Impress Your Friends: Slow-mo Dock

Apple, you really didn’t have to do this. Really, you’ve done so much. And to update it for Leopard? Oh alright, I’ll just say it. Ever since the debut of OS X, there has been a little trick that I have been using to impress my friends when minimizing and maximizing windows.

By holding down the shift key when minimizing and maximizing a window, the animation takes a longer time, but does it in slow motion. The same happens with Exposé. This little trick shows the power of OS X’s native animation capabilities.

With Core Animation, I’m sure it has less of a load on the system; but Apple didn’t stop there for Leopard. As I was trying to use a stack this morning, I found a new addition to the “Impress Your Friends” skill set. I thought that, perhaps, if I held down shift, I could select multiple icons out of the stack (which I couldn’t). Instead, the stack moved in slow motion back into the dock.

And I did it again and again to the sound of my boyish giggles and unblinking stare. It was so slow that I was able to get this screengrab: