[HN Gopher] Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
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Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
Author : Bluestein
Score : 112 points
Date : 2024-06-25 20:52 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| hot_gril wrote:
| He mentions the old Dashboard ball widget. There was a glitch you
| could use to put widgets onto your desktop instead, so naturally
| every school Mac had 20 bouncy balls on it.
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| I don't think it was a glitch, it was a developer mode. You can
| run in Terminal:
|
| > defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
|
| Maybe there was _also_ a glitch to do it without the Terminal
| command; if there was I don 't know about it.
| hot_gril wrote:
| I remember there being dev mode and also a glitch, but I
| could be wrong and don't have a Tiger machine to test with
| now.
| Liquix wrote:
| classic. we had the versions of OS X with keyboard shortcuts
| for global zoom and color invert. took a couple months for the
| faculty to learn about these shortcuts the hard way..
| hot_gril wrote:
| Invert colors, hold shift to slow down expose animations,
| spam F11 was what kids did when bored in computer lab
| hughesjj wrote:
| We'd print out the same string sans newlines and watch the
| console word wraparound make some shapes. All started from
| a bug someone wrote that we thought was funny.
| overshard wrote:
| Fun fidget utility! I find myself just mindlessly clicking stuff
| sometimes while I think and this gives me a little bit more to
| do.
| swayvil wrote:
| I've always wanted a ball.
| gjm11 wrote:
| "And, oh! Father Christmas, if you love me at all, Bring me a
| big, red, india-rubber ball!"
|
| -- A. A. Milne, _King John's Christmas_
| ashton314 wrote:
| I love the bouncy sounds! Thank you for adding a little whimsy to
| my day.
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| Fwiw, here is the old Dashboard widget this is based on, for
| anyone else on an OS old enough to run it. It was a little
| annoying to dig out of the internet archive.
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20110301011442/http://gogoredbal...
| rkagerer wrote:
| I miss websites that actually gave you useful information on
| the landing page.
| rubymamis wrote:
| Why does it only run on macOS 13+?
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| I remember having these kinds of desktop toys in Windows, way
| back when, probably 95 or 98? Just a little joyful thing you
| could play with. This rules.
| Bluestein wrote:
| I was fond (I know, I know ...) of those dancing er ... dancers
| you could have cavorting around your taskbar and Star Menu. The
| days ...
|
| PS. They would use up an obscene amount of memory and wholesale
| freeze your entire computer every 20 minutes. Didn't matter :)
| scottyah wrote:
| I loved the one that would take a screenshot of your current
| desktop and you could smash it with a hammer and set it on
| fire. Little me had some anger issues
| dylan604 wrote:
| How could you not for being forced to use Windows?
| pedrogpimenta wrote:
| I like ball. Almost makes me regret moving to Linux a year ago
| docstryder wrote:
| Such a delightful thing
| soared wrote:
| This reminds me of rainmeter, but for fun instead.
| crooked-v wrote:
| I'm suddenly reminded of the Petz series. I'm surprised that's
| never come back in some form.
| stevenpetryk wrote:
| There is something kind of similar as a VS Code extension:
|
| https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tonybalo...
| proee wrote:
| Does anyone know of any similar ideas for an interactive
| animals/pets for your desktop?
|
| This is the best thing I could find so far to put on an extra
| monitor. Note you can click to interact with the penguins and
| also feed them.
|
| https://www.petpenguins.com/
| bazzargh wrote:
| Neko has been around for decades now (but was cuter I think
| back when the desktop resolution matched the cat)
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
| amelius wrote:
| > Does anyone know of any similar ideas for an interactive
| animals/pets for your desktop?
|
| Maybe try Bonzi Buddy?
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
| amethyst wrote:
| I still miss my desktop sheep every once in a while:
| https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet?tab=readme-ov-fil...
|
| Edit: the best part was running it a couple dozen times to get an
| entire flock walking, falling, and rolling all over your desktop,
| and watching everything grind to halt under CPU strain!
| riccardomc wrote:
| I guess the duty of mentioning Neko befell on me this time:
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
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