People keep poking my screen

[Hoef]

Arghh I hate it too .... When people reach out their hand to you screen, sneeze on them Still have to clean the screen afterwards though

 

[SilentPanda]

Just poke them in the eye.

 

[mfacey]

I agree I hate it when people touch my screen. But what ranks equally high in my computer irritations list is people using my stuff with grubby fingers.
I can't stand it when people who have just eaten a hand-full of potato chips and then brush their hands on their jeans and happily start using my keyboard and touchpad. I can't stand a sticky/greasy computer! What is wrong with these people?! Isn't this obvious.

This has been something that has bothered me since I was like 7 when I got my new Super Nintendo. NO PLAYING UNTIL YOUR HANDS ARE WASHED! This lasted through my N64 and now has moved on to my Powerbook.

 

[Chappers]

Just kill the buggers that do it - they never do it again.

 

[Sharewaredemon]

Just kill the buggers that do it - they never do it again.

Killing them is not satisfying enough, I think they should be petrified.

I honestly cring every time someone points to something on my screan, of course, I have an eMac, but still, it bothers me, but, I just suck it down, and clean it every week or so.

 

[748s]

nothing worked for me, until..........i had to keep a bit of curtain rod on the desk. soon as the finger went up it got whacked. the behaviour was modified.

 

[Palad1]

I honestly cring every time someone points to something on my screan,

What kind of device is a screan? A screen that starts screaming when someone touches it?

Always wanted one of those!!!

 

[wordmunger]

Given that all the CAD people (whose screens seem to be touched the most) aren't reporting any damage, I suspect touching isn't going to hurt your screen. I think you're going to have to just chalk this one off to human nature and keep a supply of screen wipes handy.

 

[neut]

yeah, last night this dude was totally touching my screen right in front of me... i almost bit his arm off but his [yuck]blood content[/yuck] might be a little shady.

i think people don't realize that there exists a relationship between the Mac and it's user(s). most people wouldn't touch something else of yours without asking would they?

just look at them with that, 'i'd totally kill you right now if i didn't know you, but since i do i'll give you one more chance and you better not ****ing touch it again... thank-you. " look. and in all seriousness say, "... please don't touch my ****ing screen." (****ing is optional)


peace.

 

[wPod]

no, its not good for the screen!!!! eventually they could cause dead pixles or distorted colors. and if they press hard enough they could even crack the screen. so, to prevent anyone from touching yoru screen this is what you should do.

go to a cheap electronics store and buy the largest bottle of liquid screen cleaner you can. hide it under your desk. and the next time someone touches your screen, imidiatly pull out the bottle and hose down the screen and wipe it off with a handfull of papertowels. (black and white newspaper is actually very good at giving glass a streak free shine. . . learned that from car shows to keep car windows extra clean) pretty soon everyone will know not to touch your screen and will stay a few extra feet away from your screen (though they might stand a few extra feet away from you as well). . . . for added fun effect mutter something about germs or finger prints as you obsesivly wash the screen!!!

 

[Raid]

Go old school on them; Hire a retired nun from a near by catholic school to stand by your screen. Give her a yard stick and tell her that anyone even coming close to touching the screen gets whacked.

BTW can they even call that orange powder on cheeze doodles "cheeze"?

 

[neut]

no, its not good for the screen!!!! <snip> go to a cheap electronics store and buy the largest bottle of liquid screen cleaner you can. hide it under your desk. and the next time someone touches your screen, imidiatly pull out the bottle and hose down the screen and wipe it off with a handfull of papertowels. (black and white newspaper is actually very good at giving glass a streak free shine. . . learned that from car shows to keep car windows extra clean)

ever notice all those little scratches on car windows? that's caused from the textured paper you are using to wipe them off with. you DO NOT want those scratches all over your monitor. over time it will look dull and foggy and you maight start getting white spots from buffing a spot too much. clean with Klear Screen and a really soft rag (like an eye glass cloth) in the morning (while the screen is still cold), it will be nice and shiny... ready for smudgey hands to be put all over it ( )


peace.

 

[gekko513]

I don't know if it has changed, but when I was in college we got a brand new computer lab with LCD screens. It didn't go many weeks before screens started to break and signs were put up warning people not to touch them.

I just tried to touch my last generation Apple 23" LCD and it has a harder surface, but I still don't think it's safe to keep poking it.

 

[Doctor Q]

There have been plenty of suggestions on getting revenge on people who touch the screen, or teaching them a lesson they won't soon forget.

