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The new MacBook Pro Touch Bar is here, so it's time to say goodbye to productivity.
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From composing catchy tunes to playing games or making fart noises, Apple's latest MacBook Pro feature has inspired a slew of quirky apps and hacks that you'll want to try out.
We're not saying they're all useful, but there's no denying they're entertaining AF.
SEE ALSO: Apple's MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is simply superb
Here are some of our personal favorites:
Touch Bar Piano is a piano built into the Touch Bar of your 2016 MacBook Pro. The piano is fully polyphonic and has a choice of 128 different instruments. This app requires a 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. Apple 13.3' MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, 2.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Iris Plus 655 - Space Gray (Mid 2018) (Renewed) 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 $1,299.00 $ 1,299. Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar. Widgets manager for MacBook's Touch Bar. Pock is a free, open-source tool that gives you quick access to your favorite controls and services while maximizing your on-screen real estate. Machine learning. The magic of machine learning The machine learning technologies in the M1 chip open up a world of possibilities for Mac apps. Machine learning lets apps build and apply models based on massive amounts of data — to do things like identify friends and family in photos and videos, interpret natural language for dictation, and even analyze audio to recognize laughter, applause.
TouchSwitcher and Rocket
These apps are extremely helpful and make great use of the Touch Bar. After launching TouchSwitcher you'll be able to easily access and switch between all open applications on your MacBook without having to individually cycle through them.
Long gone are the days of wasting time looking for apps on your dock.
Similarly, Rocket allows you to switch between apps quickly, but lets you launch any app on your MacBook Pro’s dock, not just the ones in use. You can also use Rocket anytime, anywhere on your Mac, since it's a standalone menu bar app. This means you're not just confined to your touch bar.
Doom
Side note, as ridiculous (ly amazing) as Doom is running on the Touch Bar is… the HUD is equally great pic.twitter.com/RFwq7nJ7ae
— Adam Bell (@b3ll) November 20, 2016
Yes, the new Touch Bar runs Doom! Facebook iOS engineer Adam Bell brought the game that's been played everywhere from an early 2000s digital camera to an old Nokia phone, to the Touch Bar to prove you can play yet another squished little version of the classic game.
Bell configured the Touch Bar so it would display his health, ammo, weapons and other stats while the game itself appeared on the laptop's main screen.
I mean, it's obviously not an ideal setup, but hey, it works.
Nyan Cat
If nothing else, at least buy a new MacBook Pro to watch that adorable, rainbow-loving Nyan Cat fly across your Touch Bar. Using code posted to GitHub by Vatsaev Aslan, you can have one of the internet's favorite memes by your side to lighten the mood while you work.
KnightTouchBar 2000
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Who wouldn't want to turn their MacBook Pro into Kitt from Knight Rider? With the KnightTouchBar 2000 from GitHub, you can zone out to the repeating Knight Rider theme song (this could get super irritating) while watching your Touch Bar mimic the illuminated front of everyone's favorite Pontiac Trans Am.
Touch Bar Piano
Thanks to app developer, Graham Parks, your fingers can easily take a break from typing on laptop keys to tickle some virtual ivory keys.
With 128 different instruments, such as drums, strings and even choir 'aahs' at your fingertips, Touch Bar Piano allows you to master the art of playing music on your Mac.
Pac-Man PacBar
Celebrate your love for 80s arcade games by bringing the beloved Pac-Man to your MacBook Pro Touch Bar. 'PacBar,' as it's called, lets you use your laptop's arrow keys to move a little tiny Pac-Man left, right, up and down to escape ghosts. It's available for free download on GitHub and the joy and nostalgia it will bring you is also priceless.
Lemmings
This may be the best app I've ever built pic.twitter.com/Z9WJi7e74G
— Erik Olsson (@valross2) December 11, 2016
iOS engineer and app designer, Erik Olsson, is throwing it back to the 90s by allowing you to transform your Touch Bar into a stage for some cute little green-haired lemmings to walk across.
