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'Notchmeister' Lets You Decorate the Notch on Your MacBook Pro
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Thanks for reminding me of talking moose!
Not to mention that mouse pointer gravity hack - it still worked but fell to the bottom of the screen, just slowly enough that you could still place the pointer if you worked at it. Oh, my God, my PhD advisors combination of livid and amused. ??
Not to mention that mouse pointer gravity hack - it still worked but fell to the bottom of the screen, just slowly enough that you could still place the pointer if you worked at it. Oh, my God, my PhD advisors combination of livid and amused. ??
?? We need some silliness in the world
Do the ornaments swing when you move your MBP?
actually, I have not worded my post good, my statement "NOT" is not based on the MBPs having a notch (I actually think the notch makes sense), I just don't have the need for a more powerful notebook at this time ...
I wish they had an enhanced version of the Moose app brought up to date! Lots of memories.
If your wallpaper is solid black on the top, you'll never notice the notch. Totally forgot about it.
Gee, your comment brings back mem’ries, Sir.
The great, simpler “pre-iPod” days, when a bomb could destroy a whole day of work but we still loved our Macs like loyal pets.
And the OSX app that made it snow on your desktop with snow actually landing on all the visible windows.
And when you moved or hid a window, the snow fell down.
We talking about the same guy…?
I think you guys both have your rosy retrospection glasses on!
Simpl'r times, my friend.
Honestly, of all of their storied decades, the 2000s were some of the more exciting and just plain fun in the Mac community. It was their sweetest of spots: not quite the counter-culture artists and freaks of their earlier days, not yet the full blown ~$3T company they are today, but something perfectly in-between: still scrappy but now with a healthy budget. Aka: dangerous. I feel so lucky to have known that era. If I could pin point one thing that altered the community most (aside from Steve's passing), is was their decision to kill the launch day in-store events in favor of online ordering. That decision single-handedly sucked the soul out of the brand, out of the community, and turned it into just another tech company that launched their products online. All in the name of convenience and (obviously) more "launch day" sales. Is it more convenient to roll over at 1 am, tap the screen a coupe of times, and go back to bed with your pre-order secured? Maybe, but it is definitely a lot less fun. For it's in inconvenience where real life happens. Where the action is. I might go as far as calling "convenience" the silent killer of our generation. With convenience comes aspects like lethargy and complacency, which can breed depression and discord. For me, there was little better than getting in a line embarrassingly early and watching that line slowly fill, the energy slowly build, sharing stories with other Mac-nerds - it was almost better than walking out of the store with that '07 iPhone. Almost. The scene was so much lighter, fun, silly, creative, supportive, united, human. And while it is inevitable that scenes change and evolve (or devolve), the part I have not enjoyed is how we now treat each other. All discourse now boils down to black or white. Zero grey. There is no middle ground. Which is sad because actual life happens in the grey. The grey is where the mattering lives. The fringe is dead weight. Pointless. That said, it's where we are right now. But "right now" is temporary, fleeting. Hopefully the pendulum can swing back towards something more patient, more listening, more forgiving, more supportive, more human. I'm in. Whose with me?
Yeah, me too. I keep hoping for more indications that the people who made this kind of fun stuff are still out there. I think they mostly all just got older and lost the sense of fun, or switched to working on 'real' Mac stuff…
I miss downloading seasonal and movie tie-in icon packs from the Iconfactory, and neat system extensions or applications that had a singular fun purpose like this.
didn't know it existed, but I feel like I need it.
My list: 1. envelopes and packages seem to come out of the notch as if it was a mail slot when you get email; 2. a pizza box comes out of the slot when your order is delivered to your door; 3. the Millennium Falcon comes out of the notch pursued by Tie fighters and lasers
I love that this thread has brought the old-timers out.
My first prank software was one I wrote myself… a little Apple Script that I put on my boss's Mac while he was out of the office. I disguised it as his work folder with the good old icon copy-and-paste trick. ?
When he came back in and double-clicked his 'Jobs' folder, he was presented with something like this (dramatic reenactment)…
I think it must have been System 7, and I'm pretty sure it was a modal dialog—one that locked him out of the OS until he responded to it. ? I wasn't in the office to witness the moment, but he told me later that he pulled the power and restarted. ?
Reminds me of Holiday Lights for Windows and then whatever the OS X version of that was called. Actually got the default iPadOS wallpaper and put a bunch of the holiday related emoji to do a similar thing on my new iPad Mini just for fun a few weeks ago.
TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️
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It's too bad and a total shame Apple did not even bother to provide us with a solid black on top wallpaper. Heck, we didn't even get any dynamic wallpapers.
When they did so with the iPhone, people said it was marketing trick to cover up the notch. People will never be happy.
