Mac OS X Pranks--A most entertaining read! And thanks for the warning...
Riley
· 2 years ago
@AvidReader, I am glad my compilation of pranks entertained you! Have fun pranking your friends.
Debbie
· 1 year ago
Hold shift and repeatedly press F11. It's annoying because you can;t stop it yourself you have to wait ages
Riley
· 1 year ago
Thanks, Debbie! This one is great. Notice that I added a "Reader Suggestions" section above!
Jordan314
· 1 year ago
These are great. Can't get the screensaver one to work in Leopard. This is a way you can put the computer to sleep: sudo shutdown -s now
hehehe
Jordan314
· 1 year ago
Hmm the last one opens up a terminal window on the remote machine with every command you've typed, which is weird but interesting. You could use this instead: sudo osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to sleep' You can also do things like this to open a dialog box: osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"' -e "activate" -e "display dialog \"Happy April Fools!\"" -e 'end tell'
Jordan
· 4 months ago
Can you please explain in depth how to ssh people from your computer? Can it only be done between 2 Macs, not between Mac & Windows? What is the command to ssh? Is it ssh user@ipaddress? Also, what does smbclient -m do?
Thanks
Riley
· 1 year ago
@Jordan314-With April Fool's Day quickly approaching I appreciate learning new Mac pranks to use on the Zaphu team! Keep 'em coming ;-)
Scott
· 1 year ago
I conceived this original April fools prank a couple months ago, and I've been itching to pull it on a buddy of mine. Finally got my chance today.
Change the keyboard to Dvorak via System Preferences > Input Menu. Check Dvorak and uncheck US from the list. Alternately, you can leave both checked, but US might have precedence, so you can opt to "Show input in menu bar" which allows you to make a quick change between the two. Then uncheck to hide it again, or leave showing if you want to provide a little hint, or if you think the user is unsuspecting.
I created a fancy riddle for mine, and I led up to it with some Confusious-like sayings about being lost in translation, references to the tower of babel, etc. It was a blast. I had my victim fooled for a while, until he found the riddle hiding under his keyboard. He was intelligent enough to solve it fairly quickly, although I spelled it out in this part of my riddle:
"Fear not, don't worry, you haven't been hacked. To spell it out clearly: Tsfq.d nddl H.soavqh!"
If you type that in, with Dvorak active, it spells "You've been Dvorak'd!"
Fun times! Jarrt Arogp Yssp;!
Riley
· 1 year ago
@Scott-That is quite an elaborate April Fool's Prank! I am glad that none of the Zaphu guys pulled that one on me. Thanks for commenting, and be sure to let us know if you create any more clever pranks!
Steve
· 1 year ago
Hey Guys, loving the pranks! Found another one that makes your screen look like it's broken?! Wicked for laptops, set it goin and close your mates laptop.. They've got most of the others on here too but the broken screen one is good.
Hi, A freind of mine panic daily because he thinks hackers are after him. He is 32 and his father runs a mutli million dollar business. He is currently dating a girl that he has done back ground checks on her because he thinks she is after his money. He truly thinks that hackers are getting into his phone and eleting out his emails and programs. the fact of the matter is that he goes onto every single flagged website and subscribes to anything that pops up on the screen causing all his computers with crazy pop ups and potential virus. He live in another state and I an looking for a prank to get him trough email. Again he is using MAC i have windows. He visits my office bi-weekly. Is there anything I can remotely send him or any file avaiable that when he opens it he gets a really crazy looking fake virus pop up or something of the sort. Please advise I am open to any suggestions you may have.
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Can't get the screensaver one to work in Leopard.
This is a way you can put the computer to sleep:
sudo shutdown -s now
hehehe
sudo osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to sleep'
You can also do things like this to open a dialog box:
osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"' -e "activate" -e "display dialog \"Happy April Fools!\"" -e 'end tell'
Thanks
Change the keyboard to Dvorak via System Preferences > Input Menu. Check Dvorak and uncheck US from the list. Alternately, you can leave both checked, but US might have precedence, so you can opt to "Show input in menu bar" which allows you to make a quick change between the two. Then uncheck to hide it again, or leave showing if you want to provide a little hint, or if you think the user is unsuspecting.
I created a fancy riddle for mine, and I led up to it with some Confusious-like sayings about being lost in translation, references to the tower of babel, etc. It was a blast. I had my victim fooled for a while, until he found the riddle hiding under his keyboard. He was intelligent enough to solve it fairly quickly, although I spelled it out in this part of my riddle:
"Fear not, don't worry, you haven't been hacked.
To spell it out clearly: Tsfq.d nddl H.soavqh!"
If you type that in, with Dvorak active, it spells "You've been Dvorak'd!"
Fun times! Jarrt Arogp Yssp;!
it's here : http://www.appleanarchy.com
Keep it up!!
Steve
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