With this perfect merger of 90s simplicity and modern day tech you can let the lemmings strut their stuff across the length of your laptop or stop them in their tracks with a simple tap.
Be sure you have some bumpin' Lemmings music playing in the background.
TouchBarDino
Pac-Man and Lemmings might be old-school but if you truly want to travel back to rudimentary graphics and utility, we suggest TouchBarDino. Guide your tiny little dino to safety by tapping on the screen by tapping on the screen to hop over cacti, but be warned, it's quite addictive.
TouchBar Santa
'Tis the season for Santa to grace your Touch Bar, falalalala la la la la. Perfect for the holidays, TouchBar Santa, available on GitHub, will have jolly old Saint Nick scampering across your laptop in his classic red suit.
What better way to get in the Christmas spirit while you're doing your last minute online shopping?
TouchFart
You've heard of 'touch to start' and now there's 'touch to fart.'
After you drop thousands on a new laptop, you deserve to act a little immature. TouchFart is here to help. The downright dumb app, available on GitHub, serves as a modern day whoopee cushion for Apple lovers. Thanks to two fart-related emoji (💩 and 💨 ) that will appear on your Touch Bar, you can prank friends with mortifying sounds at the push of a button.
Happy hacking and don't forget to use your Touch Bar to the fullest.
BONUS: The 3 best things about the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar
Class: TouchBar
Create TouchBar layouts for native macOS applications
Process: Main
new TouchBar(options)
options
Objectitems
(TouchBarButton | TouchBarColorPicker | TouchBarGroup | TouchBarLabel | TouchBarPopover | TouchBarScrubber | TouchBarSegmentedControl | TouchBarSlider | TouchBarSpacer)escapeItem
(TouchBarButton | TouchBarColorPicker | TouchBarGroup | TouchBarLabel | TouchBarPopover | TouchBarScrubber | TouchBarSegmentedControl | TouchBarSlider | TouchBarSpacer | null) (optional)
Creates a new touch bar with the specified items. UseBrowserWindow.setTouchBar
to add the TouchBar
to a window.
Note: The TouchBar API is currently experimental and may change or beremoved in future Electron releases.
Tip: If you don't have a MacBook with Touch Bar, you can useTouch Bar Simulatorto test Touch Bar usage in your app.
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Static Properties
TouchBarButton
A typeof TouchBarButton
reference to the TouchBarButton
class.
TouchBarColorPicker
A typeof TouchBarColorPicker
reference to the TouchBarColorPicker
class.
TouchBarGroup
A typeof TouchBarGroup
reference to the TouchBarGroup
class.
TouchBarLabel
A typeof TouchBarLabel
reference to the TouchBarLabel
class.
TouchBarPopover
A typeof TouchBarPopover
reference to the TouchBarPopover
class.
TouchBarScrubber
A typeof TouchBarScrubber
reference to the TouchBarScrubber
class.
TouchBarSegmentedControl
A typeof TouchBarSegmentedControl
reference to the TouchBarSegmentedControl
class.
TouchBarSlider
A typeof TouchBarSlider
reference to the TouchBarSlider
class.
TouchBarSpacer
A typeof TouchBarSpacer
reference to the TouchBarSpacer
class.
TouchBarOtherItemsProxy
A typeof TouchBarOtherItemsProxy
reference to the TouchBarOtherItemsProxy
class.
Instance Properties
The following properties are available on instances of TouchBar
:
touchBar.escapeItem
A TouchBarItem
that will replace the 'esc' button on the touch bar when set.Setting to null
restores the default 'esc' button. Changing this valueimmediately updates the escape item in the touch bar.
Examples
Below is an example of a simple slot machine touch bar game with a buttonand some labels.
Running the above example
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To run the example above, you'll need to (assuming you've got a terminal open in the directory you want to run the example):
- Save the above file to your computer as
touchbar.js
- Install Electron via
npm install electron
- Run the example inside Electron:
./node_modules/.bin/electron touchbar.js
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You should then see a new Electron window and the app running in your touch bar (or touch bar emulator).