Hacking Mac OS<sup>®</sup> X Tiger<sup><small>TM</small></sup>: Serious Hacks, Mods and Customizations,9780764583452

Hacking Mac OS® X TigerTM: Serious Hacks, Mods and Customizations

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ISBN13: 9780764583452
ISBN10: 076458345X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-07-01
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary

This serious, but fun, down-and-dirty book will let you make Tiger purr, ensuring that your Macs appearance, speed, usability, and security settings are what you want. Author Scott Knaster: Shows you how to speed it up, lock it down, or pull back the curtains. Dives into default system settings, unlocks hidden gems, and includes original Mac OS X programs with full source listings and explanations. Shows heavyweight hackers the tricks and modes of OS X booting, tweaks for login screens, and how to customize or even kill the Dock. Offers the inside scoop on Dashboard and Spotlight, including two sample widgets and one Spotlight importer, all with fully annotated source listings. Demonstrates how to install and use Unix and X11 applications, take advantage of command line tools, and create system services and active Dock badges. Order your copy today.

Author Biography

Scott Knaster is a legendary Mac hacker and coauthor of Mac Toys, also published by Wiley. His book How To Write Macintosh Software was required reading for Mac programmers for more than a decade. After Macs, Scott's next great love is Mad magazine.

Table of Contents

Introduction xxi
Part I: Tips
Finder
3(12)
List View Open Secrets
3(1)
Attack of the Giant Icons
4(1)
Make Perfect Sidebars Every Time
5(1)
Master All the Columns
6(1)
Set Your Columns Just Right
6(1)
Fun with View Options
7(2)
Use Background Colors and Pictures
8(1)
Show More Information
8(1)
Quit the Finder
9(1)
Make the Default Finder Window Behave
10(1)
Who's Zooming Whom?
10(1)
Go Directly to Secret Folders
11(1)
Show Hidden Files
11(1)
Fix a Frozen Archive
12(1)
Summary
13(2)
Dashboard and Dock
15(14)
Dashboard
15(5)
Make Widgets Go Mainstream
15(2)
Clone Your Widgets
17(1)
Get Reloaded
17(2)
Hold a Widget Tryout
19(1)
Visual Widget Fun
19(1)
Dock
20(7)
Snappy Dragging for the Dock
20(1)
Drag Stuff to Dock Icons
20(1)
Sittin' on the Top of the Screen
21(1)
Make the Dock Sit in the Corner
21(2)
Yellow Means Slow Down
23(1)
Bottle the Genie
24(1)
Dragging Docs in the Dock
24(1)
Hidden Switcher Features
25(1)
The Bouncing! The Bouncing!
25(1)
Fast Folder Access from the Dock
26(1)
The End
27(1)
Summary
27(2)
Preferences and System Stuff
29(12)
Fast Preferences for Sound and Screen
29(1)
Dealing in Volume
30(1)
Mac, Build, and Serial Number
31(1)
Grow That Mouse
32(1)
Hit the Big Time
33(1)
Beware of the Blob
34(1)
Pimp My Blob
35(1)
All My Windows
36(2)
Brighten a Cheerless Crash
38(1)
Summary
39(2)
User Interface
41(10)
Silk Sheets
41(1)
Do All Your Windows at Once
42(1)
Look Out behind You
43(1)
Scroll Right Here, Right Now
44(1)
Follow Your Pathname
44(1)
Escape from Dragging
45(1)
Place Your Arrows
45(1)
Opening Files: What a Drag
46(1)
