Oh my. The internet is a strange place. Digging up things weeks after they were made in an hour, sent jokingly to a few close friends, and mostly forgotten, and throwing them all over Twitter and the Apple blagoblag.
Is it just me or is Shake to Undo one of the worst features of iOS on the iPad? You are happily typing an email on the train and then you screw up and delete a bunch of text. To undo it, you have to pick the iPad up off your lap or off the table and shake it pretty damn hard.<p>You end up looking like an absolute maniac.
Funny joke and all, but it got me thinking.
Why not some sort of gesture for undo like a multi finger scribble (similar to 'rubbing something out' with an eraser)?<p>Then I tried a bit harder & thought why not just use cmd-Z ;)
Does anyone know if this will work with my 27" iMac? ;-)<p>Joking aside, the shake-to-undo gesture in iOS is one of the worst things about the platform. It's either not sensitive enough or too sensitive, and either way makes you look a bit odd
I just hope this doesn't inspire people to really shake the macbooks so hard to cause a disk problem or any other hardware issue.<p>I advise you add a disclaimer for this? ;)
I am guessing this is a nice little joke, BUT...<p>If the sensitivity was just right, and it only measured a shake like smacking the monitor on the side, it might actually make a nice UX.<p>Think of typing away at this message and then deciding, "never-mind", and reaching up with your right hand and smacking the screen on the edge. Could be a very natural feeling undo.
While the idea is interesting, this is probably not something I would use on a laptop. Picking up and shaking a laptop while it's open and running goes against all my "protect fragile and expensive equipment" instincts. Tablets and phones are normally held in one's hands anyway, and weigh much less and are better balanced.
While a pretty funny article, I disagree with the underlying message that Apple is making Lion too similar to iOS in ways that decrease its functionality.<p>For me, launchpad has been perfect for organizing my apps because just clicking the applications folder presents me with too many unrelated options. For example, my second launchpad window is only apps I've downloaded, so it's obvious to me how I would launch Starcraft or Braid as opposed to TextEdit.
Didn't the old iMacs have a "shake to shutdown" feature? Or was that just some weird configuration I had at the place I worked?<p>I can't recall the number of times I adjusted the position of the monitor only to find the computer shutting down...
Nice one. :-) Very soon, I'll be playing games that needs me to shake my Mac violently, twist, turn and sometimes requiring me to flap the screen repeatedly to ward off the lazer guns of attacking Stormtroopers.
The twisting motion illustrated is more dangerous to hard drives than a simple up and down or side to side shake; the heads are being pushed into the gyroscopic platters. [citation needed]
<i>"Mission Control removes the confusing grid that previously plagued Spaces. Where a user with four spaces could previously end up on any of the other three with a single keystroke, he or she is now presented with a much less confusing choice between one or two."</i><p>I <i>liked</i> the ability to traverse a 2x2 grid of Spaces with a single keyboard stroke. Now, if I set up four screens with the new Mission Control in Lion, I have to press the right arrow four times to move from screen one --> four. The result is I only use two screens at most, meaning they get quite cluttered.
Ugh, it's not sensitive enough. I don't know how sensitive the HD shock sensor needs to be though... but I wish I could just tap the edge of my monitor.
There's another library called smslib which does a totally unrelated thing - send sms. <a href="http://smslib.org/" rel="nofollow">http://smslib.org/</a>