Less violent SmackBook

[OfficialDjBigB]

How do you set this up?

[Naousaios26]

I have an idea about the sensors. See I was thinking that maybe it is not a hardware bug, but it was done purposely. If you cover either sensor there will be no change in the illumination. Only if you cover both. If for instance the sensors were working independently and you were covering one sensor with your hand to plug something to a port, then the illumination would change without it being needed. Therefore independently working sensors would create a bug.

[ealf]

Indeed, the system uses the maximum of the two light sensor readings in order to avoid that problem. That is a good idea, but not the problem I'm referring to.

To see the asymmetry, cover up both sensors, then uncover either the left or the right sensor. In one of the cases, the light goes back up; in the other, it stays down. I can't remember which it is (my Air only has one sensor; it uses time smoothing instead).

[Naousaios26]

Ohh yes, I get what you mean now. I have notice that myself too.

[massmurder009]

now let me get this straight... this allows you to switch between the open windows?

[weinerschnitzelboy]

it is like changing desktops not windows

example: you are running itunes, then you want to run garageband too, so you switch to a new desktop, but you still have itunes running

[SKoGoMoney]

"Karma"... How stupid can people be? Isn't that only applied to life anyway (not like it's real)? Lol 'I wouldn't want my old MacBook to smack me back in the next life' LMAO poor ignorant fools..

[xXYonnyXx]

I remember that comment! I read that when it was on the first page.

[dripmode]

some one please help me.. i'm sure its ez but maybe i'm doing something wrong ... i download the file version 1.1 and then i get a lil display about the left and right trigger. can u please tell me what would be the correct setting to make this app work. I see the left going from green to yellow but that is it , it dont switch or nothing .... please help .. thanx

[pudah657]

That looks really sensitive? what happens if you sneeze? Dont want someone in your room who happens to breath on it swapping the page to pron...

[macbeasty]

dude hes swinging his hand over the speaker which has a light sensor in it. I've never seen a sneeze trigger a light sensor. Unless your sneeze is a dense ball of smog that can block out light.

[marquesbrownlee]

yo, what up with two different hands? lol

[Boozerbadger]

Oh fun... Now insted of slapping my 2k MBP I can rub my hand over the sensor...

It's an improvement ^_^

[123q456w789e]

Was he using terminal when he did the less violent smackbook gesture? anyway, pleeze, post somewhere how to do it

[hpdaterrible]

I think he's using Emacs. or some variation of emacs. I can be wrong

[iRemainNameless]

how do you screen zoom like that? please tell me.

[wiggidywiggidywack]

ctrl+scroll in os10

[macintoshfan9999]

ambient light sensor doesnt really make it a smackbook

[AGS10nine]

Nice!! 

[Hiramthedude]

this is awesome, just slap the laptop and ur on the other display! now thats future

[photo1991]

can you make a tutorials bout how to get a ''less violent smacbook'' or at least the link from where you got it from pls!it look awsome and btw can you switch it off?

[Jonn004]

hmmm, The right hand looks differetn to the left :s

[ealf]

Yeah, they have different chirality.

[MalefixOmo]

that's not true, the new Mac OS X.5 Leopard features an integrated backup and restore function.

[conorwac]

Yes they do, they just call them Time Machine instead of System Restore.

[whizkid515]

Um, not exactly. Time Machine is a Backup program that comes with a seamless restore function. You need a backup drive or partition to backup to. System Restore, however, stores archives on your partition.

[fabianoarruda]

have you hever heard about Time machine?

dont say shit....

As if "Restore points" would really restore your deleted files back... keep dreaming... :P

[whizkid515]

TIME MACHINE ISN'T LIKE FRICKIN SYSTEM RESTORE!!!!! It's a backup and restore program, meaning it BACKS UP your files so you can seamlessly RESTORE them. You need a backup drive or partition to use it.

