Next you’ll see a dialog box that’s labeled Choose a Script to Attach. From the contextual menu, choose Services > Folder Actions Setup. When you’re finished composing your masterpiece of evil, close that window, go back to the folder, and right-click on it. In the Info window that appears, type your message into the “Spotlight Comments” field. To get started, pick out the folder that you think would be scariest for your enemy-I mean, friend-to think something’s happened to. Using Folder Actions, your target Mac can display any message you specify when a particular folder is opened. Within System Preferences > Keyboard, look for the “Modifier Keys” button under the “Keyboard” tab.Ĭlicking on that will let you switch up the keys shown below, or you can even assign them all to do nothing. Incidentally, the setting for this is in System Preferences > Universal Access under the “Seeing” tab, and if you’re looking for something a little less dramatic to fool a savvier user, click the “Use grayscale” box there instead.Īs this setting isn’t particularly well known, I’m willing to bet that you could frustrate the heck out of most folks with it. It looks really strange if you’re unfamiliar with what it’s doing. To do this, just hit the keyboard shortcut Control-Option-Command-8, and the computer in question will invert all of the displayed colors. This first prank isn’t one you’ll play on a longtime Mac user, as it’s been around for a while. I accept no responsibility for any homicides or broken marriages that actually performing these steps may cause. Since there are two Apple Consultants living in my house, those pranks have often taken the form of “what in the heck did you do to my Mac?!!!” In honor of this great holiday, I’m going to show you my favorites of the Mac tricks you can play on your loved (and not so loved) ones.īe aware that you’ll need to have physical access to your target’s computer to prank him, and in some cases, you may need his password, too. The one day of the year when idiots like me can play pranks with a minimum of backlash.
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