1. Bring up dashboard

2. Either add the dictionary widget to the dashboard or select it.

3. Type the word: democracy into the search box.

4. Click on the thesaurus button on the top of the Widget to switch to Thesaurus mode.

5. Read the sample sentence in the description: A democracy in Iraq is quite unlikely for now or any time soon.

Open Terminal within Applications >> Utilities.

Type in emacs , then press enter.

Within emacs hold down ESC and press X.

If the cursor is on the bottom of the terminal, type snake.

Mac OS X – Tetris Hidden in the Terminal

1. Open the finder

2. Open Applications

3. Open Utilities

4. Open Terminal

5. type “emacs”; click enter

6. Press ESC + X at the same time

7. Type “tetris”

8. Play Tetris! Use the arrow keys to move and rotate the blocks, and press the space to make the blocks fall.

This isn’t really a part of the Mac OS, it’s a part of emacs which is part of the UNIX system.

There are many more games included as well. To know what other games are included, do the following:

Open the terminal again, at the prompt type:

“ls /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/play”

Don’t forget the space!

You’ll get a directory of the games included with emacs, to play these games do the same thing as with tetris

Mac OS X – Other Terminal Games

go to the folder application. Open the ultilities folder. open the Terminal

copy and paste this line of code:

ls /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/play

to play the games, type in ” emacs ” (without the quotes)

press esc and x at the same time

type in the name of the game

To use it:

1. Open a terminal window.
2. Type the following: “defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect -string suck” (no quotation marks)
3. For the change to take effect, you need to restart the dock. You can either do this by:

• Restarting your computer
• By opening the Activity Monitor application (should be in Applications> Utilities), finding the Dock application, and forcing it to quit. Once it quits, it will restart automatically.