<strong>How the hell did you happen to come across this?</strong><hr></blockquote>I was just curious yesterday and tried out the modifiers on some keys I hadn't tried before.
Since this is a thread for cool jaguar-goodies, here's something I read about:
if you go to terminal and run the ScreenSaverEngine with the -background flag, you can run Screen Effects as a desktop background! The abstract pictures look particularly good morphing on the desktop. The exact path is:
for those wondering about hotket assigning, get the freeware app youpikey (check versiontracker, or in the software directory of your .mac account, if you have one). unfortunately, the documentation is a bit "rough," but wow, it does SO MUCH... and free, too!
I must say that I am in shock and awe that you guys dug up my seven-month-old thread and are posting random features that are totally unrelated to the rest of the discussion here.
It's not new in Jag. It worked for me when I was running 10.1.5. Should I have told people about this? I always thought option-whatever was obvious. Like, it brings up options...
Deter goldfish from having sex by throwing a small bucket of air over
any that you catch in the act.
Ah, you sound like a man who used to read Viz.
Some more top tips:
If a small child is choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a jug of boiling water down its throat and hey presto! the blockage is almost instantly removed.
Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away.
Keep the seat next to you on the train vacant by smiling and nodding at people as they walk up the aisle.
Save on booze by drinking cold tea instead of whisky. The following morning you can create the effects of a hangover by drinking a thimble full of washing up liquid and banging your head repeatedly on the wall.
Make bath times as much fun for kiddies as a visit to the seaside by pouring a bucket of sand, a bag of salt and a dog turd into the bath.
Recreate the fun of a visit to a public swimming pool in your own home by filling the bath with cold water, adding two bottles of bleach, then urinating into it, before jumping in.
Girls. Too old to go on an 18 to 30 holiday? Simply get pissed, lie in a sand pit in your garden and shag every bloke who looks at you over the fence.
An empty aluminium cigar tube filled with angry wasps makes an inexpensive vibrator.
Avoid arguments with the missus about lifting the loo seat by simply pissing in the sink.
Weedy fellas. Develop a right forearm like Arnold Schwarzeneggar by buying one of those Cindy Crawford workout videos.
Smokers. Save on matches and lighters, by simply lighting your next fag from the butt of your last one.
Vegetarians coming to dinner? Simply serve them a nice bit of steak or veal. Since they're always going on about how tofu, Quorn, meat substitute etc 'tastes exactly like the real thing', they won't know any difference.
Invited by vegetarians for dinner? Point out that since you'd no doubt be made aware of their special dietary requirements, tell them about yours, and ask for a nice steak.
Before attempting to remove stubborn stains from a garment always circle the stain in permanent pen so that when you remove the garment from the washing machine you can easily locate the area of the stain and check that it has gone.
Give comics that 'Pulp Fiction' feel by reading the last frames of cartoons first, then reading the rest in a random order.
High blood pressure sufferers. Simply cut yourself and bleed for a while, thus reducing the pressure in your veins.
Heavy smokers. Don't throw away those filters from the end of your cigarettes. Save them up and within a few years you'll have enough to insulate your loft.
Motorists. Enjoy the freedom of cycling by removing your windscreen, sticking half a melon skin on you head, then jumping red lights and driving the wrong way up one way streets.
A mouse trap, placed on top on of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep.
Create instant designer stubble by sucking a magnet and dipping your chin
into a bowl of iron filings.
X-Files fans. Create the effect of being abducted by aliens by drinking two
bottles of vodka. You'll invariably wake up in a strange place the following
morning, having had your memory mysteriously 'erased'.
A Hedgehog trained to scuttle up and down the table from guest to guest
makes an unusual mobile cheese and pineapple cube nibble dispenser at
cocktail parties.
Make cheap but effective baby rattles by gluing a lollipop stickto an empty
matchbox, then filling it with ten woodlice.
Save money on expensive personalised car number plates by simply changing your name to match your existing plate.
Don't waste money buying expensive binoculars. Simply stand closer to the
object you wish to view.
Pop a few teabags in your hot water tank and you can make a hot cuppa
anytime by just turning on the tap.
Avoid jet lag by simply taking an earlier flight, thus arriving fully
refreshed and on time.
Pass off as Welsh by putting coal dust behind your finger nails and talking
gibberish all the time, stopping occasionally to sing loudly, or set fire to
someone else's house.
A next door neighbour's car aerial, carefully folded, makes an ideal coat
hanger in an emergency.
Hijackers. Avoid a long stressful siege and the risk of arrest, imprisonment
or death by simply making sure you book a flight to your intended
destination in the first place.
Olympic athletes. Disguise the fact that you've taken anabolic steroids by
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<strong>How the hell did you happen to come across this?</strong><hr></blockquote>I was just curious yesterday and tried out the modifiers on some keys I hadn't tried before.
