iPanic

iPanic will simulate a Mac OS X kernel panic.
For added realism, during the simulation application switching, force quit and exposé are disabled, but you can quit with Command-Q.

You can tweak the time iPanic will spend bouncing in the dock, and the time between the screen freeze and the dimming starts by editing the PanicBounceTime and PanicFreezeTime values in the application bundle's Info.plist file, located in iPanic.app/Contents/Info.plist. These values are in seconds, but you shouldn't use very low values for PanicFreezeTime because it can prevent the menu bar from being hidden in time. For more extreme tweaking, the source code is included.

Double click to run, or set it as a login item on your victim's Mac.

iPanic will run natively on Mac OS X 10.4 or newer, on PowerPC and Intel.

You can also download the latest source from the subversion repository:

svn checkout svn://vc.namedfork.net/namedfork/iPanic/trunk

iPanic is free software, distributed under the WTFPL, you just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO

• Show new panic image when running on Snow Leopard.

• Added big icon to make the Leopard happy.

• Rewritten in C with XCode using Carbon. Made it smaller and faster.

• Compiled with REALbasic as a Universal Binary. Over 7 MiB in size.

• First version, made with REALbasic