Menus via the Keyboard
47(1)
Here Be Dragging
48(1)
Can I Borrow That?
49(1)
Summary
49(2)
Startup
51(10)
Hide the Users
51(3)
Console Yourself
54(1)
All Kids Love Logins
54(1)
Root for the Home Team
55(1)
Getting Singled Out
56(1)
Tell Me Everything
57(1)
Flip Your Lid
58(1)
Keep It Safe
58(1)
Get Smart
58(1)
More Startup Fun
59(1)
Summary
59(2)
iTunes
61(14)
Video Forever
61(3)
More for Your Money
64(1)
Seeing Double
65(1)
Outsmarting a Playlist
66(1)
Words and Music
67(1)
Secret Messages
67(2)
iTunes Music Processing
69(1)
Dump Your Dupes
70(2)
Shoot the Screen
72(1)
Summary
73(2)
Nifty Utilities
75(12)
Time to Tinker
75(7)
Finder Settings
76(1)
Dock
76(2)
General
78(1)
Applications
78(1)
Fonts
79(1)
Permissions
79(1)
Safari
79(1)
Two Versions of TinkerTool
79(1)
By Any Other Name
80(2)
Leave Me a Clone
82(1)
Making a Batch
83(1)
Watching Memory
84(1)
Staying Punctual
85(1)
Summary
86(1)
Running Unix Applications
87(14)
Overview
87(5)
Mac OS X Is Unix
87(1)
Tower of Babel: Various Unixes and Linux
88(1)
X Window System
89(1)
How to Get, Install, and Run Unix Apps
90(2)
When All Else Fails
92(1)
X11 (X Window System)
92(7)
Installing More X11 Applications
96(1)
Customizing X11
96(1)
Running Applications Remotely
97(2)
Summary
99(2)
Terminal
101(10)
What Is Terminal?
101(3)
Everyday Terminal Tips
104(2)
Drag and Drop
104(1)
Command History
104(2)
Word Completion
106(1)
Just for Fun
106(3)
Play Tetris
106(2)
See ``Lord of the Rings'' Events
108(1)
Watch Star Wars in ASCII
108(1)
Summary
109(2)
Shell Commands
111(14)
Practical Tips
111(5)
Monitor Your Processes
111(2)
Remote Login with ssh
113(2)
Searching with man
115(1)
More Interesting, Less Practical
116(1)
Find Out about a Command: which
116(1)
Open Files
116(1)
Remove a File Securely with srm
117(1)
Mostly Fun
117(4)
Get File Listings in Color with Is
117(1)
Make a Banner
118(1)
Create a Calendar
119(1)
Check Your Mac's Uptime
119(1)
Determine Your CPU Model
119(1)
Print Text in Reverse
120(1)
Make Your Family Hear Voices
120(1)
Summary
121(4)
Part II: Mods
Inside Application Bundles
125(16)
What You See Is Not Always What You Get
125(1)
Looking at Bundles
126(2)
A Tour of Bundle Contents
128(1)
What's What in Application Bundles
129(8)
MacOS Folder
129(1)
Resources Folder
129(2)
Info.plist
131(5)
version.plist
136(1)
Localized Strings
136(1)
The Do-it-Yourself Bundle
137(2)
Summary
139(2)
Preferences and Property Lists
141(16)
Property Lists for Preferences
141(1)
Looking at Preferences Files
142(6)
Using TextEdit
142(3)
Using Property List Editor
145(2)
TextEdit versus Property List Editor
147(1)
Defaults and Domains
148(6)
Value Types
150(4)
When Changes Take Effect
154(1)
Changing Preferences Three Different Ways
154(1)
Summary
155(2)
Automator
157(20)
AppleScript and Automator: Something Old, Something New
157(2)
Automator Is Not AppleScript
158(1)
Mixed Automation
159(1)
Automator
159(16)
Actions
160(4)
Workflows
164(8)
Automator Tips and Tricks
172(2)
Creating Your Own Actions
174(1)
Summary
175(2)
Xcode and Other Tools
177(22)
Xcode Tools
177(1)
Xcode Projects
178(2)
Interface Builder
180(8)
Customizing TextEdit
