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Remove Store Arrows in iTunes 8

Written on September 15, 2008 by Stephanie Guertin and 10 people have commented

I updated iTunes to version 8 following the “Let’s Rock” event the other day - Genius looked snazzy, and I wanted it! - and was merrily looking through my recommendations when I noticed something a little strange. The arrow links to the iTunes store were appearing again. One of the first things I do upon installing [...]

Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD

Written on June 22, 2008 by Jenny Kortina and 42 people have commented

I wrote about this a while back on my blog, hackaddict, but it was such a popular post I thought I’d give it a revisit. A lot of people buy used Macs, and they often run into the problem of not knowing the admin password, so here is a way to get around not [...]

Say goodbye to the transparent menu bar

Written on October 30, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 11 people have commented

One of the biggest complaints made by new Leopard users is the semi-transparent menu bar. Depending on what wallpaper you have set on your monitor, it can get pretty funky up there.
It was bound to happen sooner or later, but barely 3 days after Leopard’s release we now have a simple app that changes the [...]

Add Ringtones to your iPhone

Written on July 17, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 6 people have commented

Hack The iPhone has posted an in-depth walkthrough on how to get custom ringtones working on your iPhone.
It requires quite a bit of hackery and, if you’re not careful, could very well kill off your iPhone altogether.
I honestly don’t think I’d want to risk that considering it costs a small fortune to purchase an [...]

iPhone’s Root Password Already Cracked

Written on July 05, 2007 by Nick Santilli and 3 people have commented

While this information will currently be of no use to you, it’s still interesting/impressive - and maybe only if you’re a hacker at heart…
It seems that it took some curious iPhone users only 3 days to hack an iphone firmware image and discover the encrypted root password and then to crack it. The super-geeky [...]

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