Big Book of Apple Hacks by Seibold, Chris -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Define Your Needs Using Pre-OS X Macs Using OS X Hardware Getting Your Domain Opening Your Router So Your Web Server Can Peek Out Setting Up Your Web Server on Older PowerPC Equipment

Let’s configure your new web server

Pulling It Off with OS X

HACK 12: Two Ways to Reset Safari HACK 13: Ditch That Hidden Data

Viewing Metadata Ditching the Metadata

HACK 14: Scrape the Web for Images HACK 15: User-Initiated Privacy for Web Applications

3. Hacking Mac OS X

HACK 16: Know Your Cats HACK 17: Kill Dashboard

Unhacking the Hack

HACK 18: Move a Widget to the Desktop

Later

HACK 19: Turn Your Desktop into a Font of Useful Information HACK 20: Tame the Finder

Undoing the Hack

HACK 21: Use That Software Restore Disk on (Almost) Any Mac

Target-Disk Mode Approach (Not 100% Safe)

Install bundled software Installing operating system Why isn’t this procedure 100% safe? Two old machines

Installation of Single Packages (Safe but Complicated) Change the Requirements (Safe)

HACK 22: Get Things Done with Automator

Quit All Applications Workflow Access the Media Browser Watch Me Do Locating Your Workflows

HACK 23: A Context Menu for Moving Files HACK 24: Free Up Gigabytes of Space on Your Hard Drive (and Never Miss the Data)

Removing Unneeded Language Files Getting Rid of Unneeded Printer Drivers Slimming Down iPhoto

HACK 25: Create an Encrypted USB Drive

Getting Started Using Your New Image

HACK 26: Capture That Screen

Capturing the Whole Screen Capturing a Portion of the Screen The Next Level in Screenshots

HACK 27: Launch in a Different Way

LaunchBar Quicksilver Spotlight Plenty More Where That Came From

HACK 28: Meet the Dictionary: Your Hidden Wikipedia Browser

4. Command-Line Fun

HACK 29: Meet Unix HACK 30: Getting Things Done with the Command Line HACK 31: Get More Out of Your Mac with Fink and MacPorts

Getting Started with Fink MacPorts Example: Three Ways to Install Gimp

HACK 32: Make Life Easy With Shell Scripts

Variables and Aliases Avoid Drudgery with Shell Scripting Doing Real Work with Loops and Ifs Hacking the Hack

Old-fashioned ways New-fangled ways

HACK 33: Fun with MacFUSE, or Mount Nearly Everything as a Virtual Hard Drive

Use Gmail for File Storage Get More Out of Spotlight

HACK 34: Starting and Stopping Unix Daemons

The Startup Script The Property List

HACK 35: Image Management with ImageMagick

Converting File Formats Create Thumbnails in an Instant Rotate a Set of Images To Add a Subtitle or Text Caption Create a Text Banner Create a Montage Get Information About an Image Bulk Actions on Image Files

HACK 36: Tapping Into Mac OS X from the Command Line

AppleScript Clipboard Open QuickLook Spotlight Take a Screenshot from the Command Line

5. Customizing the OS X Look and Feel

HACK 37: Customize the Login Window

Unhacking the Hack Hacking the Hack

HACK 38: Change Safari’s Error Page

Hacking the Hack

HACK 39: Convert Audio Files with iTunes HACK 40: Replace Mail Sounds

The GUI Approach Hacking the Hack

HACK 41: Rename the Unrenameable

Unhacking the Hack

HACK 42: Create Custom Screensavers

The iPhoto Mosaic Screensaver Build Your Own Screensaver with Quartz Composer

Preparing for the hack

Extending the Hack

HACK 43: Create Custom Icons

Changing Icons the Easy Way: Cut and Paste Designing Your Own Icons

Generating the image Composing the icon

HACK 44: Clean Up That Desktop with AppleScript

Creating the Script Hacking the Hack

HACK 45: Change the Boot Image

Change the Boot Image the Easy Way Change the Boot Image Super Hack Style

HACK 46: Empower the Finder Window

See the Path More Control Over the Sidebar Add Apple-Built Searches

6. Network and Security Hacks

HACK 47: Automate Your Download Folder HACK 48: Approximate a Static IP with NoIP for Mac

