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08/11/2006

Motion-Controlled OS Switching

One of our readers just sent in this nifty clip of a MacBook owner using AMSTracker software and its built-in motion sensor to quickly switch between OS X, CentOS, and Windows XP. Video after the jump. (Thanks, Brian L)

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Posted at 08/11/2006 03:06am by Wally
Looks fake to me. The switching on certain occasions looks like he timed it wrong.
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Posted at 08/11/2006 06:44am by Jan Paricka
Nice. ;-)
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Posted at 08/11/2006 11:59am by Sumeet
That's neither fake nor impressive. If you want to do it, too download VirtueDesktops and set a screen for each OS. His motion-sensing transition, by the way, will become pretty annoying once he starts adjusting his computer a little and finds himself in another OS. Additionally, the method is inconsistent, because a lot of the time tilting the MacBook to the left loads the OS from the left (it should be from the right). He should stick to keyboard shortcuts, since they're 100% consistent and don't require you to lift your MacBook and tilt.
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Posted at 08/11/2006 12:56pm by Bigo
Fake?!? He's "just" using VirtueDesktop and AMSTracker hack to switch between virtual desktops with different virtual machines running different OSes! I've seen lots of better videos than this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dbt9upE6hpM&mode=related&search=
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Posted at 08/11/2006 2:18pm by Huck500
You can't possibly think that he's going to use that as his switching method all the time... he's doing it just because he can, the most common and satisfying reason for doing weird stuff on your computer. Telling people how to do it is great, but criticizing him is a little silly.
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Posted at 08/11/2006 2:50pm by Alex
This is the same thing as the Smackbook haxie, though the sensitivity values have been changed. Only thing different is he's using Parallels in full-screen mode to swtich between OS'es, which many people have done months ago. It uses the same AMSTracker script. I don't see how this is news at all.
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Posted at 08/14/2006 11:30am by huy
He didn't grab a screen, you can see him using the actual OS.
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Posted at 08/18/2006 12:24pm by 我不喜欢-Blog » 3D Desktop
[...] Similar to the motion-controlled OS switching, Bill used Gentoo Linux, a Penmount touchscreen, Gnome, and XGL to create a “3D Desktop” interface. Video after the jump. [...]
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