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Have you ever laid awake at 4 AM on an Easter Sunday because of the coffee dessert you ate, thinking about a squeaky toy you had seen earlier that evening? No? Alex Metcalf has. And this is the result.
Squeaky Toy Deluxe will surely delight you, especially if someone has installed it on your machine without your knowledge. The purpose is simple; play a squeak sound whenever you click the mouse. At this, STD succeeds brilliantly.
Installing STD is really quite simple; just double-click the icon, and you’ll be instantly experiencing squeaky-induced joy. The quality displayed here is phenomenal; a click-and-hold plays one downer of a squeak, while releasing the mouse button plays a different, uplifting squeak. It even appears to have some random variation in the sounds — FOR MAXIMUM LASTING POWER!
Unlike its acronymic namesake, this STD is easy to remove. Lucky for us, because damn, it gets annoying, unless you happen to be some sort of extraterrestrial who requires high-pitched noises on a regular basis to survive. We suggest several additional features to increase the lovability factor:
Alex Metcalf, for crafting a wonderful application that is simultaneously extremely annoying and mind-blowing, we award you a glowing, radioactive 4.4. But obviously it should immediately be rewritten in Cocoa, with generous use of “metal,” to be fully Mac OS X-compliant.
Posted by jan at April 23, 2003 02:48 PM | TrackBacksimultaniously?
Posted by: Paul on April 23, 2003 03:26 PMThat is the GREATEST PROGRAM EVER.
Too bad it wasn't out on April first...
Posted by: Dave on April 23, 2003 03:44 PMIt reminds me of the great sound I used to get from squeezing my ole cat Bubba. One day I did it too hard, and suffice to say, he's no longer with us. Just a squelch, and he was gone. I try to squeeze my kids, but they just don't make the same sound.....
Posted by: stizzzzoned on April 23, 2003 05:37 PMOh my god! This is the perfect thing for my 2 and 4 year old nieces.
Posted by: Jerome Chan on April 23, 2003 09:06 PMSQUEAK SQUEAK
Posted by: michael on April 23, 2003 09:28 PMWhen I was a young man, pottering about in my toolshed and indulging in a little gardener ... er, gardening, if something developed a squeak, we bloody well oiled it!
Bit like those natives in Northern Sandblightistan! Squeaky little buggers kept going on and on about colonial masters oppressing them, and all that rot. Well someone had to lie under the leg of the pool table when it broke, and it wasn't going to be an officer of the crown, sir! No, nasty little Sandblighters didn't know what side their bread was buttered!
The bloody squeaking went on for so long that eventually we decided to oil it. Turns out that they gave us the perfect opportunity, too. One night, the ungrateful wretches surrounded the fort -- seems they were a bit put of that we hung some rebel chappie and flogged the skin from the backs of half a dozen others. So while they carried on -- "Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!" -- we oiled 'em! Soon put paid to the bloody squeaking, you may rest assured!
Pity we used up so much of our precious firewood heating the oil, though ...
Those were the days, Belvedere, what! Now, when you've finished chewing off my corns, fetch my pipe will you. There's a good chap. And how about a dram of that Wee Jock McStrap whisky? My dear fellow, not for me! For you! To wash your mouth out! Your breath is horrid, old bean!
Posted by: aussie boy on April 23, 2003 10:09 PMIs there anybody here?
[SFX: Crickets chirping, empty swing-chair creaking.]
Posted by: The Man who Fell to Earth on April 24, 2003 06:55 AMThere are squeaks now
please stop the squeaks
for the love of god
stop the squeaks
i'm sorry, the aussie overload is oversqueezing the wonderful perversiontracker
come back perversiontracker
come back
Posted by: jabbo on April 24, 2003 12:56 PMCool concept, but who really cares that it is a Carbon App???? Yeah I know that Apple is now pushing the Mach-o as the standard app, but if it runs native that is the main concern. Does Adobe, Microsoft, Corel, and any other big name Software company use Cocoa yet? NO!!! Most of the apps you use everyday are carbon. Besides maybe it was written in REALbasic, which only compiles to Carbon or Classic.
You people and your Carbon vs Cocoa BS. It just shows how little most people know of programming, when they infer that Carbon is crap.
Posted by: Paul on April 24, 2003 06:20 PMPaul, a word of advice. Open a dictionary -- that's a big book with lots of words in it, in alphabetical order. No, not the telephone book ...
Now, look up "infer". OK, look up "imply". And what about "state", or "say"?
And now, write out 100 times: "If someone infers Carbon is crap, it means they've deduced that it's crap, not said that it's crap." It's a common enough mistake, so it's hard to blame you for it, but it does rather make a mockery of your argument. Care to start again?
Posted by: Merriam Webster on April 24, 2003 07:03 PMPaul:
While you're at it, look up "sarcasm" and "parody." They both apply to the Carbon/Cocoa thing.
In other words, I was parodying the people that say things like that.
Posted by: Jan on April 24, 2003 08:48 PMPerfect. Just perfect. And annoying.
Posted by: Sandy on April 28, 2003 09:29 PMAnd yet oh-so-delicious. But then, I'm a Haz Labber. I
Posted by: Foxeryn on May 9, 2003 02:34 PMbut actually, merriam webster should know that inference ? deduction
Posted by: as long as we're being pedantic on May 19, 2003 12:00 AMsorry, that should have been inference doesn't equal deduction
Posted by: on May 19, 2003 12:01 AM