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for some reason or another, I accidentally held down shift while I was minimizing a window and I saw one of the coolest but most pointless operations to date, on this computer or any for that matter. Try it out, its shift + minimize window.
 
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Note: It only works if you hold down shift and click on the minimise button with the cursor. It doesn't work when using the keyboard shortcut.

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Same goes for expose, zoom, dashboard as well.
 
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so you can be like yo check this out.. and minimize a window or activate expose, etc, and the windows user will be like wow thats awesome.. and then you can be like.. yo no in slow motion..
 
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onlyone-jc said:
Note: It only works if you hold down shift and click on the minimise button with the cursor. It doesn't work when using the keyboard shortcut.

onlyone-jc

it also works by double-clicking on the top of the window to minimise, which I always do as opposed to using the minimise button :)
 
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Try holding down the ctrl+shift key at the same time while minimizing the window... ;-)
 
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This also works in reverse....eg: click the minimized windows icon in the Dock whilst holding down the shift key at the same time.... :biohazard
 
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Yeah, Actually I am.
 
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whoriental said:
Do you think they actually have a point to that.

Steve Jobs used that when he introduced OS X. The point was to show off the cool effect in slow-mo. It is that simple.
 
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Open up Terminal and type:

killall Dock

Don't press enter yet, but keep Terminal and Safari open and CTRL+SHFT+Minimize Safari then quickly activate Terminal and hit enter to send the command.

Awesome.
 
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That's too cool, surfwax95! :D I knew about the slow-mo, but the "killall Dock" trick is funny... :)
 
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surfwax95 said:
Open up Terminal and type:

killall Dock

Don't press enter yet, but keep Terminal and Safari open and CTRL+SHFT+Minimize Safari then quickly activate Terminal and hit enter to send the command.

Awesome.

I'm posting using it.... I have to get some... er... em... "mood enhancers" and try this.
 
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Here's some hidden strings I've found in a FinalCut .rsrc I was digging around in:

If we can't ship this puppy by then, we might as well be herding yaks.
I'm glad it's getting weird again. I didn't understand it when it wasn't weird.
The C switch statement: Mmmmmm! Chock full of nooses!
That would be like crossing the streams or something.
Mmmm... Chicago style pizza!
I've got my blankie, I'm good to go.
A lot of this job is mental.
"Mostly clockwise, sometimes reverses..."
What's the sound of one luma clamping?
I just wanna be in the app!
Oh, rough and woeful music which we have! Cause it to sound!
The Yak is a delightful creature... rather like a visit with a bovine Confucious
Nobody might know anything.
I don't know, somehow it just works.
How do you tempt a Yak?
Chocolate covered espresso beans!
We're not the engineers you're looking for. Move along, move along.
The little cartoon man is messing with my head!
Speed kills, but sync maims.
It's compatible with it's legacy.
Twix bars: A brand-new bad habit!
Many Yaks were exploited during the creation of this product.
I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of nuclear weapons in this product.
I'm concerned because the cow sounded pretty threatening.
I am NOT a mad cow!
I don't care who's on the other end of the phone... Hang it up!
I have deniable plausibility.
Note to the galley: Romulan Cosmos no longer to be served on school nights!

Seems to be a series of inside jokes at Apple...
 

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