The Mac OS GUI and all it’s eye candy is a pleasure to use and look at. By holding down the Shift key, you can slow down virtually any Aqua effect in Mac OS X, from minimization to expose. If you want something truly useless but kind of fun, you can make the slow effect permanent by typing the following command in the Terminal:
Enable Slow Animations:
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation -bool true
Disable Slow Animations (default):
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation -bool false
For changes to take effect, you’ll need to reload the Finder either by logging in and out, or by killing the Finder. You can kill the Finder via the command line by typing:
killall Finder
