'Notchmeister' Lets You Decorate the Notch on Your MacBook Pro

[Makosuke]

For those of us who grew up on things like The Talking Moose, this is some fine old-school fun.

And actually, the glow one--since it's subtle--borders on genuinely useful, since it shows where the pointer is without being too distracting, so gives the impression you can see the pointer even when it's not visible. I'm almost certainly leaving that one on even when the goofy novelty wears off.

 

[coolkid93]

HAPPY NOTCHmes !

 

[coolkid93]

Now that’s top notch

 

[sahni130]

This is totally random and dumb but I wish somebody would bring back Bonzi Buddy without all the malware and viruses

 

[svish]

Very funny and interesting!!

 

[WilburMercer]

This is fabulous and reminds me of when I started surfing the web in 1995. Websites would do silly stuff like this and it was great.

 

[smirking]

Aye! We’re about to have a notch party. Step up your game, LOL!

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OMG! I like this! That actually looks pretty cool.

 

[BanjoDudeAhoy]

For anyone like myself who was initially confused, the first image has a row of Xmas tree lights, not nooses.

Oh boy… I recognized it correctly first, but I went back and now I see nooses ?

This is so silly that I’m going to install it right away.

 

[gpat]

This app likely caused repeated crashes and a forced logout on my 16" when used with an external monitor. Beware

 

[robertcoogan]

Don't worry you can still download it and use the "replacement notch" that comes with it.

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This is like paying someone to scratch up a car's paintjob right after you've bought it.

 

[robertcoogan]

Oh man, what a great idea. I hope they put notches on everything and they grow with more features every year.

Notches are quintisentialy apple

Notches are quintessentially Apple. They are proof that the company doesn't always do the right thing design-wise. I'm going to file the notch away with the 20th-Century Macintosh and the Newton.

Hopefully it goes away in time, and sooner rather than later. That notch is what led me to replace my 2016 MBP with a refurbished 2019 MBP, instead of a newer silicon MBP.

 

[robertcoogan]

This is awesome and fun. It reminds me of the old Mac community that was full of humor and whimsey.

Yes, true! Apps like ShapeShifter and MetamorphX with sites like ResExcellence were my haunts.

 

[gpat]

That notch is what led me to replace my 2016 MBP with a refurbished 2019 MBP, instead of a newer silicon MBP.

You can't be serious

 

[Hmm]

This is fun — reminds me of the Talking Moose, which for those of you too young to remember, was an animated moose that occasionally popped down from the menu bar to say something amusing. I miss that little guy.

Me too!

 

[Hmm]

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)…

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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. ?

That sound similar to the old Sexplosion program which displayed a System Error “bomb” dialog, but when you try to click the Restart button, the button would move away from the mouse pointer, forcing you to chase the button around the screen.

 

[PC_tech]

When you wait for iOS 15.3 but instead you get the opportunity to jingle the notch's balls. ?

Tickle tickle

 

[ikunalz]

Don't worry you can still download it and use the "replacement notch" that comes with it.

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The developers thought of everything!

 

[ikunalz]

This is awesome and fun. It reminds me of the old Mac community that was full of humor and whimsey.

Yes! We need more of that now!

 

[ChromeAce]

A condition of getting approval for the App Store is that your app NOT call attention to the notch in any way.

 

[lederermc]

This app reminds me of the "More Cow Bell" SNL skit.

 

[0924487]

That's so cute~

 

[Mr.Brossard]

The modern equivalent of tassels hanging from the windshield of a Ford Fiesta.

 

[brofkand]

I'm still baffled by the notch. It seems completely unnecessary. I guess the thing was they wanted to do Face ID, but couldn't at the last minute, rather than delay the launch to re-engineer the display they just rolled with the huge notch.

 

[Makosuke]

This is totally random and dumb but I wish somebody would bring back Bonzi Buddy without all the malware and viruses

I'll take a resurrection of the Talking Moose if I'm going to have a random dumb thing talking to me on my computer screen. The fact that nobody has (as best I can tell) built a version or clone that runs on a modern Mac is a crying shame.

There is, it turns out, a Windows version by the original author, but it the absolute most nightmare-fuel version of the Moose I can imagine. How anyone could create that monstrosity is beyond me.

I'm still baffled by the notch. It seems completely unnecessary. I guess the thing was they wanted to do Face ID, but couldn't at the last minute, rather than delay the launch to re-engineer the display they just rolled with the huge notch.

To me, the existence of the notch in general seems like a fantastic use of screen real-estate in a world in which the camera has to take up some space. I now have a screen the exact same size and ratio as my previous MacBook Pro, but I also have an additional stripe at the top for the menu bar that was previously just black glass to leave room for the camera.

Basically, I'm getting a free half-inch of vertical screen, and because the MacOS always has the menu bar up there, having a little chunk missing in the middle of it is basically no loss at all. The only mistake was not either making the menu bar black by default, or having a wallpaper with a black stripe at the top as the default.

If your complaint is about how big it is horizontally, it is about twice as wide as it needs to be, but only twice, since it's not just the camera in there--there's a light sensor to the left of the camera and the indicator LED to the right

 

[Hawker 800]

I'm still baffled by the notch. It seems completely unnecessary. I guess the thing was they wanted to do Face ID, but couldn't at the last minute, rather than delay the launch to re-engineer the display they just rolled with the huge notch.

There’s a free app that hides the notch.

TopNotch for macOS

Makes the notch disappear like a ninja.

topnotch.app