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Secret OS X feature (slow motion)

VinegarTasters

VinegarTasters

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Nov 20, 2007
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I just found this out... Is this news? Or does everyone know about this?
It is the slow motion secret keypress that slows all GUI animations.

 
Duff-Man says....time for the timeline...oh yeah!

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I didn't know that it worked with apps wonder what else it will work in.
 
If you do a "killall Dock" in the middle of a slow resize then the window will get stuck in its partially shrunk state... and still be usable!
 
Ddyracer said:
I didn't know that it worked with apps wonder what else it will work in.
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It works with everything as far as I know :) I’ve accidentally done it a year ago or so on a folder, or a picture. Since then I’ve been testing it out one everything else.

Select a picture file, then press SHIFT + Spacebar to make the preview appear slowly.

Select a folder, then press SHIFT + Double click at the same time to open it slowly.

It works with mission control, launchpad, and other features too, like if you have a key set to put everything by side and see only the desktop, or if you want to show all the open windows.

It’s really fun :) (and extremely useless of course, but we still love it, don’t we? :D)
 
I actually had a use for it. I couldn't find where a window was hidden (Pre-lion, so with spaces and expose) so I used that to watch where it was coming in from.
 
Nermal said:
If you do a "killall Dock" in the middle of a slow resize then the window will get stuck in its partially shrunk state... and still be usable!
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Or in the middle of a slow minimize. It leaves the window in the middle of the genie effect and still usable. It's kind of fun to play with.
 
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