Cheap Trick: Mac OS X Pranks

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Although this is one of the shortest chapters in the book, it may be the most: (a) fun, (b) cruel, or (c) a delightful combination of the two. (The difference between “fun” and “cruel” is the difference between “reading the pranks” and “perpetrating them.”) The original outline for this book didn’t have a “pranks” chapter at all, but as I was writing tips for the other chapters, I’d sometimes think, “Boy, if you didn’t know about this, and somebody who did know it wanted to mess with you, they could pretty much bring your Mac life crashing down around you.” I imagined this could create a new brand of Mac heroes—people ...

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