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Stories · 8

  1. Unsanity Developer Comes to APE's Defense

    Apple · Macosx · · posted by pudge · from the kill-teletubby-smash dept. · 138 comments
    beelsebob writes "Rosyna, the famously tellytubby-like Unsanity Developer has spoken out in the defense of their Application Enhancer (APE) framework. The framework has taken a beating since it came out, being accused of being spyware, or of crashing computers. In fact Unsanity have only received one bug report about APE itself, which was promptly fixed. The article is a very good defence of the product, and a very good read."

  2. One More Mac Protocol Handler Exploit

    Apple · Macosx · · posted by pudge · from the yeesh dept. · 76 comments
    There's another exploitable protocol handler, this time, ssh. Daring Fireball has an excellent summary of what you can do to protect yourself, using RCDefaultApp, and if you went that direction, and were wise enough to recognize ssh might be vulnerable too, you are safe. Paranoid Android attacks the problem from a different direction, and if you use that, you are also safe.

  3. Yet Another Mac OS X Protocol Handler Exploit

    Apple · Macosx · · posted by pudge · from the hooray dept. · 155 comments
    Rosyna writes "Apple just can't get any breaks lately. First the help protocol handler exploit (which has been fixed), then the telnet handler exploit, and now an exploit for any arbitrary protocol handler: make your own, then exploit it. You can auto mount a volume in Mac OS X via the disk, afp, or ftp handlers (and probably others). Paranoid Android will help prevent exploitation until Apple fixes the problem." The hole here is that when a volume with an application on it is mounted, Apple registers the application's specified protocol handlers, without additional user action. Another option is to disable those handlers that allow volume mounting, but playing that game, obviously, isn't a guaranteed win in the long run.

  4. Yet Another Mac OS X Protocol Handler Exploit

    Apple · Macosx · · posted by pudge · from the hooray dept. · 155 comments
    Rosyna writes "Apple just can't get any breaks lately. First the help protocol handler exploit (which has been fixed), then the telnet handler exploit, and now an exploit for any arbitrary protocol handler: make your own, then exploit it. You can auto mount a volume in Mac OS X via the disk, afp, or ftp handlers (and probably others). Paranoid Android will help prevent exploitation until Apple fixes the problem." The hole here is that when a volume with an application on it is mounted, Apple registers the application's specified protocol handlers, without additional user action. Another option is to disable those handlers that allow volume mounting, but playing that game, obviously, isn't a guaranteed win in the long run.

  5. Metech Offers to Recycle Your Mac

    Apple · Mac · · posted by pudge · from the cheaper-still-is-as-a-paperweight dept. · 60 comments
    Rosyna writes "Apple now allows the general public to recycle their Apple branded computers. It only costs thirty US dollars, too. The dumpster is still cheaper. More details at Apple's page and Metech's page."

  6. Hack Enables Quartz Anti-Aliasing In All Carbon Apps

    Apple · Macosx · · posted by pudge · from the mmm-pretty dept. · 40 comments
    Xenex writes "With the release of Mac OS X 10.1.5 a few days ago, Carbon applications now have access to Quartz anti-aliasing. However, we have to wait for developers to release updated versions of their applications to take advantage it. The people at Unsanity have decided that they didn't want to wait, and have released a 'haxie' called Silk. It forces Carbon applications to use the new Quartz anti-aliasing, and my experiences with it have all been perfect. So, now you can have a beautiful Snak, Mozilla, IE ... if it's Carbon, it's made pretty."

  7. Hack Enables Quartz Anti-Aliasing In All Carbon Apps

    Apple · Macosx · · posted by pudge · from the mmm-pretty dept. · 40 comments
    Xenex writes "With the release of Mac OS X 10.1.5 a few days ago, Carbon applications now have access to Quartz anti-aliasing. However, we have to wait for developers to release updated versions of their applications to take advantage it. The people at Unsanity have decided that they didn't want to wait, and have released a 'haxie' called Silk. It forces Carbon applications to use the new Quartz anti-aliasing, and my experiences with it have all been perfect. So, now you can have a beautiful Snak, Mozilla, IE ... if it's Carbon, it's made pretty."

  8. WindowShade X 2.0 Released

    Apple · Aputilities · · posted by pudge · from the shades-of-mac-os-classic dept. · 13 comments
    slava writes "Unsanity has released a major update to its award-winning haxie, WindowShade X. This haxie (stands for 'Mac OS X hack') adds to Mac OS X the window-collapsing features found in Mac OS 8/9. The new version 2.0 adds some new features, including control over exactly how thick you want your window shadows to be, option-clicking to minimize all windows in current application, a new installer, and more. Get more information and screenshots or download it."