Easter Eggs For Your Mac Experience

[Black Apple]

I hope this isn't extremely redundant but I thought I'd share some things I've discovered by using my Mac. Hopefully some of you can add to the list as well.

 

Anyhow, I thought that since I've got a few minutes I'd post a few tips and tricks

that I've learned along the way.

 

 

Let's start with a few neat keyboard tricks:

 

 

Ctrl + Shift + 3 - Take a screen shot of your display.

 

 

Ctrl + Shift + 4 - Take a screen shot of a section of your display - (Gives

a plus sign for you to drag a over a portion of your screen)

 

 

Ctrl + Option + Command + 8 - Inverts the colors of your screen. (Press again

to go back)

 

 

Terminal Tricks:

 

 

Open a Terminal --> Type emacs --> hit esc --> x --> type

doctor

 

 

Open a Terminal --> Type emacs --> hit esc --> x --> type

tetris

 

 

Open a Terminal --> Type emacs --> hit esc --> x --> type

tetris

 

 

GUI Tricks:

 

 

Select text in your browser and then drag and drop it onto your desktop, it

will create a plain text file.

 

 

Minimize your window in slow motion by holding the shift key while you click

the minimize button

 

 

Open up Safari and find a nice long web page. Load up Terminal and type

“Killall Dock” without quotes but do not hit enter yet. Make sure your Safari

window is in the background and Terminal is your active window. Hold down the

shift key and click the minimize button on your Safari window. About halfway

through, hit enter to execute your Terminal command. Your Safari window will be

stuck in a minimize sequence but still usable. You can scroll, load a new web

page, or open a new tab.

 

 

Here's a video of how some of these are done:

 

[shiroitaka]

lol thanks being a n00b to macs i did not know these

[Black Apple]

No Problem...

 

Here's something else I found interesting (or nauseating) depending how you look at it...

 

 

 

Try this:

 

Open up a terminal and paste the following into it and then press enter:

 

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine

 

-background &

 

I think you need to have your screensaver previously setup before this will work though.

 

Anyhow... something else to try on a Mac!