Use Shake-To-Undo on the MacBook Pro
If you’ve used an iPhone or iPad much, you’re undoubtedly familiar with the ‘shake-to-undo’ motion sensing feature that lets you literally shake the device to undo an event or clear a text box. With a little help of a third party tool, we can bring shake to undo to Mac laptops that are equipped with a sudden motion sensor (SMS), mostly MacBook Pro’s and newer unibody MacBooks. The tiny app works by activating Command+Z when movement is detected by the SMS.
If you’re concerned about accidental undos from moving your Mac laptop around, you can prevent this by enabling the ‘Confirmation Overlay’ from Shake To Undo.app’s menubar. This causes a simple confirmation dialog to appear when the sudden motion sensor has detected a shake, clarifying that you want to clear or undo text.
I’m not sure how useful this really is, but it’s fun in the same way that the MacBook Light Saber app, just don’t shake your Mac too hard!
Thanks for the tip Anthony
I like the lead in graphic.
Isn’t cmd+z (two fingers) tremendously easier than lifting your entire laptop and shaking it? (2 hands) A lot safer, too.
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This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of.
Seconded.
Super bye bye 5400 rpm HDD hheheh
unless my mbp is equipped with an SSD, i won’t bother trying this.
Can you turn of the SMS all together?
Would not recommend that..
And how many people just typed gibberish then shook their device to see if it worked..?
At least one…right here
won’t that screw with the hard drive?
Well yes and know, it will get a shock but the SMS is their to prevent damage from happening. It puts the hard drive in standby mode in an instance. It takes the laser arm of the disk platter to prevent damage.
But you better not do this all the time, doesn’t save you any time and might damage your hardware.
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yeah, that sensor is there to prevent damage to your data in case of the worst case scenario… i wouldn’t recommend doing this for more than the novelty of it. besides, its a bit impractical, unless you just like slinging things around like in the old trapper keeper commercials…
OMG what a great app. Can’t wait to get if for my Mac Pro :-)
Sounds like an accident waiting to happen.