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Make Safari find substring matches by default
So, I thought I’d tip ol’ Pierre at betalogue to an apparent bug that Safari doesn’t find substrings, only words that begin with the search string! But then his astute readers pointed out that Safari 5.1 has changed the behaviour … Continue reading
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Restore previous Safari version from .SafariArchive.tar.gz
Did that new Safari update break something? Want your old version back? Simple. Thanks to Apple’s prescient yet secretive engineers, there’s a way. Let me show you. When Safari does an upgrade it saves the previous version in this location: … Continue reading
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myXProtectStatus
myXProtectStatus – A drop down status menulet for XProtect, showing date, version, and threats protected against. Written in bash, and wrapped with Platypus, it is informational only, so don’t ask me to add some menu item to do something, it just reports. … Continue reading
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Safe Downloads List Info Widget
UPDATE: The AUTOUPDATE code only works as root and so is not useful in the Dashboard environment! This has been removed from the widget. So I slapped together a widget for the Safe Downloads commands I post at OSXHints: Safe … Continue reading
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More App Store tips for admins
Continuing the tech ramble about how to keep the App Store from your users… So, I figured out the two ways the App Store icon is added to the dock: 1. Existing users on an upgraded system are affected by … Continue reading
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App Store tips and tricks for sysadmins
App Store Tips, Tricks, and Hacks for the SysAdmin App Store, oh, App Store, like all Apple products you are made first for consumers and in time maybe you will be ready for corporate deployment, but for now, here’s some … Continue reading
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Tearing apart OpinionSpy
Updated: I’ve linked text files of string dumps to the binaries thoughout the article, I suppose not everyone wants to install and run the code to find out themselves! Another OS X malware media darling is out there, but it’s … Continue reading
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Make Acrobat Pro 9 for Mac shut the hell up!
So, if you deploy Acrobat Pro to a corporate environment you already know what an aggravating experience it is to try and deploy updates to Adobe products. Silent install? Sure. Silent Update? No. Standard Mac .pkg? No. So you figure … Continue reading
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Tearing Apart OSX/RSPlug-F
OK… I might be a bit late to the party (and Conficker is grabbing all the headlines) but there were some interesting things I found looking at the headline grabbing trojan OSX/RSPlug-F. Thanks to the effervescent Graham Cluley for his … Continue reading
New PlistBuddy Behaviour
So, the new UniBody MacBooks come with a build 9G2133 of 10.5.6, currently build 9G55 of 10.5.6 is what’s out there. What’s more /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy has been updated as well 9G2133 (new): -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 84400 Sep 24 17:21 PlistBuddy 9G55 … Continue reading