Getting the Hack to Pay Off Hacking the Hack

HACK 49: Surf Anonymously HACK 50: Monitor the Data Leaving Your Mac

Using Mac OS X’s Firewall Little Snitch 2

HACK 51: Resurrecting the IPFW Firewall in Leopard

Part I: Configure the Shell Script Part II: Install the Firewall Shell Script

HACK 52: Physical Security Measures for Your Mac

Kensington Cable Screensaver/Sleep Password Use a Login Password Use a Firmware Password

Target-disk mode Single-user mode Password-reset

Safer Still, Especially with a PowerPC Circumventing Firmware Passwords Safer Still

HACK 53: Keep Your Traffic Private with Secure Shell

Tunnels: What and Why? Configuring the Tunnel

HACK 54: Secure Your Wireless Network

Basic Steps (Even if You Opt Not to Protect Your Wireless Network) Disable SSID Broadcast Restrict MAC addresses WEP and WPA-PSK Unhacking the Hack

HACK 55: Share Your Wi-Fi

Configuring the Open Access Router Physically Configuring the Routers

HACK 56: Use Your Mac as an Access Point

Pulling Off the Hack

HACK 57: Hide Sensitive Files in OS X

The Quick and Easy Way: Bury It in Your Library Hide It with a Dot Hiding Files in a Disk Image It’s Better to Be Better

7. Hacking the iPod

HACK 58: Home Folder to Go

Burn Up Your iPod? The Debate Rages! What Your Home Folder Means to You Enabling iPod Data Storage

Transferring your account (pre-Leopard) Transferring your account with Leopard One account or an account to go? Using your Home folder on the go

HACK 59: Boot from Your iPod

Methods to Turn Your iPod into a Startup Disk

Making the iPod bootable with Carbon Copy Cloner

HACK 60: Manage Your Shuffle Sans iTunes

Before You Get Started Installing iPod Shuffle Database Builder Hacking the Hack

HACK 61: Uncap Your iPod’s Volume

Undoing the Hack

HACK 62: The 2¢ iPod Case HACK 63: The Ultimate Zen Hack: iPod Video Cable HACK 64: Good as New: Clean Your iPod

Getting Clean Getting Rid of Scratches The Ugly Truth About Pretty Chrome

HACK 65: Read Wikipedia on an iPod

Using the Script

8. Maximize your Mac with Multiple Operating Systems

HACK 66: Nondestructively Partition Your Hard Drive HACK 67: Run Windows on Your Mac

Boot Camp or Virtualization? Installing Windows with Boot Camp Installing Windows on a Virtual Machine Using VMware or Parallels with Boot Camp Creating a Virtual Machine from Scratch Crossover Mac

HACK 68: Suck Windows Onto Your Mac

Prepping the Windows Box

HACK 69: Move from Windows to Mac OS X Painlessly

Modifier Key Definitions

HACK 70: Panic Swap

Required Items Swapping the Disks Booting the Mac Getting Everything Working

HACK 71: Using Windows Keyboards with OS X

Out of the Box

HACK 72: Boot Another OS Without Losing Uptime in Mac OS X

Is Your Mac Safe Sleep–Enabled? The Easy Way (PowerPC and Intel)

On a PowerPC-based Mac On an Intel-based Mac The Open Firmware method (PowerPC only)

HACK 73: Run Classic Mac Applications with SheepShaver and Basilisk II

Running Classic Operating Systems with SheepShaver

Extending the hack

Running Older Versions of Mac OS with Basilisk II

HACK 74: Build a Screaming Fast Darwin Machine for $935 (or Less)!

