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Get seasick with Liquid Mac
You know that sudden motion sensor that's buried in your Mac to protect your hard drive? Want to have a little fun with it? Then check out Liquid Mac, a neat little app that makes your laptop's screen look like it's filled with colored water. Once you've downloaded the app, select the color and response sensitivity you want, then gently tilt your laptop and watch the fluid splash around the screen. It's oddly soothing, actually, unless you slosh it around too fast and make yourself nauseous.
When you tire of making waves, adjust the settings to represent beads and watch it rain on your screen. To see Liquid Mac in action, check out this cool video.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jared Cook said 12:43PM on 6-13-2008
I think my accelerometer is installed backwards -- the liquid sloshes the wrong way. Same thing when I use the Tunnel game ( http://uri.cat/software/Tunnel/ ). Anyone else have this problem?
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Ksilebo said 12:44PM on 6-13-2008
Here's one that lets you do more. I was playing with this for hours.
http://www.octaveengine.com/en/casual/trial.html
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Tony said 1:16PM on 6-13-2008
Great stuff.
btw. My accelerometer appears to be reversed too.
Jake J. said 1:37PM on 6-13-2008
Well, that isn't useless at all... :)
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PSM said 1:28PM on 6-13-2008
Cool little app. My accelerometer also appeared backwards until I checked the "flip axes" button.
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Kim K said 1:28PM on 6-13-2008
Too bad it doesn't do upside down, just left and right.
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wizzle said 2:01PM on 6-13-2008
shame not all 'Mac' computers are laptops :-(
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brian said 2:29PM on 6-13-2008
You know the old trick where you can use your screensaver as your desktop background?
http://www.macworld.com/article/46794/2005/09/ssaverdestkopanimate.html
It would be cool if this could run like that. Then you could let it run when you're working in a car or plane. Then you could research which method is the best for getting puke out of a laptop keyboard. :-)
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Brandon Martinez said 11:43PM on 6-13-2008
Hmm, that is a neat concept. DO IT! DO IT! DO IT!
Big John said 2:48AM on 6-14-2008
Neat app. Thanks for the small time waster!
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