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Friday Apple Fun
It's the weekend, and it's Friday the 13th (depending on when you read this), so have some fun making your Mac windows unusable and buying copyrighted (and copy-protected!) silence from iTunes Music Store. Read on for details.
Crazy Window Effects
ZackSchil writes "Open a terminal window and type on the prompt: killall Dock. Don't press return. Position a large window behind the terminal window, then shift-click on the large window's minimize button (so it goes slowly). While still holding shift, quickly hit the return key to execute the command and kill the Dock (it comes back right away). As soon as the dock's process is killed, the window will cease minimizing, leaving you with a working, draggable, active window halfway through the warping animation! While the system is at a loss how to translate mouse clicks to the window, you can still move bits that haven't changed location too much. After having some fun, just press Command-M to get the window all the way into the Dock and click to get it out again."
I had a similar experience with iChat the other day: I somehow caught a chat so the window was transparent. And more fun: open System Preferences, click on Network, and before it loads, move the window; when Network opens, the whole window moves back to where it was when you first clicked on it (this isn't new, but it annoys me).
Paying for (Copy-Protected) Silence wayneh writes "As the Apple Turns turned out a great story about several silent tracks available via the iTunes Music Store. They are all subject to the same digital copy protection as tracks with actual sound and at least one has a thirty second preview. Interestingly, a number of them are listed as explicit and have alternate clean versions available as well. Next time you need a few minutes of quiet time, consider purchasing it from Apple."
I hope the estate of John Cage is getting royalties for the silence... they would all seem to be infringing on the copyright for 4'33".
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Nah, I prefer to pirate my silence.
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...you insensitive clod!
-CowboyNick
Who wouldn't pay $.99 (or a lucky Pepsi cap) to listen to the grass grow? It's such a novel idea, I imagine someone's already working on a "one-click method for buying silence".
"See you, space cowboy." -Spike
How about making your computer malfunction on purpose?
Oh come on... you're telling me you've never taken an old beat up 486 era machine and started pulling parts while it was on just to see what happens?
Which format is best for my silent recordings?
Lots of people do this every day.
End of Line.
USA?
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Enjoy!
- C
How do you want it encoded? :)
So if a tree falls in the woods with no one around, does it have to pay a royalty fee to John Cage?
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% touch hush.c
% gcc -o hush hush.c
ld: Undefined symbols:
_main
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End of Line.
There's a whole deeper almost satanic meaning if you listen to 'em backwards.