[I WAS the One]

anyone knows any tricks beside the one that you can minimize windows at slow speed, that one is boring!!!
bring it on!!!

[Developer]

When you hold down the command key while clicking a window title, a popup menu pops up.

[zachs]

1. Open Terminal and type "killall Dock". Don't hit enter!

2. Have a window open in the background. With the Terminal window still in front, shift-click the minimize button of the background window to put in slow motion.

3. Once the minimize effect has started, hit enter.

Have fun!

[CharlesS]

^ ^ Ha ha, that's awesome!

[gorickey]

Originally posted by CharlesS:
^ ^ Ha ha, that's awesome!

Agreed!

[Peabo]

Yeah, that's really cool! You can even resize the distorted window & scroll up and down etc! It's really funky. Look what I did (keep in mind the window was origianlly square when I first minimized it):

stretch

[SSharon]

Now try it with a Quicktime movie open or something and have even more fun.

Great tip btw.

Side note: expose ignores windows that you do this to. I wonder if you can do this to one window then move the dock to the sides and do it again and have frozen windows all over . . .

[I WAS the One]

wow!!! thats scare me a little bit!!! but it was fun!!!

[mdc]

another slow motion tip is to hold shift and press the expose f9, f10, f11 keys.

a windows using friend was over recently and i had my powerbook hooked up to my tv and her eyes were huge when she saw me use expose.

so i did what any proud osX user would do. i opened loads of textedit documents,a quicktime movie, held shift, and pressed f9
she could not believe that the movie still played.

[RooneyX]

I thought the app was fubar for a sec.

[Peorth]

press the ctrl + option + command + #8 keys.

Turns the screen's colors to black and white and various grays. To change back, hit the same keys again.

Pretty interesting.

[GeneShifter]

Originally posted by Peorth:
press the ctrl + option + command + #8 keys.

Turns the screen's colors to black and white and various grays. To change back, hit the same keys again.

Pretty interesting.

HAHA, that is way cool!!! Thx for that tip. I'm gonna have to try this at school and freak some people out

[nobitacu]

Wow, nice tips! I'm using the black and white effect right now hehehe, looks pretty cool.

Ming

[Brass]

I like the COMMAND-OPTION-"+" and COMMAND-OPTION-"-" to zoom in and out (use repeatedly to zoom in further).

Then use the mouse to scroll near the edges of the screen.

(NB: You may need to use COMMAND-OPTION-"8" to turn enable/disable this feature).

[CheesePuff]

Damn... I did it with the Safari window of this web page open (the killall Dock trick) and I'm browsing the forums and typing this reply with the window half minimized, with all text and images on a slant downwards, including the scroll bar which works.

[CharlesS]

How about this adaptation: Old meets new.

[cdhostage]

Finder 6 is down! Finder 6 is down!

[Peorth]

Originally posted by nobitacu:
Wow, nice tips! I'm using the black and white effect right now hehehe, looks pretty cool.

Ming

I was so tempted to do that to a couple of the computers at the local Apple Store but was afraid that they would freak out on me. But I love the idea just the same.

[MasonMcD]

Ahh. Doesn't work with 10.3.3 though.

[alex_kac]

Which doesn't work in 10.3.3?

[I WAS the One]

the zoom effect is awsome!!!! WOOOHOOOO!!!!! Im in the twightlight zone!!!!! yehaaaa

[Numenor]

Damn... this B/W thing kicks ass. Anyone know what it was originally intended for?

[::maroma::]

Originally posted by Numenor:
Damn... this B/W thing kicks ass. Anyone know what it was originally intended for?

It's part of the Universal Access pref pane. You can adjust the contrast by using the Command-Option-Control-<comma> and <period>.

[RooneyX]

Originally posted by Brass:
I like the COMMAND-OPTION-"+" and COMMAND-OPTION-"-" to zoom in and out (use repeatedly to zoom in further).

Then use the mouse to scroll near the edges of the screen.

(NB: You may need to use COMMAND-OPTION-"8" to turn enable/disable this feature).