The Parts Tweaking the BIOS Installing Darwin Hacking the Hack

9. Hacking the iLife

HACK 75: Get More Out of iTunes

Get Out of Sorts with Your Music Lose the DRM on iTunes Tracks

The long, tedious DRM workaround

Give iTunes Better Ears Overlooked iTunes Features

See the music Control your library with Smart Playlists Add album art to iTunes Fixing bad track information and tags Add lyrics for music

HACK 76: Build a Custom Visualizer with Quartz Composer

Connect to iTunes Elaborating the Hack Pumping Things Up with the Inspector Tighten up the Design Publish the Hue Inputs Hook the Hues Up to Various Frequencies

HACK 77: Get More Out of iChat

Buddy Control Go Invisible or “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You” Free .Mac Screen Names for iChat Accounts Changing Your Own iChat Buddy Picture Secure Your Chats Improve That Video Fix a Remote Computer with iChat

HACK 78: Use a Chatbot with iChat

Target a Chatter Hacking the Hack: Get Chatbots Chatting

HACK 79: Quick iPhoto Tips and Tricks

Print N-Up Pages Print to a Given Size Get at Those Photos Without iPhoto

HACK 80: Tips for Pics

How Much Camera Do You Need?

HACK 81: Get More Out of iWeb

An Aerial View of iWeb Starting Off with iWeb Backing Up an Existing Site Templates and Themes iWeb’s Basic Interface

Themes Text Box Shapes Web Widgets One step forward, two steps back Unmask Sit on it and... Media Adjust The Inspector And the rest...

Inspecting the Inspector (Expect the Unexpected)

Site tab: Site and Password Page tab Photos tab Blog and Podcast tab Text tab Graphic tab Metrics tab Link tab Hyperlink Format QuickTime Tab

You’ve Got the Theory, Time to Practice

Faking Master Pages Size matters Site navigation Not doing it the Apple Way What else do I need? iWeb’s Welcome Page

What’s Next?

HACK 82: Fun with Photo Booth

Better Movies Add Backdrops and Effects to Photo Booth Create an Animated GIF with Photo Booth

HACK 83: Optimize iMovie HD for YouTube HACK 84: Tips for Making Great Movies

Get Some Headphones Spring for a Microphone Get a Tripod Light Up the Subject

10. Hack the Apple TV

HACK 85: Use Your Apple TV with Standard Definition Sets

Getting Color to the Composite Video Plug the Easy Way

HACK 86: Upgrade Your Apple TV Hard Drive HACK 87: Configure the Apple TV for Remote Shell Access HACK 88: Gain Remote Shell Access to the Apple TV (Running Take 2) Without Opening the Case

Required Items Before You Get Started The Hard Work, No 10.4.9 Machine Handy Method Patching the Apple TV Box

HACK 89: Browse from the Couch

Installing Couch Surfer

11. Hack the Latest and Greatest: Leopard

HACK 90: Make Mail Templates Yours

Modifying Existing Templates Undoing the Hack Heavily Modifying or Creating Your Own Stationery Create the World’s Most Annoying Email

HACK 91: A Brighter Spotlight

Spotlight as a Calculator or a Dictionary Use Boolean Searches with Spotlight A More Refined Spotlight Search Set Limits for Spotlight Use the Spotlight Index from the Command Line

HACK 92: Time Machine: How to Back Up Different Folders to Different Disks HACK 93: Two Ways to Make a Widget

Create a Widget with Dashcode

HACK 94: Tweak an Existing Widget HACK 95: Beer Goggles for Leopard

A Different Dock Get the Tiger Dock Back Sometimes You Just Want to Be Different More Discernable Folders Unhacking the Hack

HACK 96: Install Leopard on Unsupported Hardware

The Fairly Obvious FireWire Target Disk Mode Method The Less Intuitive but Universal Method to Get Leopard to Install on Older Machines

HACK 97: Burn Leopard to a Single Disk; Install Leopard from an Image

Burning Leopard to a Single-Layer DVD

HACK 98: Approximate .Mac with Free Tools

Mail File Sharing Syncing Back to My Mac Hacking the Hack Sharing the screen

12. Hack the iPhone

HACK 99: Jailbreak Your iPhone

iPhone Hacking Terms Using Different Firmware Versions HOWTO Jailbreak Each Firmware Version

1.0.0-1.0.2 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 and 1.1.4

How to Jailbreak Each Firmware Version Bypassing Activation

HACK 100: After You Jailbreak HACK 101: Add a Hard Drive to Your iPhone (Kind of)

