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One-upped - A simple prank to pull using the Exposé blob
Authored by: Thom on Dec 03, '04 03:42:18PM

I used to help teach a computer summer camp for jr high / high school kids at my old job (at a University). We taught them photoshop, illustrator, Director, etc.

At one point, I helped them make a Director full-screen projector which hid the cursor... had a fake cursor, stuck in the middle of the screen...

...and moving the (invisible) cursor brought the entire background image (of the desktop) with it. :)

It was priceless. Imagine someone sitting down at their workstation after lunch, moving the cursor, and everything BUT the cursor moves...



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One-upped - A simple prank to pull using the Exposé blob
Authored by: markwlewis on Dec 03, '04 08:46:43PM

My favorite under OS9 was this: Take a copy of the alert sound out of the system folder. The QUACK worked well. Change the icon of the sound file to the icon of the hard drive. Rename the sound the name of the hard drive with a couple of spaces before and after it so it is differently named. Then, the trick: If you hold down CMD on OS9 and drag the icon near the hard drive icon. It will "snap" to the HD's position, not go into it. It will wind up ON TOP of the HD icon! So when the person double clicks the HD, all they get is "Quack!" The success of the prank is measured in the number of restarts the victim does!

Under 10 sound files no longer play on a double click.....darn.



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One-upped - A simple prank to pull using the Exposé blob
Authored by: GlowingApple on Dec 04, '04 02:06:40PM

Well, I'm not sure how to drag an icon on top of another without moving the icon into the other, but for playing sounds, use a program called PlaySound (http://microcosmsoftware.com/playsound/). It will play almost any sound on open. Just set your sounds to open with this program and you're set.

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