Whoa. I don't need weed no more.

[-Q-]

Originally posted by Numenor:
Damn... this B/W thing kicks ass. Anyone know what it was originally intended for?

It's for people with difficulty seeing. It's sometimes easier for them to see text in that color scheme than the normal one used.

[cdhostage]

The color-inversion is more useful to me late at night. Look at the Universal Access pane and choose White-On-Black, and all your colors invert. This is great for when your eyes are tired. It's not so great for viewing any sort of graphic content; for me at least, the constant VWUH? is tiring. I'm inverted right now, lying on my back with my eyes closed most of the time, typing on my 15AL propped up on a pillow. I'll open my eyes to correct mistakes and send, and then go back to typing something else. A few emails to send.

One "trick" in Safari Panther is Command-K which you might hit reaching for Command-L. It activates and deactivates the Pop-up Block. No noticeable change , you start typing in the address, nothing happens and you hit Command-L and try again. And popups ensue.

<hmm. No errors. My typing is better.>

[MasonMcD]

Originally posted by alex_kac:
Which doesn't work in 10.3.3?

Hitting "enter" as the terminal is minimizing. It gives the error sound.

[MindFad]

Originally posted by MasonMcD:
Hitting "enter" as the terminal is minimizing. It gives the error sound.

No, minimize a different window (shift-click for slow-mo), not the terminal one. Then hit enter in the terminal as the other window is minimizing.

[Big Mac]

Boy, I'm really impressed by the zoom feature. Notably, it doesn't take up any processor power to perform. If I had not known about this feature, seeing a Mac in such a state would have freaked me out! I hope the guy who wanted to play a trick on his coworker has read this thread. Wow, this is really freaky - it looks a lot like WebTV.

[ryaxnb]

Originally posted by z0ne81:
Yeah, that's really cool! You can even resize the distorted window & scroll up and down etc! It's really funky. Look what I did (keep in mind the window was origianlly square when I first minimized it):

stretch

Woah! That is funny! And believe it or not, I'm actually typing this while the window his gone crazy!

[ryaxnb]

Originally posted by Peorth:
press the ctrl + option + command + #8 keys.

Turns the screen's colors to black and white and various grays. To change back, hit the same keys again.

Pretty interesting.

It's supposed to be a Universal Access feature. (There's also a control in the Universal A prefpane.) Here's another Universal Access feature/trick (Panther only): Press Command+Option+Control+period (.). And press again and again until nothing happens. Icons go crazy, desktop pictures look crude, and text looks weird. (To fix it, press Command+Option+Control+commma several times)
Bonus: before you do this, open the Universal Access prefpane and hit Set Display to Grayscale. When you're finished, you've got a black & white display!

[bkb]

Originally posted by ryaxnb:
When you're finished, you've got a black & white display!

Cool!!!!

[heidilux]

Holding down option while hitting F1 or F2 (the monitor F-keys) opens up the monitors prefpane. Option + F3,4,or5 opens up the sound pane.

Not as slick as the minimize trick, but concievably more useful.

[Love Calm Quiet]

"press the ctrl + option + command + #8 keys.
Turns the screen's colors to black and white and various grays. "

Doing that I noticed that for a moment of transition to W&B there was a reversal of colors. So...

While I had the colors set on W&B/B&W, using the Universal Access panel to click "Set Display to Color" gave me reversed COLORS - an amazing look.

[SSharon]

control f2 lets you use the KB to navigate through the menus (esc exits)

control f3 lets you cylce through the dock like command-tab used to work (esc exits)

control f4 cycles apps without the big bar coming up like command-tab, but it only goes through the last 3 used apps (I think)

[Mithras]

Control-click on an application in the dock, popping up the menu. Leave the menu there -- don't click again.

Now tap F10 (or your Expos� key) a whole buncha times.

