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Cool powerbook software hack (requires most recent PowerBook)
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Diggory Laycock
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Mar 9, 2005, 09:39 AM
 
If you've got one of those new powerbooks with the side-scrolly trackpad and drives that try to protect themselves when dropped then have a look at this:

http://www.kernelthread.com/software/ams/


Sounds funky - It's only a matter of time before someone inventive ports SuperMonkeyBall!
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Fozz_uk
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Mar 11, 2005, 08:38 AM
 
Sounds very funky! All totally useless of course, but the "Perturbed Desktop" looks like a bit of a laugh, the thought of shaking a PowerBook and seeing the windows bounce around the screen is an amusing one...and should confuse the average spectator to the point of insanity...
Yadda, yadda, yadda...

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fisherKing
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Mar 11, 2005, 10:28 AM
 
old news...


http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=247807


(but, yes, it is cool)
"At first, there was Nothing. Then Nothing inverted itself and became Something.
And that is what you all are: inverted Nothings...with potential" (Sun Ra)
     
   
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