Pulling Off the Hack Accessing Your Media

HACK 102: The iPhone as a Mobile Educational Tool

Web Resources

Facebook PogoNotes Vitalist

Miscellaneous Resources

Voice Notes iTunesU Keynote and iPhone AV Cables

HACK 103: The iPhone as a Mobile Blog Machine

Get the Right Tools Gathering Content Manipulating Content Creating a Blog Post Organizing Additional Media Promoting Content with Bookmarklets

HACK 104: Going Mobile with PasswordWallet

13. Hacks for Laps

HACK 105: Three Ways to Disable a Built-in iSight

If iSight Bugs You... If You’re Surrounded by the Paranoid... Pretend You Have an iBook or a PowerBook

HACK 106: Two Hacks for the iBook

Two Finger Scrolling Monitor Spanning

HACK 107: Demobilize Your iBook HACK 108: Build a Perfect Laptop Cooler for Your Machine

Determining Your Laptop’s Internal Temperature Building the Custom Cooler

HACK 109: Dual Drive MacBook Pro

Results Extended Use Update

HACK 110: Upgrade a Macbook Pro Hard Drive

Process

HACK 111: SmackBook: The Most Fun You’ll Ever Have Beating Your ’Book

Hacking the Hack

14. Multimedia Hacks

HACK 112: Let Your TiVo Meet Your Mac

Share Your Media Access Your TiVo with Safari Hacking the Hack

HACK 113: View AVI Movies on Your Mac

For One-Off Conversions For More Regular Viewing For Batch Conversions

HACK 114: Master BitTorrent with Xtorrent

Sharing Torrents

HACK 115: Legal Online Sources for Music (Besides iTunes!)

Amazon eMusic MP3Tunes Obtaining Free and Legal Music and Video

Download.com Google Video iTunes podcasts and videocasts Quick mentions Getting your acquisitions into iTunes

HACK 116: Play Songs Sans iTunes

Getting the Software Installed

Copying the files from the Terminal

Listen to the Music

HACK 117: Play Classic Games on Your Mac with MacMAME HACK 118: Connect Your Mac to an Xbox 360

What Is Connect 360? How Does It Work?

Configure Xbox 360 Configure your Macintosh

Summary

HACK 119: Grab and Convert Video from YouTube HACK 120: Keep Your iTunes Library on an External Hard Drive

The Setup Configuring iTunes The Gotchas Adding Media to Your New Setup Be One with Your External iTunes Library

HACK 121: Building a Digital Movie Collection from Your DVD Collection

Fun with Your New Files The Payoff

HACK 122: Create a Screencast!

The Tools

Recording video Recording audio

Say It Loud and Clear Getting Their Attention Where the Magic Happens

HACK 123: Manipulate Audio From the Command Line

Rip CDs to MP3 with lameit

The code Running the hack

Rip CDs to FLAC with flacit

The code Running the hack

Label Your Tunes with id3hack

The code Running the hack

Add Metadata with vchack

The code Running the hack

Fix your Metadata with vctool

The code Running the hack

Convert Metadata to ID3 with vcid3

The code Running the hack

Convert from FLAC to MP3 with flacmp3

The code Running the hack

Simplify Your Table of Contents with striptoc

The code Running the hack

Final Thoughts

15. Hack Some Hardware

HACK 124: Awesome Mini in a Car Hack!

Choosing the Equipment Finding a Home for the Mini The Problem with the Power Switch Powering the Mini Housing the Monitor

Strip things down to the essentials Mount the monitor Fabricate some parts for finishing

HACK 125: Repair Scratched DVDs and CDs

Repairing CDs and DVDs

HACK 126: Use Your Mac as a Weather-Monitoring Station HACK 127: No Lights? No Power? Still Got the Net! HACK 128: Hacks for Smart Homes

Get to Know MisterHouse Installing MisterHouse Getting Connected Adding X10 Devices Scheduling Events Responding to Events Using the MisterHouse Logs Diving In

HACK 129: Twittering Your Home

Why Twitter? My First Implementation Getting Started Implementation Details Hacking the Hack

HACK 130: Create Custom Video Cables

Decide What You Want The Required Tools Making a Custom Length Cable for a Cable Modem Custom Video Cables

HACK 131: Clean the Mighty Mouse

Option 1 Option 2 Reassembling the Mighty Mouse

A. Credits

About the Author Contributors

Index About the Author Copyright

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