The Mac Pirate’s Toolbox, aka “Essential Apps For The Digital Junkie”.



Out of the box Apple’s Quicktime supports a dismally small amount of filetypes and video codecs. Therefor VLC Media Player with its comprehensive support for different video files and video codecs is a must have for any OS X digital junkie who does not spend his or her time accumulating content solely in the iTunes Store.

DOWNLOAD VLC MEDIA PLAYER

The Mac Pirate’s Toolbox, aka “Essential Apps For The Digital Junkie”.

Fair enough. If you wanna be a digital junkie you’re gonna need some data. To connect to P2P BitTorrent file sharers and get some data you’re gonna need a BitTorrent client. uTorrent is a lightweight and fast client that has been popular on the PC-side for many years and has recently been brought to the mac. Even though it is in beta it is recognised by most as being ready for prime time.

Download BitTorrent files from tracker sites like mininova and thepiratebay and open them up in one of the above BitTorrent clients to download the data to your mac.

DOWNLOAD uTORRENT

“I don’t know of anyone who has successfully cracked apps from the iTunes Store…” – Andy Ihnatko, November 2009.

Listening to Macbreak Weekly is pretty fun, especially when Leo forgets the names of the different releases of OS X. But I had no idea how much fun Macbreak Weekly could be until Andy Ihnatko and Leo Laporte revealed their total ignorance about cracked iPhone apps! Also guilty were the show’s other guests, Don McAllister and Wil Harris. For shame.

When you consider Andy Ihnatko writes books about the iPhone this faut-pas will surely have him shaving off his mutton chops and turning in his utility belt so that another Jedi might carry on his work.

OK Andy, so chapter elevnteen will be called www.appulo.us … and you’re gonna say how every fraggin’ iPhone app (even the totally shit ones) are cracked and ready to be downloaded and installed onto any jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch with a Patched MobileInstallation Library. Then you’ll tell them how to patch a mobileinstallation library. Or I will.

This revelation occurred in Macbreak Weekly episode 166 and the offending excerpt can be heard below. That’s right! This is mac celebrity gossip! WARNING: This clip damaged the podcasting careers of 4 men, 2 of them British: http://machacks.tv/clips/MBW-TWITS.mp3