Skip Checker

Fun with your Mac’s Sudden Motion Sensor

Download (Version 4, 304KB, includes source code)

Requires Portable Mac with Sudden Motion Sensor.

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Thanks to: The unimotion project for making a library for reading the Sudden Motion Sensor on various computers and to Andy Matuschak for Sparkle.

Enjoying Skip Checker? … and have Apple’s Developer Tools on your machine? Then you may enjoy our Quartz Composer in Sudden Motion plug-in as well. It lets you use the current motion of your computer to control your animation in Quartz Composer.

Version History:

v4 (2006-10-27)

Plenty of changes and additions:

Introduced a calibration of the Motion Sensor
Introduced a new ‘Sound’ section that turns your SMS equipped computer into an instrument.
Renamed ‘Fun’ section to ‘Vision’
Fixed the file icon display
about 50% speed improvement
Internal restructuring to iron out some rough spots I didn't like

v3 (2006-10-14)

A few tweaks giving:

more reliable saving
more reliable text colouring when loading a saved file
hide the SMS value readings by default
correctly set default value for repetition interval
added Sparkle to automatically check for updates

v2 (2006-10-09)

Complete rewrite, extension and renaming to Skip Checker. New features include:

Support for MacBooks and MacBook Pros thanks to the unimotion library
Advanced mode for using custom scripts
Gimmicks

v1 (autumn 2005)

Initial version, named SkipTunes that skipped songs on PowerBooks and iBooks when the computer was slapped

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