But what we need are ways to keep them from touching it in the first place. Extreme vigilance ("Freeze, mister!") and highly tuned motor skills (near-poke...whap!) are the best methods I've found.

Maybe I should add a little sign:

Maybe I should tape a picture to the frame showing what horrible thing happened to the last screen-poker, like a Mac-poking version of this:

Or maybe there should be a finger/screen/redcircle/slash international symbol sticker prominently visible.

 

[DanTekGeek]

slap them. you can do this in a way that makes it seem like you are playing around, but they will get the message. everytime you see one of them reaching for the screen, or actually touching the screen, slap their hand down. not hard, but enough that they notice. then, say something like "NO TOUCHIE!", or something else with that message that goes alone with the playing around idea. or, if it gets really bad, just start slapping them.

 

[efoto]

I would hope that it is alright (not recommended) to touch a screen softly, the manufacters must take this into account knowing its destined to happen. What scares me is not the ever so soft caress but the push that causes colored rings around the finger tip.

I wish I could store something in a hollow tooth, tear into their arm, and then say "welcome to the world of ****(fill with horrible disease). I have choosen to give this gift to you for your superior incompetence and I feel you should never reproduce, therefore I have done my part to kill you off."

Maybe a bit less harsh, but I like this, it has bite
oh man....sooooo funny, can't stop laughing its just that good

 

[wPod]

ever notice all those little scratches on car windows? that's caused from the textured paper you are using to wipe them off with. you DO NOT want those scratches all over your monitor. over time it will look dull and foggy and you maight start getting white spots from buffing a spot too much. clean with Klear Screen and a really soft rag (like an eye glass cloth) in the morning (while the screen is still cold), it will be nice and shiny... ready for smudgey hands to be put all over it ( )


peace.

thats odd. . . i cleaned my monitor (21" flat screen CRT) for more than a year like that when i was working at an engineering company. i got the idea from a guy who cleaned his monitor somtimes multiple times a day from it. he said he learned it from car shows. (and a couple other guys agreed) but we always used newspaper. . . maybe thats 'softer' than other papers. i dont know, but i never saw any scratches. (and this other guy would have flipped if he saw a scratch!)

 

[Apple Hobo]

I hate fingerprints on any monitor. I mean I really hate fingerprints on screens. A single piece of dust or a single follicle of hair on my screen will drive me nuts until I wipe it off. This is no joke. I constantly wipe my CRT with screen cleaner. Yeah, I'm weird!

 

[Poeben]

Just set up Exposé to show the desktop when the mouse is in a specific corner. When you see the finger approaching, a flick of the mouse should either confuse them greatly, or at least remove the object of their desire.

 

[neut]

thats odd. . . i cleaned my monitor (21" flat screen CRT) for more than a year like that when i was working at an engineering company. i got the idea from a guy who cleaned his monitor somtimes multiple times a day from it. he said he learned it from car shows. (and a couple other guys agreed) but we always used newspaper. . . maybe thats 'softer' than other papers. i dont know, but i never saw any scratches. (and this other guy would have flipped if he saw a scratch!)

interesting. i guess it would only cause dulling on plastic (if i did) and im surprised to hear it didn't leave light scratches all over. i guess if you willing to try it... sounds like it worked for you.

i try to keep monitors dust free. it seems to reduce smudging.


peace.

 

[jared_kipe]

Oh god my mom used to do that to my powerbook screen. With her long nails, she could really make me mad.

 

[lisius_kent]

DONT!

Im applecare certifed, and they only state again and again and again DONT TOUCH A LCD screen. It contributes too dead/stuck pixels.

 

[Jaz]

or you could just make a working model of a guillotine mounted on top and when anyone asks you, you tell them that it is automatically activated when it senses a finger touching the screen.....

Oh yes please, that would be perfect.

OT but I had a colleague that once made a functioning desktop trebuchet out of ice-cream sticks

Got the design off the web, used AA batteries for counter-weight and a mouse ball as projectile ... worked pretty good. It was triggered by the kind of behaviour described in this thread

 

[IDANNY]

This might be a bit much but I hate when anyone uses my computers.

 

[Counterfit]

Unbelievable - he left the base of the skull exposed! Surely he must know that the aliens use the reptilian brain stem to gain access to the entire brain. Poor Counterfit. He's lost now; surely they've gotten to him.

I'm fine, their satellites only have a very narrow angle to beam with, so they could never get to my brain stem unless I was lying down.






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