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Author Message   Dave Moderator Username: Dave Post Number: 4671 Registered: 4-1998 Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 6:00 pm:        1) Genie effect: Hold down SHIFT while minimizing a window. 2) For a text adventure game, open Terminal and type in: emacs -batch -l dunnet   monster Citizen Username: Monster Post Number: 423 Registered: 7-2002 Posted on Monday, December 13, 2004 - 7:59 pm:        open several finder windows. go to dock and right click on an icon, don't select anything but instead utilize exposé and press F9, F10, and F11 several times each and in random order. then click on an open window or on the desktop... •••••••••••••••••••••• also try holding shift while maximizing a window from the dock ••••••••••••••••••••• hold option down while minimizing a window and all open windows of that app will minimize. Shift option will of course do it in slo-mo ••••••••••••••••••••• go to the Finder and choose "Go to Folder" from the "Go" menu and type in "/usr/share/emacs/21.2/etc" , without the quotes open the files "jokes, cookies, hello, and you might like the interview file ( an interview of Richard Stallman, the author of the EMACS text editor. ••••••••••••••••••••••• Open the Terminal (in your Applications -> Utilities folder). Copy and paste the following, then hit enter at the terminal prompt: cat /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history | grep "LOTR" •••••••••••••••••••••••• and this one I'll just give a link instead of pasting all of it here, how to change your poof, mine is now an exploding cloud of fire. there is an app that does this too, but I can't remember what it's called. http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020901074526865&query=terminal+ea ster+egg   monster Citizen Username: Monster Post Number: 425 Registered: 7-2002 Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 11:12 am:        I should also have mentioned one of my favorites to pull on unsuspecting users, hold down shift, option, control and the 8 key, all at once. Do the same to undo the effect.   Dave Moderator Username: Dave Post Number: 4700 Registered: 4-1998 Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 5:32 pm:        Shift+option+control+8 doesn't seem to do anything (on Jaguar or Panther).   monster Citizen Username: Monster Post Number: 431 Registered: 7-2002 Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 10:47 pm:        dang-it...I meant command+option+control+8...sorry....   Dave Moderator Username: Dave Post Number: 4708 Registered: 4-1998 Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 10:51 pm:        Ah. That's wild! I may keep it this way.   extuscan Citizen Username: Extuscan Post Number: 391 Registered: 6-2001 Posted on Wednesday, December 15, 2004 - 11:16 pm:        Right foot, blue circle... hey you're kinda cute!   ML Citizen Username: Ml1 Post Number: 2122 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Thursday, December 16, 2004 - 2:24 pm:        OK Dave. Just don't make MOL look like that.