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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: rickl on April 23, 2011, 11:36:47 AM

Title: Stupid Mac Tricks
Post by: rickl on April 23, 2011, 11:36:47 AM

Press control+option+apple+8.

My cat discovered this.  I had to go to the Apple website and search the user forums to figure out what the hell happened and change it back.

I have no idea why this is an option.

Title: Re: Stupid Mac Tricks
Post by: IronDioPriest on April 23, 2011, 11:42:30 AM

What happens? I'm not gonna try it until you tell what happens, and give the remedy!

Title: Re: Stupid Mac Tricks
Post by: rickl on April 23, 2011, 11:45:45 AM

I tried taking before and after screenshots, but the effect doesn't show up in the screenshot for some reason.

The cure is to push the same keys again.

Title: Re: Stupid Mac Tricks
Post by: Damn_Lucky on April 23, 2011, 11:47:02 AM

Quote from: IronDioPriest on April 23, 2011, 11:42:30 AM

What happens? I'm not gonna try it until you tell what happens, and give the remedy!

Aww! come-on where's your sense of adventure! ::hysterical::

Title: Re: Stupid Mac Tricks
Post by: rickl on April 23, 2011, 11:51:13 AM

There were three or four threads about this in the Apple user forums, and in every case they started with "My cat was lying on my keyboard..." or "My two-year-old was playing with the keyboard..."

Title: Re: Stupid Mac Tricks
Post by: IronDioPriest on April 23, 2011, 11:54:00 AM

Hey, I kinda like that look.

Title: Re: Stupid Mac Tricks
Post by: rickl on April 23, 2011, 12:10:07 PM

I tried to see if I could do it on a PC at work, but I couldn't figure it out.  This may be a "feature" that is only available on Macs.  Again, I have no idea why.

Title: Re: Stupid Mac Tricks
Post by: radioman on April 23, 2011, 01:23:14 PM

I think that cats have a secret code and communicating with eachv other.

Title: Re: Stupid Mac Tricks
Post by: Pandora on April 23, 2011, 01:47:25 PM

Either that or the word got out that almost every 'puter gots a mouse!

"Maybe it comes out if I push THIS .... ".  "Mewp, maybe this ....".