Completely pointless folder trick

[Perseus]

OK, I was a bit bored in class when I opened up a folder on my desktop. As the window was openinmg I then suddenly closed it (using command W) as soon as the window began to open, and the window flickered a lot.

How pointless is that? hehe

My monitor was an apple 17 inch flat panel, dont know if that's whats causing it.

Do you have any pointless mac tricks?

[Convert]

Shift and any expose key, just slows it down.

Shift and minimise slows it down. Who ever told me that, cheers

Pointless but pretty.

[Veljo]

Originally Posted by Perseus

OK, I was a bit bored in class when I opened up a folder on my desktop. As the window was openinmg I then suddenly closed it (using command W) as soon as the window began to open, and the window flickered a lot.

How pointless is that? hehe

My monitor was an apple 17 inch flat panel, dont know if that's whats causing it.

Do you have any pointless mac tricks?

Haha, I have NO idea what you just said

[Graeme43]

as soon as you double click the Mac HD (as an example), command + w close the window

a mini finder jumps across my screen when i do that

[JetwingX]

for me, half the time it zooms in and out again and the other half of the time it flickers

[symphonix]

Timing is everything with this one...

A cool thing is to start playing a movie in QuickTime, and open Terminal in the background. Then, from the Terminal (or even better, from a remote SSH session) you type the command to kill the process for Dock.app, but don't press Enter yet.

Now, minimise the QuickTime window while holding shift, then hit Enter in the Terminal before the QuickTime movie has ben fully "sucked-in". With a bit of careful timing, you can be left with a distorted "squashed up" movie window that's still playing!

[Sunnz]

Like this?

[symphonix]

Thats the one! I can't imagine how I stumbled on that one, though.