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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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SwissFreek said 10:05AM on 5-25-2006
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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kyle said 10:19AM on 5-25-2006
Not forgetting the 2005 iBooks which also have motion sensors. Everyone forgets about those ones. :D
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Jason said 10:21AM on 5-25-2006
I want to buy a macbook now just so I can have this feature. It's so flippin sweet!!
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birdDog digital - Mac Sales Expert Tech Help & Free Podcast said 10:32AM on 5-25-2006
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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Joao Carlos de Pinho said 10:35AM on 5-25-2006
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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OWRC said 11:27AM on 5-25-2006
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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Scott said 1:30PM on 5-25-2006
Stop hitting your laptop!
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Andrew Harrison said 8:11PM on 5-25-2006
i'm sure i posted this in the comments section of the other post.
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Doug said 12:41AM on 5-26-2006
Dude, use hot corners.
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