[Nobody]

Hey,
I am wondering if anybody has or knows a source for an 800x600 (or larger) graphic of an OS X screen.

I want to play a trick and put it on somebody's (work) computer and tell them we got him a Mac while he was gone! He's a "Microsoft-boy" who won't even mention buying Apples in the Supermarket!

I'm just looking for the basic OS X screen with the Dock of some common programs and no windows already open. Most of the ones I've found have some window open, demonstrating what their product looks like on OS X.

Any help would be appreciative! He's leaving next week which gives me a little time to get this done....

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Thanks!

[shawl80100]

You may want to try "Grab" which is in the OS-X Utilities folder.
It will take a picture of the Mac's desktop as it is at that moment,
but saving it out as a tiff file is a problem if the PC you want to open it on
doesn't have apps that will open a tiff. You can try opening it in Photoshop and
converting it. The best I could do was a .gif or .jpg that would open up in
Explorer. The PC's at my work are very basic, so I think a lot depends on what
your friend's PC is capable of.
I find it hard to imagine how anyone (as long as they've worked a lot on BOTH)
can like Windows over Mac.
Best of Luck!! It's a great joke! images/icons/smile.gif

[Nobody]

http://homepage.mac....tures/Plain.jpg

I took that awhile ago to do something similar..

[Nobody]

blank>http://homepage.mac....icture%20_1.jpg

Here's another

[Nobody]

I wouldnt use a jpeg - the compression kills it - too washed out.
You'd want to save the TIFF as a 24-bit BMP file (thats windows native picture format) - as its lossless.
Also, wouldn't you think that it would be wise to take the time out of the menubar? It would be a bit of a giveaway if he walks in in the morning and that screen says "4.34 PM"

[Nobody]

Better yet:
http://www.yaromat.com/macos8

It is OS 8 but it is still cewl! Works best on a PC running IE (ofcourse).

T

[Nobody]

Just to have some fun I am setting up his Win98 computer to
"View my Active Desktop as a Web Page"
and
"Hide icon when the desktop is viewed as a Web Page"
and I am developing the web page that has the OSX graphic taking up the whole screen and am setting up hotspots to links based on the icons in the Dock.
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I know it won't last under scrutiny, but I just want to hear the What the?...,.

[Nobody]

Lol

I wanna see the finished product!

[Nobody]

I don't know if it's too late but here's another one.
http://homepage.mac....ver/desktop.jpg

I removed the menu clock and edited the dock to look like no applications but the Finder are running (no arrow under the Grab icon)

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[Henry_Vlll]

You are all a bunch of conniving sadists! images/icons/blush.gif

But, as a charter member of the MacroSquash Baiting Society or MS is BS, I love it! images/icons/tongue.gif

[lissaleon]

We do this sort of stuff to each other at work all the time, to the point that I'm afraid to come back from a personal day...we are all on Macs so we do lots of Mac tricks to each other, but I love the idea of doing this to a PC co-worker, what an awesome concept!!

We should open a forum that just talks about tricks you can play on each other either Mac to Mac or Mac to PC, etc.

Some of my best tricks to others as well as ones played on me are: (yes, I admit, it's a bit sadistic!)

-removing the ball from the mouse
-the classic "screen shot" of the desktop so when you click on your desktop icons, nothing happens
-changing the screen font from Geneva to something like dingbats or chinese characters and making the default size 24pts. (this is a really good one bc u have 2 really know your way around the contol panels and OS to change it back since it's no longer in "English"
-taking the desktop icons off the screen and putting them inside a folder with a desktop icon that normally would launch a file, like a PDF form
-putting the "Hampster Dance" audio file in the startup items (in the extensions on OS9) so that when the computer starts up it plays the song (really loud--system volume turned all the way up!!)
Sacres the beejesus out of you!!

oh, how do we torment thee, let me count the ways!!

So, anyway, I got a vaction coming up...any new ideas for my next retalliation???

[mr.steevo]

Hey Trip,
I used the Yaromat link on a friends PC and it perplexed him to no end. All he could say is "How did Mac get on my computer?!". He ended up rebooting his system. Very funny.

[Nobody]

I once created a program with macromedia director that would launch on startup and whenever the person clicked on any icon an alert message said something to the effect that "you have just ruined your system folder the hard drive will be erased in 15 seconds", then the computer would go to the crashed symbol. This was years ago and was a lot cooler when I did it than now but still thats the best one I've ever done.

Soundguy

[Nobody]

I've done 2 things to a former employee (not at the same time);

First, our old computers didn't come with sound-cards so we had to order them seperately and have them installed after-the-fact (this was ~97-98).
They came in while she was away on vacation so I did what any blue-blooded fellow-employee would...
I looked online for "the most annoying sound I could find" and downloaded it onto her computer. Then I set up that sound to play on start-up, cranked up the speakers and shut her system down. She normally came in very early in the morning so unfortunately could not find out her expression whne the "Mad Cow" played at full blast about 5 or 6am when she didn't know the soundcard was installed! images/icons/shocked.gif

Then on Halloween she left her computer just long enough for me to turn on her PCAnywhere on Host mode. Since we were using a Dos-based accounting program at that time I switched it back so the open files were hidden, and waited for her to come back.
So I remote-controlled her curser to go all over the place and listen to her call me over in a semi-paniced voice! Naturally the cursor stopped moving by the time I got to her cubicle!
You cannot imagine how difficult it was to keep a straight face! images/icons/wink.gif
So I returned to my desk.. and minutes later it started acting up again! I did this a couple of time until I thought she was getting suspicious. So then I took a ruler and laid it on one of the arrow keys with the stapler on top! When she called me over I came into the cubicle and it was still happening (thus I could not be doing it)!
Unfortunately once she switched out of the Dos program she saw immediately PCAnywhere was running!
I'm just glad I was on the phone with somebody who would have called the police if she started killing me! images/icons/shocked.gif So all I got was a solid punch in the arm (and she's a big girl!)

Unfortunately my usual "targets" have all left the company so I've been searching for new ones since...