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Here’s something a little weird and potentially hilariously fun — there’s a little eight-character code that causes pretty much any app on a Mac to crash, instantly. Writing said code, which we had to put in an image using a Windows machine, will cause your app to crash, losing anything open.
Interestingly, it doesn’t seem to work on an old BlackBook we’ve got running 10.7.1 in the office, so it’s perhaps limited to just Mountain Lion, where we’ve confirmed it works in several apps just, err, fine.
Anyway, if you want to totally prank someone today, you know what to do. Just know they’ll hate you forever for losing them their work. Best to do it when they’ve only just started, then? [Open Radar via 9to5Mac]
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Wow, this is seriously messed up. I just read the following passage on 9-5Mac
“all you have to do is type the text below into almost any window in any app on OS X to immediately crash the app. We managed to crash Tweetbot, Safari, Chrome, TextEdit, and more with this bug, but a few rare apps seem to be immune. This bug is so pervasive that typing it into this post crashed Safari and Chrome, so we embedded an image of the text below”
So it literally happens ANYWHERE you type the characters??? W.T.F Apple…
On another note…no support for article sharing to G+?
Gawker, Giz and Future have stopped in time apparently.
it’s only me and a few hundred million people on there – what’s the point?
Thats tragic….
Find me the ACTIVE numbers… not the numbers who have it linked to they youtube and email accounts without even noticing!
Clearly you:
a) Don’t know how to use it.
b) Never used it.
c) All of the above.
d) Have no use for it
Avoiding the figures question? I thought as much…..
it’s clearly reported all the time that Google are trying to force people to use Google+… fair play to them… but the fact they only report Registered users compared to Active users who use Google+ and arent linked to it by mail etc is a clear indication that they are not that impressive… Where as Facebook and Twitter both report active users…
Are you trying to use the Chewbacca defense?
keep avoiding that question………..
I am not avoiding the question, my job is not to search the web and try to educate you on Google Plus, Twitter, Facebook or any other social tool on the web. Here is an article, read it, think about it, a lot, and answer your own irrelevant questions.
http://goo.gl/ZEBIw
Educate yourself….
http://gigaom.com/2012/09/17/google-plus-100m-users/
http://goo.gl/1o4LL
psyduck…..
Why so negative? Even facebook’s numbers are massively inflated – just because young people use it lots doesn’t mean the rest of the population go much further than adding pictures of their kids every few months. G+ isn’t the sort of place you talk about how shit your life is; it’s where people converge to accumulate things of interest. This is why there should be more integration of sites like Giz on there, because it makes sense.
If it makes you feel any better, there’s no sharing to Twitter either
But there is to linkedin?? I thought that was like a facebook for bidniss?
Brilliant..
Well a new version of mountain lion is shipping soon so it doesn’t really matter, and as it has taken this long to find then it can’t really be a big issue can it.
As noted by some developers this is fixed in the new 10.8.3
HAHAHAHAHAA! I’m having a super manic and stressful Monday and then this comes up LOL! Nice one Sam, Cheers for that
Pleasure
CS6 Doesn’t seem to have any problems mail messages and ical all seem borked.
Time to post this on Facebook and see how many of my friends’ days I can ruin!
Got someone to send it to me on skype, it being there or copying it won’t crash anything but pasting = instacrash
“It’s not a bug. It’s an easter egg.”
“You’re typing it wrong”
I posted this today on the MacRumors forum, telling them it was ‘Easter Egg’. Needless to say, they banned me.