When you're ready, click again to close the dock menu. Gaah!
Nice to leave a friend or colleague's Mac in that about-to-go-nuts state... (If you want to downright irritate them, do a bunch of shift-F10s while the dock menu is up)

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by heidilux:
Holding down option while hitting F1 or F2 (the monitor F-keys) opens up the monitors prefpane. Option + F3,4,or5 opens up the sound pane.

Not as slick as the minimize trick, but concievably more useful.

These will only work on the built-in PowerBook keyboard. On desktop machines, or PowerBooks with a USB Apple keyboard attached, you can get to the sound pane with option + the volume adjust buttons.

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by Mithras:
Control-click on an application in the dock, popping up the menu. Leave the menu there -- don't click again.

Now tap F10 (or your Expos� key) a whole buncha times.

When you're ready, click again to close the dock menu. Gaah!
Nice to leave a friend or colleague's Mac in that about-to-go-nuts state... (If you want to downright irritate them, do a bunch of shift-F10s while the dock menu is up)

Now that's just evil!

[kovacs]

Originally posted by Mithras:
Control-click on an application in the dock, popping up the menu. Leave the menu there -- don't click again.

Now tap F10 (or your Expos� key) a whole buncha times.

When you're ready, click again to close the dock menu. Gaah!
Nice to leave a friend or colleague's Mac in that about-to-go-nuts state... (If you want to downright irritate them, do a bunch of shift-F10s while the dock menu is up)

Wow great, works even better with F9

[bierslayer]

Originally posted by Mithras:
Control-click on an application in the dock, popping up the menu. Leave the menu there -- don't click again.

Now tap F10 (or your Expos� key) a whole buncha times.

When you're ready, click again to close the dock menu. Gaah!
Nice to leave a friend or colleague's Mac in that about-to-go-nuts state... (If you want to downright irritate them, do a bunch of shift-F10s while the dock menu is up)

Go one step further....do exactly as above but hold the shift key while tapping F10 (or F9) a whole buncha times. Wheeeeee!

[BurpetheadX]

Originally posted by Numenor:
Damn... this B/W thing kicks ass. Anyone know what it was originally intended for?

It's also use for film negative processing.

[RooneyX]

Originally posted by Mithras:
Control-click on an application in the dock, popping up the menu. Leave the menu there -- don't click again.

Now tap F10 (or your Expos� key) a whole buncha times.

When you're ready, click again to close the dock menu.

OSX does John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.

[Cipher13]

BTW, the black-on-white comes in very handy when wardriving at night or something

[MasonMcD]

Originally posted by MindFad:
No, minimize a different window (shift-click for slow-mo), not the terminal one. Then hit enter in the terminal as the other window is minimizing.

Doesn't work in 10.3.3 anymore, apparently. It won't minimize the window.

[mdc]

since shift seems to slow down osX animation. i played around and i found that in the system preferences you can hold shift and click on groups and it slows the resize and fade in/out.

looks very cool

[THE MAC GOD]

Originally posted by mdc:
since shift seems to slow down osX animation. i played around and i found that in the system preferences you can hold shift and click on groups and it slows the resize and fade in/out.

looks very cool

Heh... that's crazy...

[moonmonkey]

Originally posted by BurpetheadX:
It's also use for film negative processing.

hmmm. Thanks! great tip

[Love Calm Quiet]

mdc:

Sorry to be dense, but I'm not sure which preferences pane you mean when you say, "you can hold shift and click on groups" -- There is no overall "System Preferences" (except "Show all" - in which I find nothing labeled "groups").

Clarification?

[mdc]

sorry for being so vague.

let me try again.
open system preferences > hold shift > click on *any* of the icons in there _other_ than the "show all" one

[Ratm]

Originally posted by Mithras:
Control-click on an application in the dock, popping up the menu. Leave the menu there -- don't click again.

Now tap F10 (or your Expos� key) a whole buncha times.

When you're ready, click again to close the dock menu. Gaah!
Nice to leave a friend or colleague's Mac in that about-to-go-nuts state... (If you want to downright irritate them, do a bunch of shift-F10s while the dock menu is up)

you evil person..U. But if you hit F11....now you have something.