HackAAPL: Hacking Apple Products

How To:
Begin by downloading and verifying the GnuPG archives from. Here’s what to type:
curl -O ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.10.tar.gzcurl -O ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/gnupg-1.4.10.tar.gz.sig
If this server does not work please take a look at the morrors page of GnuPG at http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/download/mirrors.html, choose a mirror and replace the URL in an appropriate way. For instance choose curl -O ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/crypt/mirror/ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/ gnupg-1.4.2.2.tar.gz
To [...]

The 10.6.2 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes for:
an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly
a graphics distortion in Safari Top Sites
Spotlight search results not showing Exchange contacts
a problem [...]

That’s so 2008, instead use a service like wakoopa.com or alternative.to to discover what others are using, and what are popular in each category. This can save you a lot of time scanning through silly blogs like this one with top lists just seeking out traffic. Wakoopa itself will install an app, which I’m not [...]

VMWare released the final version of VMWare Fusion 3 for Snow Leopard. VMWare Fusion has a long list of improvements, most notably including:
Improvements for Snow Leopard

Support for both 32-bit and 64-bit Snow Leopard kernels
New 64-bit native core engine leverages power of 64-bit Snow Leopard
Leverage K64 kernel performance improvements for reduced overhead
Leverage Snow Leopard changes for [...]

Security is never fun, sometimes Snow Leopard may repeatedly ask you for to accept a certificate for an application you trust. This may be either a webpage, secure IM client, wireless, etc. The way to fix this is to navigate to Finder -> Applications -> Keychain Access

Find the certificate in question, highlight, click get info.
Click [...]

VMWare Fusion Release Candidate Feature Highlights:
VMware Fusion Technology Preview Release Candidate includes over 250 bug fixes and enhancements. Highlights include:

Full support for Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” including K64
64-bit native engine for Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard for better performance
Full support for Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines with Windows Aero, [...]

If VMWare Fusion crashes for some reason and will no longer let you access your virtual machines, rather displays that they are in use, you may try the following steps to resolve the issue.
1.  Quit VMWare Fusion.
Before you start, make sure that you have totally quit VMWare Fusion, and it is not running in the [...]

VMWare Fusion now supports Aero “Glass” theme on Windows 7.
It is sure far prettier than the basic theme, but you’ll need the latest VMWare Fusion beta (http://info.vmware.com/content/6693_FusionTest_REG)

Tweaking VMware Fusion for the Best Experience
Have a MacBook Air or other Mac with 2GB or less of RAM?
VMWare Fusion by default is set to optimize performance for virtual machines disk access by caching IO in memory. The consequence of this is of course less RAM is available to the host or OS X as [...]

Currently in testing and due out the end of the week, is Apple’s first update for Snow Leopard which should notably the following changes.

Network Diagnostics now offers to remove manually-entered DNS values for DHCP configurations
Software Update for printer drivers of Bonjour/USB printers
HICocoaView double-redraw during live resize
Bluetooth connection to nearby printers on startup
libdispatch object use after [...]