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.

Tweaking

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.

Usage

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

System Requirements

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

Downloads

• Application and Source: iPanic 1.1.1.dmg (476KiB dmg)
  SHA1(iPanic 1.1.1.dmg)= 33995567874b77e6e71814e245a751306973e660
  

License

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

Version History

• 1.1.1 - December 19, 2007
  Added big icon to make the Leopard happy
• 1.1 - May 2, 2007
  Rewritten in C with XCode using Carbon. Now it's smaller, faster and better.
• 1.0.1 - November 13, 2006
  Compiled with REALbasic as a Universal Binary. Over 7MiB in size.
• 1.0 - September 23, 2006
  First version, made with REALbasic