Dumb luck, I suppose.
Yes. <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
<strong>is that some cruel joke for us 'book users? Mine only goes to F12</strong><hr></blockquote>
F14 and F15 control the brightness... using these with option opens the monitors preference pane.
i need to do a clean install over the summer
if you go to terminal and run the ScreenSaverEngine with the -background flag, you can run Screen Effects as a desktop background! The abstract pictures look particularly good morphing on the desktop. The exact path is:
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/
Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/
MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background
You know how it has been asked forever how to mute startup chime, right?
Well, hold mute when turning on your comp.
Deter goldfish from having sex by throwing a small bucket of air over
any that you catch in the act.
Barto
Originally posted by hjordis71
This is also a little off topic, but why don't F7-F12 do anything on a Pismo? All I get is the alert when I hit these.
Press and hold F12 for Eject CD.
Originally posted by Jamie
Since we're all being so helpful:
Deter goldfish from having sex by throwing a small bucket of air over
any that you catch in the act.
Ah, you sound like a man who used to read Viz.
Some more top tips:
If a small child is choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a jug of boiling water down its throat and hey presto! the blockage is almost instantly removed.
Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away.
Keep the seat next to you on the train vacant by smiling and nodding at people as they walk up the aisle.
Save on booze by drinking cold tea instead of whisky. The following morning you can create the effects of a hangover by drinking a thimble full of washing up liquid and banging your head repeatedly on the wall.
Make bath times as much fun for kiddies as a visit to the seaside by pouring a bucket of sand, a bag of salt and a dog turd into the bath.
Recreate the fun of a visit to a public swimming pool in your own home by filling the bath with cold water, adding two bottles of bleach, then urinating into it, before jumping in.
Girls. Too old to go on an 18 to 30 holiday? Simply get pissed, lie in a sand pit in your garden and shag every bloke who looks at you over the fence.
An empty aluminium cigar tube filled with angry wasps makes an inexpensive vibrator.
Avoid arguments with the missus about lifting the loo seat by simply pissing in the sink.
Weedy fellas. Develop a right forearm like Arnold Schwarzeneggar by buying one of those Cindy Crawford workout videos.
Smokers. Save on matches and lighters, by simply lighting your next fag from the butt of your last one.
Vegetarians coming to dinner? Simply serve them a nice bit of steak or veal. Since they're always going on about how tofu, Quorn, meat substitute etc 'tastes exactly like the real thing', they won't know any difference.
Invited by vegetarians for dinner? Point out that since you'd no doubt be made aware of their special dietary requirements, tell them about yours, and ask for a nice steak.
Before attempting to remove stubborn stains from a garment always circle the stain in permanent pen so that when you remove the garment from the washing machine you can easily locate the area of the stain and check that it has gone.
Give comics that 'Pulp Fiction' feel by reading the last frames of cartoons first, then reading the rest in a random order.
High blood pressure sufferers. Simply cut yourself and bleed for a while, thus reducing the pressure in your veins.
Heavy smokers. Don't throw away those filters from the end of your cigarettes. Save them up and within a few years you'll have enough to insulate your loft.
Motorists. Enjoy the freedom of cycling by removing your windscreen, sticking half a melon skin on you head, then jumping red lights and driving the wrong way up one way streets.
A mouse trap, placed on top on of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep.
Create instant designer stubble by sucking a magnet and dipping your chin
into a bowl of iron filings.
X-Files fans. Create the effect of being abducted by aliens by drinking two
bottles of vodka. You'll invariably wake up in a strange place the following
morning, having had your memory mysteriously 'erased'.
A Hedgehog trained to scuttle up and down the table from guest to guest
makes an unusual mobile cheese and pineapple cube nibble dispenser at
cocktail parties.
Make cheap but effective baby rattles by gluing a lollipop stickto an empty
matchbox, then filling it with ten woodlice.
Save money on expensive personalised car number plates by simply changing your name to match your existing plate.
Don't waste money buying expensive binoculars. Simply stand closer to the
object you wish to view.
Pop a few teabags in your hot water tank and you can make a hot cuppa
anytime by just turning on the tap.
Avoid jet lag by simply taking an earlier flight, thus arriving fully
refreshed and on time.
Pass off as Welsh by putting coal dust behind your finger nails and talking
gibberish all the time, stopping occasionally to sing loudly, or set fire to
someone else's house.
A next door neighbour's car aerial, carefully folded, makes an ideal coat
hanger in an emergency.
Hijackers. Avoid a long stressful siege and the risk of arrest, imprisonment
or death by simply making sure you book a flight to your intended
destination in the first place.
Olympic athletes. Disguise the fact that you've taken anabolic steroids by
running a bit slower.
me... dead... on the floor..still rolling around.. ahaha...