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He mentions the old Dashboard ball widget. There was a glitch you could use to put widgets onto your desktop instead, so naturally every school Mac had 20 bouncy balls on it.
> defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
Maybe there was also a glitch to do it without the Terminal command; if there was I don't know about it.
He mentions the old Dashboard ball widget. There was a glitch you could use to put widgets onto your desktop instead, so naturally every school Mac had 20 bouncy balls on it.
I remember having these kinds of desktop toys in Windows, way back when, probably 95 or 98? Just a little joyful thing you could play with. This rules.
PS. They would use up an obscene amount of memory and wholesale freeze your entire computer every 20 minutes. Didn't matter :)
Why does it only run on macOS 13+?
I've always wanted a ball.
-- A. A. Milne, _King John's Christmas_
He mentions the old Dashboard ball widget. There was a glitch you could use to put widgets onto your desktop instead, so naturally every school Mac had 20 bouncy balls on it.
I don't think it was a glitch, it was a developer mode. You can run in Terminal: > defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES Maybe there was also a glitch to do it without the Terminal command; if there was I don't know about it.
I remember having these kinds of desktop toys in Windows, way back when, probably 95 or 98? Just a little joyful thing you could play with. This rules.