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- blueigloo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+47Thats pretty slick.. nothing like giving the macbook a good 'ol slap every now and then
- blauvs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+39you act like Alt-Tab is a purely Windows thing... what about command tab? Fanboy-dropper. Can people on here grow up and come up with a new derogatory term?
- spyker, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34thats a sweet hack quick way too hide "whatever" u are doing :)
- WalterDirt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28I need this program! After spending over $2500 on my macbook this might very well justify the cost.
//i'm totally being serious, the holy sh*t factor is just too great to pass up - mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Problem is, your hands probably won't be free
- marix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Reminds me of the oldey time type writers where you have to slice it back after each line.
- analgesia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24maybe someone can create a program that will make your mac shut down when you wave to the iSight camera.
Or shut down a program when you give it the middle finger. - vidluther, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22Umm.. he's switching virtual desktops. This hack would work on any laptop with motion sensor technology..I believe the thinkpads have them as well. So, it's not an apple specific thing.
And it's not the same as alt-tab in windows. - MadFunk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18This is actually a good example of functionality that could be very useful on a laptop, or any computer. It's a simple (and seemingly intuitive) action to tap the side of my monitor to send my active windows aside.
The only question, though: does this constant, repetitive motion wear our the joints in the screen's hinge, or cause any other wear to the machine? And is the sensor specific enough to distinguish between a screen tap and any other movement, say, picking up the laptop? - kenz0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Yeah it would be neat if someone did something in a word processor where thats what you have to do instead of using the return key.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12He's barely tapping it, it's not ike your causing damage to your $499 monitor. It's interesting, granted, diggworthy even. But it might not work as well going down the road, it's certainly not saving you any time.
- Iam8up, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11You've never used anything but Windows. Get the Ubuntu Live CD, boot it up, and look in the lower right corner. Multiple desktops make using many windows AMAZINGLY more convenient.
- shucklak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11You're right, Alt + Tab is not the same on a Mac as it is in Windows.
However I like it better. With the combination of Alt+Tab and Alt+` it is much nicer and less cluttered to circulate through windows.
As for the Mac bashing, shut the hell up. This is clearly some feature that just happened to be discovered on a mac laptop. If it were on your Inspiron, you would have been the first person to Digg this article and you would be telling all of your friends.
If you don't like Macs well then that is your problem, don't bitch about it to the world. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10mikeazorin... what the hell do you use the other one for?
Don't get fancy. - RossH, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Where can I get this?
- cmw72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I wanna see somebody use this to write a killer pinball app.
- chiller2002, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10@reboare
Seeing as this is a comment thread, I imagine this would be the appropriate place to put relevant thoughts, comments and opinions on the topic at hand. If you don't like his comment, then mod it down, just like I did yours. - jcz1978, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11I smack my MS mouse all the time...
- Firemeboy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Riding on the train or bus, you'd have a devil of a time trying to keep your windows on the screen.
And what happens if you sneeze? - alecks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Actually,i'ts using an accelerometer.
- dusingaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6hey if everyone blocks him it is like he doesn't exsist.
- NJank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6neat, yes. useful, no.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Anyone else notice that he is on digg during that video?
- notfred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's crap, I'm using it now. It merely keeps track of which window is minimized in which "virtual desktop", and does min/restore as appropriate when switching between windows - the more windows you have open, the longer it takes to switch.
- HeapAlloc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I originally learned all about the precision of gyroscopes in 6th grade.
- harpastum, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Anyone trying to use hifiDesign's links: the right parentheses are not supposed to be in the url, but for some reason the digg comment viewer decides to parse it that way. Here they are without the parens, so they work:
http://virtuedesktops.info/
http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/ - joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"They don't even have a good office suite (so they worked it out with MicroSoft to help port theirs over)."
Pages and Keynote are arguably much more elegant that Word and Powerpoint. Access? That's not that great to begin with. Spreadsheet? Admittedly, Excel is pretty damn good.
FYI, MS has been making Mac software from day one. Apple didn't 'work it out' with MS. MS is simply targetting a profitable market. - PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Way possible, but problems would include false activation and excessive processor usage.
- gusx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4In the video, there is a link to http://blog.medallia.com/smack
I guess the software could actually be found on that address but it requires authentification.
Someone needs to bruteforce it. :) - revgriddler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I don't believe most HDTVs have HDDs... and so probably don't have a SMS. Man, you are a hater. Did somebody drop your laptop and your HD died?
- sxtxixtxcxh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4the blog is finally up at: http://blog.medallia.com/2006/05/smacbook_pro.html
- mikeazorin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You can already turn the voice recognition on the mac on, and just teach it "f** you" means quit.
- benliong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Probably because there's less incentive to put this harddrive-saving feature into a desktop that doesn't move much.
But can you imagine smacking your imac every now and then? do that in the apple store and see what the employees feel about it. ;) - larst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, i saw that. Hope the user steps forward and gives us a link to this cool hack.
- jonshipman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's most likely IBM sudden motion detection - or Seagate. I bought a Seagate a year ago for my Titanium Powerbook and then I got Sudden Motion Detection.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I wanna buy a mac now...
- MuffinMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You must beeleeve!
- rgtech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3diggaccount2: I hope I don't have to see any more spam from you.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Anyone know what that program he was using is? The one where he moves the window around and the blue stuff flies about (looks like a physics simulation...)
- nuXan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes, pinball. Excellent idea!
- Lounger540, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It would take more effort to fake this video then to write an app that interfaces w/ the openly available motion sensor interface. Haven't you seen the pinball game and MacSaber apps that use the motion sensor?? Idiots.
- althe3rduww, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Its using a gyroscope, if you are not familiar with that it is a device that can detect motion and the direction of motion. Originally a physical spinning wheel in its early invention, the gyroscope of today uses a non mechanical piezo sensor to accomplish the same thing. The piezo sensor is much more precise and has no moving parts. If you want to understand how the motion detection works first hand I suggest taking a bicycle wheel and and place pegs on either side of the hub, spin it fast and while holding the hub try to move it around, notice the resistance?
I originally learned all about the precision of gyroscopes when learning to fly helicopters. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It didn't look like he was smacking the side with very much force at all. I personally wouldn't be worried about wearing anything out quicker than it would normally. I wonder if the top has sensors too. You could assign three different actions to the three sides that have sensors.
- NiLeS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Windows can have virtual desktops with the PowerToy:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/msvdm.html or
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx - NiLeS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2read the video comments..they say how it's done. Pretty easy too!
- NiLeS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2read the video comments...
- dbr_onix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Remove the ) at the end when you click.. One link that is broken is the one on the video (the blog.medallia thingy, goes to an "Internal Use Only" login thing...), anyone know the proper site for this thing?
Is it just me, or could this be very very annoying if friends found out you had it running, and started randomly hitting the side of your laptop while you were using it...? Might want to disable it on a plane, or if the laptop is sitting on your knees too...
- Ben - Lounger540, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It looks like a very soft tap. Those motion sensors are actually pretty sensative. My dads thinkpad would pick up the slightest movement.
- NiLeS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2they have that too
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