[mybadluck22]

To zoom: Command Option 8 to toggle the feature (it defaults to off) and then cmd opt + or cmd opt - to zoom in and out. cmd opt \ toggles antialiasing.

All of these are in the Universal Access pane of System Preferences.

[cripplecrowchris]

i LOVE that zooming in feature! thanks!!

[obob]

yeah hold crt and scroll.. but u have to enable it. and how do i do that.

[whizkid515]

You don't. Should work automatically. It does for me.

[breetsickle]

Sorry guys, but this only works on the MacBook Pro. It uses the light sensor for the keyboard backlight, which the regular MacBook doesn't have. Just use smackbook in that case. :)

[Kiddowesth]

He is using the ambient light sensor , isnt he?

[breetsickle]

yep

[weeeee162]

ya, but hes prolly a smart cookey to figure out how to sync the sensor w/the command for the virtal desktops

[GraffityRevolution]

"I believe in karma, and slapping your computer across the face is not good karma"

true true :D

[zwitterion24]

Ur using the ambient light sensor for that instead of a tap??

[ZachariasClub]

how does that work?

[nnatthhann]

wowzers

[UknowWhatToWatch]

what you can do that on any mac osx.

[HuDeanee]

how does it zoom in and out on ther screen?

[Phil12341]

U can do it by pressing ctrl and using 2 finger trackpad up or down for in/out respectively

[helimeef]

Most likely core animation...

[Snipereye64]

u can hold control and then go forward or backward with 2 fingers on the pad

[beanarts]

I've been doing it ever since I discovered it on my MacBook. doesn't require ay midifications

hold ctrl while scrolling with two fingers on the track pad to zoom in

[crtclrp]

hold ctrl and drag down/up with two fingers

[frapsrulez]

Hold CTRL and scroll your mouse wheel.

Don't think you can do it on a windows laptop.

Works on all Macs, well ... it works on my iMac and MacBook Pro.

[BananasWithThat]

Hold ctrl + scroll

[MalefixOmo]

it's something like command plus and minus (I don't know exactly I don't have a Mac)

[whizkid515]

It is. You have to enable it in Universal Access first.

[ktmock13]

ctrl+scroll the trackpad with two fingers

[xxbluessxx]

does it work on a normal macbook too?!

Send me a message...

[handidandi]

LOL so if you hit it too hard it will actually break??

[helimeef]

If you keep doing it it will damage the hard drive over time...

[GSCrepresentative]

Nice. does it work with normal macbooks?

[bilmure666]

noget

[macuser246]

for all of you who are wondering what the program is called, it is shadow book you put your hands over the als to flip the screen. so just search it.

[TheExpertDude]

im just wondering, wouldn't it get quite annoying if say, you were in word, typing, and suddenly, someone walks past the light making it flip to another desktop? i would have though something like with the trakerpad would be a good idea, where you cant change wile you type sort of thing.

[00kalm]

True experts don't ask questions about stuff they should know, create a new account called "TheUnintelligentOne"

[Phil12341]

Try VirtueDesktops

Or get Leopard

[TheExpertDude]

where can i get this program from?

[theinsane101]

A ABUSED MACBOOK IS NOT A HAPPY MACBOOK

[macuser246]

thanks for that

[v2ExPLoSiVo]

I dislike this one. The smack one is just so much more fun on old ones. On a new one though I suggest the Karma one.

[anakin1814]

I have a black MacBook and the zoom thing works on this too. It's a very cool feature (except for the 1st time I used and and couldn't get it back to the way things were!). I love my macbook!

[esetnod32]

what is a smackbook

[noxxten]

lol guys, only the macbook pro has the light senser. Macbooks do not have them...sadly.

[Dannyh120]

no ur wrong macbooks do have ambient light sensors

[chairas56]

where are they? i think the smacking is a little violet i want to get the karma one, how can i do it?

[lizzypowers]

never mind, i just read the comment about how i don't have an ambient light sensor. too bad.

