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[Digital Trends - Most Recent Guides] OS X Snow Leopard: The Complete Guide: Most notably, the interface now appears directly over the movie being played, which gives QuickTime X a cleaner look, but also obstructs the movie when the mouse is moved to bring up the controls. QuickTime X will also allow users to dice up videos using a quick-trim feature, convert to Web-optimized formats for sharing on YouTube or MobileMe, and even record the screen for making tutorials and other demonstrations.

[AlternativeTo - New Mac applications] Safari AdBlocker alternatives for Mac - AlternativeTo.net: The problem with other ad-blockers for Safari is that they are implemented as awful hacks: as an InputManager and/or ApplicationEnhancer. This compromises the stability of Safari and very often create problems when Apple .

[Mac OS X Freeware] QuickCursor: Unlike custom “edit in” plugin solutions QuickCursor provides a standard open source solution that uses public API's and doesn't require input manager hacks to work. No Tags.

[Daring Fireball] Daring Fireball: Smart Crash Reports: When an app that usesthis API call launches, it checks to see if Smart Crash Reports isalready installed (or if there’s an older version installed), and ifnot, installs it. It does not ask permission beforehand, nor does itreport what it has done afterward.

[ksuther.com] ksuther.com | Blog » Chax 1.5: However whether I choose all users or this user only it asks for my admin pass 3 times and then just drops back to the main dialogue box having done nothing but turned the update button into an install button. Not that 10.4.8 is bad but this is the first time I’ve ever had this problem with Chax and I’d like to go to the new version.

[hicksdesign - journal] An end to Browser pimping? ° The Hickensian ° Hicksdesign: “Apple isn’t really broken up about it since InputManagers were often used for nefarious purposes anyway,” our sources said, but the loss of InputManager control will break a lot of shareware and commercial software that currently makes use of that control.

[Matt Mullenweg] OS X Optimizations ”” Matt Mullenweg: I think this is me being dumb, but 6 years after I got my first Mac I still don’t really understand how to uninstall things. I delete things from Applications, but I still have this feeling they’ve left junk somewhere.

[Walt-O-Matic] Safari 4 Beta - OS X Users: Wait | Walt-O-Matic: As much as you'd like to blame Safari for these issues, sometimes you have to look at the hacks you have installed. Growl in and of itself isn't a hack, but the Growl's own website even describes some of the adapters as Input Manager .

[The macosxhints Forums] Safari frustration - The macosxhints Forums: Turn off any InputManagers that you have in your system (whether they seem specific to Safari or not--one of the many problems with InputManagers is that they are not really specific to anything) and this problem should go away.

[MacOSXHints.com] Toggle flash in Safari via plug-in - Mac OS X Hints: The former is an InputManager-based hack whereas ClickToFlash is a WebKit plugin, taking advantage of a supported API. I prefer clicktoflash over safaristand because I would rather stay away from input manager hacks.

[TextMate Blog] TextMate Blog » InputManagers on Leopard: [...] wenn der Entwickler schon fleißig an der Leo-kompatiblen Version arbeitet) setzen auf die angeblich nicht mehr vorhandene Möglichkeit Input Manager zu nutzen und versagen standardmäßig Ihren Dienst. Hier gibt es aber mit PlugSuit bereits eine [...]

[bbum's weblog-o-mat] bbum's weblog-o-mat » Blog Archive » Sandvox “hidden” feature.: Speaking as the person who took all the Cocoa DTS incidents for about a year, I will go on the record as saying that haxies were a very bad idea from the beginning, and I hope that Apple is investigating ways to render them impossible altogether. Sure, they’re a clever hack, but you don’t know, and CAN’T know how they will behave with every app that they might affect.

[briksoftware Blog] improving debugging in OS X: First i had a look at how gdb is doing it’s po command. It’s basically calling NSPrintForDebugger(someObject) and then it’s copying the result (a C string) byte by byte into gdb and displays it.

[bradchoate.com] bradchoate.com: Input Managers and Leopard: It wants all these hacks to go away on their own since the technology used for its original purpose has been superseded and everything else is just used to duct tape things onto other applications. (They may be *useful* hacks and I use a few myself, but they still inject code into every Cocoa app, which isn't all that good from a security and stability point of view, and practically nullifies any upside to signed apps since you still can't trust that code.)

[Nevyn's blog] devnevyn: build_hd_index is evil.: Interesting: Looking inside /Library/Preferences/com.apple.ARDAgent.plist shows many ARD Admin stations (IP, MAC-Address and more) that once have managed this particular Computer. If you delete the file and it shows up again 1 Minute before midnight, the contents are exactly as they were before deleting.

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