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Friday Apple Fun

Posted by pudge on from the well-not-too-much-fun dept.

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."

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  1. Silence by El · · Score: 5, Funny

    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".

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  2. The Sounds of Piracy by elmegil · · Score: 5, Funny
    Next time you need a few minutes of quiet time, consider purchasing it from Apple.

    Nah, I prefer to pirate my silence.

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  3. I don't have a sound card! by CowboyNick · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...you insensitive clod!

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    1. Re:I don't have a sound card! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I got the tracks to play through the system speaker on a PC.

    2. Re:I don't have a sound card! by NanoGator · · Score: 5, Funny

      "But then how would you know they were silent? "

      Because there's an animated icon of a tree falling in the woods.

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      "Derp de derp."
    3. Re:I don't have a sound card! by Endive4Ever · · Score: 5, Funny

      I can't get my sound card to work. I run Linux.

      (ducks)

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  4. Re:Silence is golden (or green) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    There have been many, many times at the office that I would've paid good money for a minute of silence.

  5. So whats better? AAC, WMA, MP3 or OGG? by naelurec · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which format is best for my silent recordings?

  6. USA maybe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    And besides--what kind of a world would we be in if silence becomes patented?

    USA?