Well the answer is 33 years old. A very very old stack overflow bug has been discovered in yacc it has been fixed by a new malloc implementation.

More info can be found here and here

New MacBook owners who bought their iPhones and unlock them and set it free from the operators and iPhone 3g owners who at least jailbreak and want to use them freely seems like they will be upset.

The group named “iPhone Dev- Team” that develops softwares to break Iphone’s firmware announced that they broke the Apple’s upcoming iPhone operating system which is under test phase “iPhone OS 2.2″ and after that Apple fans who bought their MacBooks and wants to load the broken software to their iPhones will encounter a bad surprise.

Users using new firmware who wants to jailbreak or break their iPhones states that when jailbreaking their iPhones in DFU mode, new Macbook series laptops won’t recognise them. This situation, makes speculations on Aplle’s way of choosing new protection ways for iPhone’s.

Mac OS X has an elegant way of installing and uninstalling applications, just drag an drop and application to your desired folder and you are done. But once in a while every 10 years or so you need to make a change manually but there aren’t any files to edit it was a just a single file. Well it isn’t, its actually a folder OS X just treats them differently then regular folders on you computer. If you need to edit a setting inside an application manually you can do so in command line (terminal).

To do it, open up a terminal and browse to the folder where the application is you can use the change directory command “cd”, you also don’t need to type the whole folder name just type a few characters and hit tab and it will complete it for you. Following is how Firefox looks on the inside.


$ ls /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/
. Info.plist PkgInfo Resources
.. MacOS Plug-Ins


Most applications has the same structure when it comes to organizing files.


$ ls /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/
CodeResources MailTimeMachineHelper.app/ Resources/
Info.plist PkgInfo version.plist
MacOS/ PlugIns/


Files and executables are under ‘MacOS’ folder. This is where you should look for the file you are looking for. Another neat trick is, you don’t need to run an application from GUI (Graphical User Interface aka aqua). If you need to run Firefox from command line you can use…


$ /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin


Here is a small trick for you to change your file, folder, application… icons to whatever you want.
For example; you like the Apple’s HD icon. Go to your Finder, right click to your HD and select get info. Now, you see HD icon in the top left corner. Select the icon and copy. (by pressing Command+c)

Then, right click to folder or file you want to change. Again go to “get info” section, select the icon and paste the copied icon. (by pressing Command+v)

Microsoft Office updated 2004 and 2008 packages. This update fixed the stability problems. Office 2004 updated to 11.5.1, Office 2008 updated to 12.1.2. By the way, Office 2008 update is nearly 160 MB.
For more information about the updates you can visit the Microsoft’s page.
Office 2004 Version 11.5.1 Update Page
Office 2008 Version 12.1.2 Update Page

Apple Developer Connection (ADC) members have been testing Mac Os X 10.5.5 for couple of weeks. From the last Os X 10.5.5 build 9F13, they have nearly made 120 changes to the system which includes AirPort, Finder, Network, Address Book, Spaces, iCal, iChat, Kernel, Time Machine, X11, Screen Sharing, Fonts, Graphic Card drivers and Data Synchronization.
Mac Os X 10.5.5 update expected within couple of days.

Today, My Mac (Mac Os X 10.5.4) started freezing randomly… Besides, sometimes I get a horizontal line 1px height, screen wide sticking to applications. My initial thought was that it was either my graphics card or my main board going bad.

In order to determine that if the trouble i am having is software or hardware related, i ran the Apple Hardware Test Suite in the Install Disk 1. Putting the disk in and holding D key during boot does the trick for me. After running the extensive test, hardware turned out to be fine.

iTunes is set to rip cd’s using ACC codec but if you want your files in
a different format say mp3. It’s easy…

Just go to.

Preferences -> Advanced -> Importing

and set Import Using to your favorite codec.

Over the recent weeks there has been a lot of talk about a bug with the DNS ( domain name system ) system, it’s been regarded as the biggest security breach in the history of the internet. Basically DNS system is responsible for mapping human readable computer names such as macjuice.com to IP address used by the TCP/IP protocol which runs the internet. In order to view a web site such as macjuice.com you computer needs an IP address, your computer asks which IP address is mapped to macjuice.com and the DNS system returns an IP address such as 67.222.4.232 which is our server.

Problem lies in the DNS server returning a different IP address then the real one.This means you may think that your are accessing your bank account but in reality you may be accessing some malicious server, giving them your account information. More technical information can be found here.

Over the weeks, couple exploits surfaced one of which exploits the Software Update feature of Mac OS X. The best thing you can do for now is head over to Dan Kaminsky’s website, DoxPara Research, and click the “Check my DNS” button on the right to see if your ISP has patched. If you are still vulnerable you are better of using OpenDNS for now.

When you don’t regularly format your hard drive, like the windows folks. You leave stuff around and over time it gets filled up. I usually only format my machine when there is a OS X upgrade that’s more than a couple of years. Sometimes i put some .iso in a folder and forget it, until i notice finder telling me i am running out of space.

When that happens there is a little application that can draw a visual graph of who is using the most MB’s. It’s called Disk Inventory X. It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called “treemaps”. Usage is easy fire it up select a folder it will scan the folder and create the graph. Basically the bigger the box the more space its eating.