Ball is a brilliant enjoyable mission for Mac that’s goofy, easy, and wildly inventive. It’s, properly, a digital bouncy ball.
Ball lives in your Mac Dock, and if you click on on the Dock icon, the bouncy ball pops out and drops onto your display. The large purple bouncy ball has first rate physics too, so you may drag it excessive and drop it, and it’ll bounce down and round, or you may throw it in opposition to the aspect of your display and watch it ricochet round. Simply mess around with it, that’s what it’s for.
Ball could also be fully pointless from a productiveness standpoint, however it’s additionally unreasonably entertaining and enjoyable to play with. Whether or not you’re bored at work, college, or dwelling, now you may digitally fidget with a digital bouncy ball in your Mac display.
(When you’re unfamiliar and need help figuring out how to download from Github you definitely aren’t alone, click on on “Releases” to seek out the precompiled downloads)
Click on on the Ball Dock icon and the ball will seem on display.
Click on on the Ball Dock icon once more and the ball will disappear.
Try the animated GIF and embedded video beneath when you simply wish to see it in motion with out taking part in round with Ball your self. However actually, when you have a Mac, and prefer to goof off a bit, it’s a small obtain, and enjoyable to mess around with.
Cheers to developer @nateparrott on X/Twitter for this enjoyable little Mac digital toy! Don’t overlook to follow @osxdaily on X / Twitter too whilst you’re at it.
this week i am FINALLY going to share + open-source three little random tasks I have been engaged on!
this is the primary one: BALL
it is just a bit ball that lives in your dock. take it out, throw it round, put it again. is available in one colour: purple. bouncy. pic.twitter.com/PKx6TjAC1s
— nate parrott (@nateparrott) June 24, 2024
It’s not fairly a sport, although it form of is, however it’s definitely one of the inventive, enjoyable, and distinctive Mac apps I’ve seen in fairly a while, reminding me of a number of the shareware greats from method again within the Traditional Mac days like googly eyes that adopted your cursor.
When you loved this little bouncy ball, you may appreciate some of the other fun stuff we have covered, too.