still keeping the terminal window as the front window), and *BEFORE* the window being minimized touches the dock hit enter. Witness the coolness.

 

[MacVM]

Turn on Speech in system prefs and you can ask your computer what time it is and get it to tell you a knock-knock joke.

This worked for me the first 3 times I tried it (when I first got it), but now it won't tell me any more jokes. Where am I supposed to get my fill now?

 

[savar]

I like this one stridey posted in another thread

What's supposed to happen?

edit: nevermind, i got it to work...nifty

 

[StokeLee]

Yeah, I love that one. I do that instead of having a "dark" Shapeshifter theme.

I have nothing. Uh, type 'cal -y | open -f' in the terminal and get a yearly calender opened up for you in TextEdit?

How do you make it choose a particular year? This would be so handy for when i make a new yearly calendar at work..

 

[Jay42]

shift also works on dashboard.. uhm, what else. i know there are others, i show em off all the time, but for the life of me i just can't think of them..

Yeah shift minimize is pretty amazing. They're not gonna even have that in Vista.

Wow, that starwars thing is awesome. How long is it?!?

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

How do you make it choose a particular year? This would be so handy for when i make a new yearly calendar at work..

Just insert a year instead of the -y flag:

cal 2345 | open -f

 

[swindmill]

I like this one stridey posted in another thread

That was pretty cool, but I had to quit the app to get the window to go away. Is there another way to get it back to normal?

 

[Nickygoat]

That was pretty cool, but I had to quit the app to get the window to go away. Is there another way to get it back to normal?

I just click cmd-W and it goes or you can hit minimise and it finishes minimising. Works on mine anyway

 

[neocell]

That was pretty cool, but I had to quit the app to get the window to go away. Is there another way to get it back to normal?

Just minimize it to the dock and then expand it.

**EDIT**
Sorry. Should read the whole thread first. SMRT

 

[stevietheb]

in terminal type in telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Sweet special effects...

 

[stevietheb]

Yeah shift minimize is pretty amazing. They're not gonna even have that in Vista.

Windows is sooooo far behind...how could you possibly have a decent OS without slow-mo minimize?

hehe...

I especially like to do this across multiple screens...it feels nice.

 

[neocell]

Any reason why the telnet line wouldn't work? I've copied and pasted so no typos. ??