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Category Archives: Hack or Crack
Custom Ringtones and SMS alerts for hacked iPhones
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
This is really here for me to keep track of. Life in 0 and 1 has a nice little tutorial on how to change SMS alerts on a hacked iPhone. This is for hacked iPhones only. You can pick up quickpwn here
Dissable Spotlight in OS 10.5
Thursday, September 4, 2008
This is really here for me to find later, hope this helps others: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071102215912892
iPhone Ringtones
Sunday, July 20, 2008
If you’re not up to making your own ringtones for the iPhone with Garageband you should try out Audiko. Audiko, has pre-made ringtones as mp3s, m4r (for the iPhone), and AMR-nb formatted are all available. N.B. The file SentMessage.caf is used for the sent SMS tone.
Backup data using Amazon’s S3 on the Mac
Monday, February 11, 2008
There are other solutions to backups not involving Amazon’s S3. If you insist on using S3, this seems like the easiest solution, the comments hold particular value; suggested usage includes rdiffs and swapping out launchd for Automator and ical. Read the article here.
Some useful OS X hacks
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Lighten OS X’s Load with: Turn off widgets: In a terminal type: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES killall Dock You can turn widgets back on with: defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO killall Dock Make hidden apps ( in 10.5) look transparent: defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES killall Dock
Internet Connection Sharing with OS X
Friday, December 21, 2007
With OSX this is brain-dead simple. To share an Internet connection through the AirPort, go to System Preferences and click on the Sharing item. Highlight “Internet Sharing” from the list on the left (but leave it unchecked). Next, select the connection you wish to share, from the drop down list and how you would like [...]
Full Filenames in the Finder
Sunday, December 16, 2007
By running the two commands below, in a terminal, it’s possible to get OS X’s Finder to display the current full path as the window’s title. $ defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES $ killall Finder It’s not possible to edit or “grab” the path. Power users might like the Finder’s “Path Bar” more. You [...]
Build wget for the Mac
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Looks like Apple has neglected to include the command line tool wget for a while now. I was able to find a precompiled binary for 10.4, but 10.5 is so recent that it looks like wget hasn’t make it’s way on to the tubes. If you’re looking for wget why not build it yourself? The [...]
Build Your Own UPS
Sunday, October 14, 2007
This article doesn’t need much explanation and I’m eager to attempt it. Mike Howes at Icrontic has written an awesome how-to. Read more here.