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10 OS X Pranks That'll Get You Beat Up--or Fired

Posted 07/14/2009 at 7:08:26pm | by Arvind Srinivasan

4 - WTF, I Don’t Speak Tagalog.

The Prank: Unless your target is proficient in 200 languages, this prank will work. Change the language of both the OS and the keyboard input to make your target think that his coffee break bent the space time continuum and left him on a different continent.

What You Need:

>Access to victim's Mac

The Steps:

1) Go to System Preferences > international

Click to Embiggen

2) Click the Language tab, and drag the esoteric language of your choice to the top (above English).

3) Then, go to the input menu tab, select an input language by checking it, and make sure "Show Input Menu in Menubar" is selected

swedish

4) In the menubar, click the flag, and select the language you just installed.

5) Go back to the input menu, and deselect "Show Input Menu in Menubar," making sure the target will have to navigate System Preferences in Swedish before he can change it back.

The Result: Not only will the target not be able to read what he is typing, but won’t be able to read solutions to fix the situation. If you feel really evil, we suggest making the input language Dvorak. This will still be English, but will be a completely different keyboard map, so the target will merely think someone spilled soda on their keyboard.

5 - RickRolled

The Prank: No prank list would be complete without some reference to Rick Astley's infamous "Never Gonna Give You Up." OS X makes it simple to cause lasting psychological damage to the target, solely by modifying the list of startup items.

What You Need:

>Access to Victim's Mac
>Link to your favorite irritating video

The Steps:

1) Go to System Preferences > Users

accounts

2) On the target’s username, click Login Items. Then click the plus button to add a new startup item.

3) Add Safari to the list of Login Items.

4) Open Safari, and go to Safari > Preferences

5) Change the home page to the url of the RickRoll on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI), or, if you are particularly demonic, www.smouch.net/lol. Of course, If you're tired of Rick, you can always use our new favorite, Play him off Keyboard Cat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J---aiyznGQ

The Result: Every time your victim logs in or opens Safari, they will be RickRolled. Note: This works with any browser.

6 - OMG I Hope I Saved My Work

The Prank: While OS X doesn’t have a Blue Screen of Death, the Kernel panic screen is equally intimidating. Make your target think their computer has crashed, when really, it's a screensaver.

What You Need:

>Access to victim's Mac
>Download Kernel Panic Screensaver

The Steps:

screen

1) Install the Kernel Panic Screensaver. Then, choose it in System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver

2) Under the Screen Saver tab, slide the "Start Screen Saver" bar to one minute.

3) Go to System Preferences > Energy Saver, and set "Turn Display Off" to never.

The Result: If the target leaves the computer unattended for a minute, it will Kernel panic. Or at least appear to Kernel panic. Hilarity ensues when the target actually holds down the power button as instructed, and then finds out it was just a screen saver.

COMMENTS: 12

TAGS: Mac OS X, Pranks

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I've done atleast half that
Submitted by jyuichi on Tue, 2009-07-14 17:32

I've done atleast half that list to unsuspecting Windows people at school XD (multimedia lab is mac).

Sleepless Nights & Wakeless Days

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Wow
Submitted by TVanWinkle on Wed, 2009-07-15 03:55

OMg dude that is absolutely amazing dude!

RT
www.privacy-resources.us.tc

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iPhone/iTouch + iTunes = remote sounds
Submitted by Brodie001 on Wed, 2009-07-15 07:52

Our office has a door bell that goes off every time a door opens in the office and our boss always jumps up to see who it is. So on April fools we recorded the audio from the bell, added it to the iTunes of a computer near the physical bell and synced my iPhone Remote App to that computer's iTunes. The result was us sitting in the lunch room laughing our a$$es off as I kept playing the 'bell' to get out boss to leave her office over and over again. She eventually got wise, but it was the best prank ever.

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meh
Submitted by BurmaShave on Wed, 2009-07-15 08:23

Nothing really creative here.
Plus, if you really have someone who'd care THAT much about IE being on a Mac, then give them FireFox, and skin it as IE. Much better. Not to mention that FireF is many, many times better than Safari. Admit it.

The better pranks to play on people, regardless of their OS for me ALWAYS involve my LinuxBox and a Network drive.
lots of possibilities. You can take pretty much anything off of the Mac, or a PC, or another UbuntuBox.

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Parental Controls Prank
Submitted by 128k on Wed, 2009-07-15 09:12

First, get ahold of the victim's Mac, open Safari, and set the homepage to http://pbskids.org/dragontales/index_sw.html Then you should open up parental controls and set that same website as the only one the victim can access. Make sure you leave the volume on the Mac all the way up so that when they open Safari, they are sure to hear, "Let's go to the Forest of Darkness!"

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A tip on the Proximity AppleScript
Submitted by LeftClicker on Wed, 2009-07-15 15:36

(Hmm. The formatting doesn't want to work.) Just in case, set the victim's volume with: /return/set volume 7 /return/beep

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here's a good prank.
Submitted by Derekscrazy on Wed, 2009-07-15 17:59

Here is an awesome prank.

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here's a good prank.
Submitted by Derekscrazy on Wed, 2009-07-15 18:00

Here is an awesome prank.

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One more.....
Submitted by tbird1710 on Thu, 2009-07-16 20:05

you guys gotta add the logmein trick. if you have a logmein account, install the little client thing on the victims computer, and control the heck out of their computer. its awsome, cuz you dont need the administrator password to install the little client thing.....lol

yeah

awsome.

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Proximity Prank HELP HELP
Submitted by t4tennessee on Mon, 2009-07-27 22:05

HELP - I really want to use this prank but can't get it to work. I have followed the instructions several times and just can't seem to get it to work. Is there anything simple that anyone else has had problems with? Can anyone help?

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Pranks
Submitted by zaneboy40 on Tue, 2009-07-28 14:12

I went to best buy the other day, and the mac screen colors were inverted, I ended up fixing them because the employees couldn't figure out how!

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thank you ar..is
Submitted by ammarvvip (not verified) on Wed, 2009-11-11 08:27

thank you ar..is niceee
شات صوتي, دردشه صوتيه, شات مصريه, شات دردشة دردشه دردشة موبايل شات دردشه

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