Get your own SmackBook Pro
Remember Scott's 'Smack your MacBook Pro' post from yesterday? It looks like Scott got his wish: now you can go a step further and get your own SmackBook Pro. That's right boys and girls, for the low low price of nothing (all code is released under the GPL), you too can have your very own smackable MacBook Pro. If you don't want to deal with the instructions, some commenters have compiled new versions; scroll down for the links.
It sounds like this might work on any Apple notebooks with a motion sensor, as I also noticed some commenters were tinkering with getting this to work on a recent 12" PowerBook. Either way, Erling Ellingsen has ushered in a brave new world of computing - a world where you can literally smack your computer to make it do something productive.
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5-25-2006 @ 10:05AM
SwissFreek said...
The guy uses a desktop manager and activates it with the smack. Would be pretty neat if the same thing could be done to activate expose, no? Just a thought. Keep the pimp hand strong...
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5-25-2006 @ 10:19AM
kyle said...
Not forgetting the 2005 iBooks which also have motion sensors. Everyone forgets about those ones. :D
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5-25-2006 @ 10:21AM
Jason said...
I want to buy a macbook now just so I can have this feature. It's so flippin sweet!!
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5-25-2006 @ 10:32AM
birdDog digital - Mac Sales Expert Tech Help & Free Podcast said...
This is great! Add iAlertU to this system and you really have the computer paying attention!
I'll try to find a way to add this to my podcast, and report back personally.
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5-25-2006 @ 10:35AM
Joao Carlos de Pinho said...
Cool. But both links point to yesterday's post. I guess the second link should be http://blog.medallia.com/2006/05/smacbook_pro.html
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5-25-2006 @ 11:27AM
OWRC said...
Great idea until you shake the GPU lose with all the abuse.
It does have a certain old school typewriter feel to it though.
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5-25-2006 @ 1:30PM
Scott said...
Stop hitting your laptop!
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5-25-2006 @ 8:11PM
Andrew Harrison said...
i'm sure i posted this in the comments section of the other post.
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5-26-2006 @ 12:41AM
Doug said...
Dude, use hot corners.
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