Possible Duplicate:
What’s Your Favorite Harmless Computer Practical Joke?
Window's guys, seem to have all the fun.
So what about the Mac, what practical jokes can you play on people who own one?
Possible Duplicate:
What’s Your Favorite Harmless Computer Practical Joke?
Window's guys, seem to have all the fun.
So what about the Mac, what practical jokes can you play on people who own one?
Owning one?
Asking them to right-click? (yes, I know they can now)
Holding down Shift while initiating window animations such as Exposé makes them happen in slow motion. This lets you do things like:
killall Dock
but don't execute it yet.killall
.Since the Dock handles the minimization animation, killing it mid-minimize freezes the window in a contorted state. (This is most impressive when using the "Genie" minimization effect, but that's just my opinion.) Bizarrely, however, the window itself is still responsive—try using the keyboard!
This is platform agnostic, but its still my favorite:
Open a finder window (or any other window) and make sure the application for that window isn't the active application (i.e. the window is in the background). Hide the mouse and the dock and take a screen shot, and set that screen shot as the desktop picture. Now the it looks like you've got a frozen application that you can't find in the force quit list (since the window that is now part of the background image doesn't respond to mouse clicks). The best part is that its completely harmless to the computer as long as the user doesn't go berserk from frustration.