In this short Screencast I show a hidden Easter Egg in both Tiger and Leopard that I call “The Blob.” If you want to subscribe to the Typical Mac User Blip.tv Video feed you can do so here.
WARNING: This tip uses “Terminal commands” to execute the Easter Egg. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I cannot be responsible anyone doing this and having any issues.
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December 1st, 2007 at 5:42 am
Neat tip, Victor.
December 1st, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I thought that easter eggs were things that you could not do/see in normal mode but this just gives you options which you can do anyway! Am I missing something here!
Anyway still a nice find Victor you really are a cyber geek!
December 1st, 2007 at 4:54 pm
Right you can’t see or do this in normal mode. Unless you dig deep you can’t see it, unless you know its’ there. So I think it’s an Easter Egg but I’m wrong a lot, so who knows
Like you said , I thought it was fun and wanted to share it. That’s what I do.
Victor
December 28th, 2007 at 9:09 am
can you give me the conmands it won’t work for me!
December 28th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Here you go
To turn on do this
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-floater -bool YES
killall Dock
To turn off do this
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-floater -bool NO
killall Dock
December 30th, 2007 at 8:43 pm
just curious, what do you use to show the command sequence on screen or is that some accessibility feature i haven’t found?
December 30th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
I use Mousepose 2 http://www.boinx.com/mousepose/