[lizzypowers]

sorry that this might be obvious, but where is the light sensor on the black MacBook? i've been waving my hand like a crazy person in front of my computer and i can't see to find it.

oh, and the zoom is the coolest thing i've ever seen (besides being able to smack your computer and have it change the screen). it's amazing how many things my computer can do that i don't even know about, and i've had macs all my life.

[aidanbrumsickle]

You can zoom on a macbook simply by holding Ctrl and scrolling (ie, moving two fingers up and down on the trackpad.)

[LivingfortheFather]

ok.. as a macbook pro owner.... i would like to know all the cool things you have in this video.. including the zoom... light-sensor trick, and also installing smackbook.... other than that... BRILLIANT! haha.

[yotengomuchosanos]

okay its the light sensor! your putting your hand in the way of the light sensor to change the screen, i perfer hitting mine...

[Thirty6Boy]

Okay...so I've now tried to install this program / patch like 29382394587234 times and I've got the desktop manager working fine and everytime I go into terminal and do the code deal...it gives me the message that I'm supposed to get that everything is okay...but when I smack it I don't get anything. I'm on a MacBook what's up???

[soci]

Another use of a motion sensor to watch panoramas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v­=jGy0NiqpPeI

[mikehoe]

this command zoom is the best thing iv learned all day.

[backfold]

me too!

[cavalier777]

ctrl-scroll is pretty nice as well

[Raiderfan18J]

can some 1 please tell me how to do this i have a black macbook 2ghz and 512 ram can some 1 please tell me I have that virtue desktops file i know how to use it and can some 1 please tell me that zoom trick thanks j dizzle

[antichav1]

you can't cos u don't have an ambient light sensor on the macbook, but the macbook pro does.

[OtheSizzle]

lol thats is soo much better than smacking it. dats wassup

[TeddyLeper]

OK, the real cool thing about this video is exposing that little-known zoom trick. Thanks!

[xav3x]

THE ANSWER TO THE ZOOM QUESTION: Command.Option.8 (to activate) Then Command.Option +/- to Zoom In/Out.

And it's been available since Panther. 10.3

It's an OSX thing.

[IMpossibleVideo]

no, its an OSX "thang"

[shroomvalley]

Oh man, I'm totally famous now. haha.

[Exemptpersonal]

Does that zoom thing, ALT+Command +/- only work on the new macbook pro? i couldnt get it to work on my powerbook, although I do have smackbook running just fine :)

[smono927]

Try Cmd-Opt-8 to enable zoom, then use Cmd-Opt-"+" and Cmd-Opt-"-" to zoom in and out.

[cybergoober]

freshyill: The ALS (Ambient Light Sensor) also changes the screen's brightness, not just the backlit keyboard's.

[hpanahi]

The application is now up at:

http://blog.medallia.com/2006/­06/shadowbook.html

[freshyill]

@toiletpaper: no, the light sensor is what changes the brightness of the internally-lit keys, and the macbook's keyboard doesn't have that.

[tolietpaper]

nice. does macbook have a light censor?

[unimatrixZxero]

Yeah, it does. Everytime someone turn os the light its bleeped out.

[tonydraws]

thats hot

[Rianousuke]

Nice proof of concept, but what happens when you're in an area with a lot of light fluctuations? I'd personally rather tap the site of my screen then have my VMs switching every time somebody walked past me outside. Still cool though.

[xavier853]

noob use the universal access

[nunofgs]

zoom thing: alt-command-+

[lholste]

Does anybody know the shortcut for the zoom-thing in the beginning? Love this :)

thx

[06metzp]

"this isn't the desktop you're looking for..."

[desirecampbell]

Looks like Jedi mind tricks to me :D

[lpkramit]

no he isnt, lol, thats cool, wish i had bought a macbook pro now and not a vanilla macbook

[xamox]

comand based timed XGL?



[kevin8441]

he is using shortcuts

[cybergoober]

Is that using the ambient light sensor? Cool.