182(4)
Customizing iChat
186(2)
Quartz Composer
188(6)
The Ultimate Hack
194(1)
Summary
195(4)
Part III: Hacks
Badger
199(16)
A Review of Dock Features
199(2)
About the Badger Hack
201(1)
Interface Builder
202(1)
Source Code
203(9)
AppController.h
203(1)
AppController.m
204(8)
Extra Credit
212(1)
Summary
213(2)
Word of the Day
215(22)
About Dashboard
215(1)
About Word of the Day
216(2)
Building a Widget
218(9)
Anatomy of a Widget
218(1)
The HTML File
219(1)
The CSS File
220(1)
The JavaScript File
221(4)
Info.plist
225(2)
The Default Image
227(1)
The Icon File
227(1)
Creating Word of the Day
227(8)
The HTML File
228(1)
The JavaScript File
229(3)
The CSS File
232(2)
Info.plist
234(1)
Extra Credit
235(1)
Summary
235(2)
Top Tunes
237(22)
About Top Tunes
237(2)
Origins of Top Tunes
239(1)
The HTML File
239(3)
head
240(1)
div (Main View)
240(1)
div (Preferences View)
241(1)
The JavaScript File
242(11)
setupWidget
242(1)
fetchNewMusic
242(1)
refresh
243(1)
urlForCurrentList
244(1)
xml_loaded
244(2)
getElementTextNS
246(1)
xml_callback
246(1)
drawNewInfo
246(1)
currentList
247(1)
navigate
247(1)
showPrefs
248(1)
hidePrefs
249(1)
resultsChanged
249(1)
changeList
250(1)
Info Button Animation
250(3)
The CSS File
253(4)
albumArt
253(1)
album
253(1)
artist
254(1)
navigate
254(1)
header
254(1)
back
254(1)
numresults
255(1)
prefsLabel
255(1)
maintable
255(1)
rank
255(1)
refresh
256(1)
Preferences Support
256(1)
Info.plist
257(1)
Extra Credit
258(1)
Summary
258(1)
Video Desktop
259(22)
Video Desktop
259(2)
Video Desktop Source Code
261(17)
AppController.h
261(1)
AppController.m
262(1)
MyQuickDrawView.h
263(1)
MyQuickDrawView.m
264(14)
Extra Credit
278(1)
Summary
279(2)
TextFilter
281(14)
About Services
281(1)
Problems When Using Services
282(1)
The TextFilter Hack
283(1)
Interface Builder
284(1)
Source Code
284(6)
AppController.h
285(1)
AppController.m
285(1)
stripTags:userData:error:
285(2)
stringStrippedOfTags:
287(2)
applicationDidFinishLaunching:
289(1)
stripper.pl
289(1)
Editing the Information Property List
290(1)
Adding the Perl Script
291(2)
Extra Credit
293(1)
Summary
293(2)
Spotlight for XML
295(16)
About Spotlight
295(2)
Spotlight Importers
297(6)
Creating an Importer
297(2)
Info.plist and Other Files
299(1)
Command-Line Tools
300(3)
Creating XML Importer
303(5)
GetMetadataForFile.c
303(3)
Info.plist
306(2)
main.c
308(1)
Build and Install
308(1)
Extra Credit
308(1)
Summary
309(2)
Commando
311(28)
The Original Commando
311(3)
Commando Reborn
314(1)
Specifying Shell Commands
315(1)
Commando Source Code
316(21)
CommandoWindowController.h
317(1)
CommandoWindowController.mm
318(14)
ToolParser.h
332(1)
ToolParser.mm
333(4)
Summary
337(2)
mach_override and mach_inject
339(18)
Dynamic Overriding
339(5)
How Dynamic Overriding Works
341(1)
Branch Islands
342(1)
Code Injection
343(1)
Source Code
344(8)
mach_override.c
344(5)
mach_inject_bundle.c
349(3)
Other Sources
352(1)
Dynamic Overriding Example
352(3)
DisposeWindow+Beep
352(1)
DisposeWindow+Beep_Injector
353(2)
Extra Credit
355(1)
Summary
355(1)
Goodbye
355(2)
Index 357

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