Fun Mac Command

[Orange Devil]

I just found out this fun command for Macs.

Okay Mac users, press

Mac Button+Option+Ctrl+8

Does anyone else know other cool commands like this? I remember my friend and I figured out a Microsoft command to turn the screen upside down, and we would do it to all of the school computers.

[preventerWIND]

Whats Fn?

The most useful ones I use are the expose ones, the F9-F12 keys.

[Majikn]

Function I would imagine.

[preventerWIND]

Oh.

Wheres the function key then? >.>

[Mikero]

It's to the left of Control, marked with "fn" on an iBook and probably every other Mac made in the 21st Century. And yes, it stands for "Function". It's the button allows all kinds of secondary (or third or fourth after Alt and Alt+Shift) functions of keys.

For instance, since the 12" iBook G4's keyboard is too small to have a proper numpad, holding function allows keys in the... Well I call it the "normal part"... of the keyboard to assume that numpad fuction. Function+M is 0, for example. Of course, you rarely need a numpad like that anyway, although I prefer them on real keyboards.

Note: For what OD is mentioning, pressing that sequence won't look like it does anything unless you hold it and scroll your mouse wheel or trackpad or whatever ya got. There's a similar one, that zooms the WHOLE screen, taskbar and all, and I believe you can leave it zoomed but I forgot what keys you use.

[Johncarllos]

I like the one that turns the screen black and white.
IF you do at the same time as you click the option in the universal access menu, it inverts all the colors on the screen.

[preventerWIND]

It's to the left of Control, marked with "fn" on an iBook and probably every other Mac made in the 21st Century. And yes, it stands for "Function". It's the button allows all kinds of secondary (or third or fourth after Alt and Alt+Shift) functions of keys.

Gotcha..

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WOAH!

[Orange Devil]

I made a mistake. I meant "Mac Button" option control 8. This will blow your mind.

[ChaosVortex]

Heheh. It wasn't on Macs, but there were new computers at High School, and we figured out how to flip the screens upside down.

We did it to all the computers. It was a fun one time prank.

Someone found a mirrored Google website and then flipped the screen. The teacher thought someone broke it entirely and began writing referrals.

[Chron]

Turns it upside down?
I feel a gaping hole in my computer knowledge has been exposed.

[ASR]

Ahaha, Elgoog! I remember that!

[ChaosVortex]

Yup.

This was the page.

She literally thought the whole computer was screwed up, even though after we flipped it up right, the desktop was fine.

EDIT: Yeah, I can't believe I forgot this and she didn't notice it. It even blatantly says at the bottom that the page is mirrored in normal text.

[Orange Devil]

I remember my friend and I figured out a Microsoft command to turn the screen upside down, and we would do it to all of the school computers.

[Chron]

Yes, right.
What is the command?

[Orange Devil]

I really really wish I could remember.

But seriously, did anyone try Mac Button+ alt+ ctrl + 8? It's ####### revolutionary.

[Chron]

... gah.
And I can't find a thing about it online.
Eh, I'll post it if I can, though.

[Majikn]

Okay so does OD's command invert the screen? Seeing as I don't have a Mac and no one else seems to want to talk about what it does. I mean I just looked up and that's what I saw and I'm coming here for confirmation on that.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=a0XsK9saxNs

[Orange Devil]

Bingo! It makes MMM all orange and yellow. Super fun.

[Mikero]

However, it makes your avatar blue and cyan so POO-2-U.

Okay so does OD's command invert the screen?

Yep. And if you thought Crazy Mr. Twister avatars were creepy before...

[Majikn]

Well damnit I can't creep out EVERYONE AT THE SAME TIME.

Jesus Christ, I'm trying.

[Mikero]

It's weird to see one normal picture in a completely inverted screen.

Anyway, the Mac button is actually called "Command" by the way.

[ASR]

Oh, god.

[Orange Devil]

Haha, that avatar is hilarious. Who is this "Mr. Twister" anyway?

[Mikero]

Crazy Mister Twister is a crazy guy!
He can make you laugh, groan, giggle or sigh!
What he's gonna do next, you really never know!
He's Crazy Mister Twister,
The star of the show!

Crazy Mister Twister is crazy you see!
One day he's a cowpoke, the next he's a bee!
He's Dracula, Vitaman, TownCrier too,
Here's Crazy Mister Twister
JUST. FOR. YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

(check the video share thread)

[Rama Olendris]

Roflroflrofl.

[Winged Warrior]

What is the command?

... My findings. (URL at the end of my comment; maybe you'll find more.)

Comment #32  (Posted by an unknown user)

Also on XP there is one I dicovered by accident, control+alt and either which arrow you want to flip your screen.

Comment #49  (Posted by an unknown user)
the screen flipping one is graphics card specific... therefor not a windows keyboard shortcut... although very fun

This does not work for me however

http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/windowsxp/articles/555/1/Keyboard-Shortcuts

[ASR]

Yeah, there are a bunch of computers that the screen flipping works on but it's never worked on a computer I've owned.

[Winged Warrior]

from all the googling i've done it he past five minutes, it seems to be a video card thing, and hence not really a command code.

Either way, Now Ive got something fun to do if I ever go to starbucks and some idiot leaves their lappy sitting.

[Mikero]

Other than that, it's really not cool enough to go searching on how to do. It's tired within seconds.

[Johncarllos]

Well, my computer comes with a remote.
This remote is infrared.
Every remote effects every other laptop of the same build, and I have one of those HPs that everyone seems to have.

I sit in the back of class and start programs on other's laptops with my remote and they get so friggin confused.
It's great.

Then I tell them after class that I was doing it my remote and they didn't even know their computer had one.

Pranks, yay.

[Mikero]

Haha nice.

Chaos should know that his avatar looks great inverted. Better, even.

[preventerWIND]

White, green, and black always make a good combo.

[Mikero]

You are correct, sir.

[preventerWIND]

I'd love to get my hands on preventers style track jacket with the dark blue replaced with black.

Infact, WINDUH will probably be getting a revamp pretty soon. Sporting those colours.

[Mikero]

Oh you mean basically like how that WATUH preventer wears? Yeah. Yeah.

[preventerWIND]

Yes and no. Its great as a casual look. But I want to make a design that still keeps an organization look to it. As well as some personality added to it.

I already know the goggles are going to be on 24/7 now.

[Mikero]

I just meant the colours. But I actually added subtle blue to the jacket in the end, when it was dark gray at one point.

[ChaosVortex]

Chaos should know that his avatar looks great inverted. Better, even.

Heh. Like this?

I might swap if I feel like it.

[ASR]

Reminds me of the XBOX 360.

[Mikero]

The regular one reminds me of PS2/3.
Or Gamecube (been a while since I typed that).

[ASR]

I forgot about those.

Gamecube. Huh.

[Speed Racer]

Back in the old days...like, System 7.0 old days, if you typed "secret about box" in whatever the Notepad equivalent was (I forget), and then dragged the text onto the desktop, various stuff would appear depending on which OS version you were running.

Some versions would open up a game of Breakout, other ones would show a picture of Mac headquarters. With the Mac headquarters one, you could control the flag with your mouse. Hitting certain keys before the screen changed to the picture would show a different flag. One had an iguana on it. If you shook the mouse quick enough, you could actually make the flag fall off the flagpole.

[Mikero]

That program was probably either TextEdit or Stickies. I'm thinking Stickies because I remember people doing interesting things with those.

[Speed Racer]

I'm thinking it was TextEdit...