Cool MacBook Pro Tricks
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How To Install Smackbook On A Macbook Pro
Here are the steps:
- Download the patched DesktopManager here.
- Download Smackbook’s zip folder of patches from the original site (direct link)
- Download amstracker from this page.
There, now you have everything downloaded that you’ll need. On your desktop, you should have a folder called “smackbook“, a Desktop Manager application, and a gray square called AMSTracker. Now that you have the parts, let’s get it activated.
- Put “AMSTracker” into the “smackbook” folder.
- Start up “Desktop Manager” by double clicking on it.
- Start the application called “Terminal”. use Spotlight to find it or look in your Utilities Folder, which will be in your Applications folder.
- When started, the bottom line will end with a $ and a grey box. Right before the $ is your user name. The gray box is where your typing will go. From here type “cd /Users/username/Desktop/smackbook”. Don’t put in the quotation marks and be sure to write your actual username instead of the word “username”
- Press Return. You should now see “~/Desktop/smackbook username$” and a gray box.
- Now, where the gray box is you should type “perl smack.pl” without the quotation marks.
- Press Return and you will see “AMS hardware present and initialized”
That’s it. Tap the bottom right hand corner of your screen. Start off soft and get a little harder each time so you know how hard to hit it. If you are giving it a good tap and it’s not working, don’t start pounding it. Go thru the steps again and see if you missed anything. You can write questions in these comments if you’d like. I’ll try to answer the ones that I can.
Now, your goal is to show off to your friends, but not so much that they want to tap your computer every time they walk by and keep you from working.
November 25th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
I love mine…… but hadn’t seen some of those tricks…. I’m still running Tiger, not Leopard, so maybe that’s why?
December 14th, 2008 at 9:38 am
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December 30th, 2008 at 8:36 am
So what are all the app’s that you used to get this to work? thanks
January 13th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
It’s call smackbook and if you look it up on google youll be sure to find the way to download it
October 13th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Too cool, I tried it and works great, now I need to know what app do I need to show that tilting left to right and right to left motion. do our macbook pro’s have gyros like the Iphone?
November 12th, 2009 at 5:48 am
is this capable for snow leopard 10.6?
June 3rd, 2010 at 4:00 pm
hi friend, i tried to follow your instruction, but after the step entering cd /Users/…. , in my terminal it appears like this:
138-38-213-128:~ ngoquoccuong0712$ cd /Users/ngoquoccuong0712/Desktop/smackbook
138-38-213-128:smackbook ngoquoccuong0712$
then after that i tried to type “perl smack.pl” and it didint show anything like AMS working or sth like that.
Could you help me here? Thanks, Neo (ngoquoccuong0712@yahoo.co.uk)
July 2nd, 2010 at 5:29 pm
i installed everything and after i entered “perl smack.pl” i got Charles-Penders-MacBook-Pro:smackbook charlespender$ again. Any reason?
July 9th, 2010 at 11:44 pm
I cannot get mine to work.. typing “cd /Users/username/Desktop/smackbook” with actual username gave me this:-bash: cd/Users/administrator/Desktop/smackbook: No such file or directory
pinggusean:~ administrator$
HELP!
July 22nd, 2010 at 5:02 pm
me 2 i have 15′ core i5 new macbook pro .. please help
September 12th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
it dont work on my new macbook pro, it seems like desktop man. wont even open i manually open but nothing… so when i do the steps everything goes right exept no results after all the terminal part
September 22nd, 2010 at 10:22 am
What’s the song at the end? please tell me
May 16th, 2011 at 5:34 am
Hi, has anyone worked out how to make this work on a macbook pro?
August 7th, 2011 at 5:44 pm
I downloaded everything, started terminal, typed out cd /Users/jessica/Desktop/smackbook and got the correct response. But when I typed perl smack.pl nothing happened.. help please!
October 3rd, 2011 at 10:10 am
Okay, so after I typed in “cd Users/Kaleb/Desktop/smackbook” and hit return, it came up with “smackbook Kaleb$” instead of “~Desktop/smackbook Kaleb$” like you said it was supposed to. I think that is my problem. I typed in “perl smack.pl” and hit return and it came up with “AMS hardware present and initialized” but with i actually tap my computer it doesn’t work. What should I do to fix this?