Hacking Mac OS X Tiger: Serious Hacks, Mods and Customizations reviewed by Robert 

Pritchett 

Author: Scott Knaster 

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Released: July 22, 2005 

Pages: 408 

$25 USD $32 CND  17 GBP  22 Euro 

ISBN: 076458345X 

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For those interested in modding their Macs. 

Strengths: Excellent hacks and mods not found elsewhere. 

Weaknesses: None found. 

Hacking Mac OS X Tiger: Serious Hacks, Mods and Customizations by Scott Knaster is a 3 part 

book covering tips, mods and hacks for Mac OS X Tiger. If you are into geeking or hacking, 

there is information within the pages of this book not found elsewhere. Sure, you can download 

the coding, but you will want the book anyway   and not just for its fancy nearly 3D cover. 

Scott Knaster didn't dream up all these himself, he had help from the  hack Pack  and a lot of 

others he has listed on his Acknowledgements page. The book is totally engaging starting with 

turnaround quotes from Bill Joy, who co founded Sun Microsystems and said in 1985 that Mac 

didn't run UNIX to 2003 where he said Mac OS X was a rock solid system and preferred it to 

Linux.  

Don't skip over the Tips section. There are items on unfreezing frozen .zip files, cloning widgets, 

putting the Dock at the top of the screen or sit in a corner, pimping the Blob, changing the dialog 

to something more friendly when apps crash, enabling Root, grabbing iTunes music videos to 

play in QuickTime through Safari, finding hidden tracks on CDs and iTunes, customizing X11 

and a host of other things. 

  MPN, LLC 2005 macCompanion 

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