Security researcher Richard Zhu demos iOS 11.4 jailbreak
A security researcher has shown that it’s possible to jailbreak iOS 11.4. This is the latest version of iOS available for Apple’s mobile devices.
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How to automatically hide the Dock on Mac
Did you know you can set your Dock to automatically hide when not in use? This is a great way to regain a little bit of screen real estate on your Mac. In this post, we will show you how to automatically hide and show the Dock, and we’ll even share a pro tip to make the hide/show animation faster.
How to research Terminal commands using manual pages
This guide goes through how to quickly look up the correct usage for Terminal commands, using macOS’ manual pages, from within Terminal itself.
How to make SSH persistent on the liberTV jailbreak for Apple TV 4
This guide will show you how to prevent the liberTV SSH client, Dropbear, from being periodically purged. We will move it from its default location in a temporary folder, to a permanent home on the filesystem, allowing it to be invoked without repeated setup in the future.
How to SSH into your jailbroken Apple TV 4 or 4K and change your root password
This guide will show you how to connect to a jailbroken Apple TV 4 or Apple TV 4K using SSH. It also goes through how to change the default passwords on the device for security purposes.
How to fix: This is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?
Here are several ways to deal with Gatekeeper messages such as “This is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?” and “This application can’t be opened because it was not downloaded from the App Store.”
How to add custom text to a Mac login screen
This tutorial shows you a simple little modification, one which will allow you to display a custom message on your Mac login screen.
How to change the default search scope in Finder
This guide will outline the simple process to customise the default scope for Finder window searches, so that you no longer have to trawl through your full hard drive for a file which you know is in the folder you’ve already navigated to.
How to show basic system information on your Mac login screen
If you’re one of those who love to tweak every little facet of their Mac experience, then this guide is for you. It brings several system information items such as computer name, your current IP address, and your macOS version right to your login screen where they can be easily referenced.
For this modification, all we will need is the Terminal application and a few minutes, so let’s get started!
How to show the expanded Save dialog by default on Mac
By default, the behaviour of macOS upon saving a file is to open a simple dialog window, with only a single drop-down menu showing possible save locations. These locations can vary based on the program settings, your most-used save location, or your last-used save location.
Although this is fine for quickly saving documents to common folders such as Documents or Downloads, it is cumbersome to use the drop-down menu when saving regularly to multiple hard drives and previously unused nested folders. Luckily, there is a way to always show a full file browser in the save dialog for more granular control.
How to SSH into your device from a Mac and change your root password
Sometimes it is necessary to connect to your mobile device from a computer, for troubleshooting purposes or to use a tool which runs from the computer. For example, tihmstar’s Prometheus suite downgrades your device by sending commands to it from the computer on which it, and the files it uses, are stored. The connection used to do this is called SSH, and is normally provided by the OpenSSH package (or an equivalent client such as Dropbear).
In this guide we will show you how to use SSH to connect to your device from your computer. We will also go through how to change the default passwords on your device, because once you have installed OpenSSH, anyone can log in using the default passwords if you do not change them. This is a major security risk, and so everyone who has OpenSSH installed should follow this procedure.
How to fix TinyUmbrella v9.3.4 crashing on launch
Many jailbreakers will be familiar with the program TinyUmbrella, which has traditionally been one of the best ways to save SHSH blobs for their iOS devices onto their Macs for safekeeping. What SHSH blobs are, their function, and how to save them is outside the scope of this article, (I will put something together soon on this), but suffice to say that saving these blobs is of some importance to many jailbreakers and that TinyUmbrella has been the go-to application for doing so for a long while.
Whilst the application was updated as recently as August by its creator Semaphore, many Mac users (myself included) have noted that the new version, 9.3.4, gives an error on launch and cannot be used at all. This guide will walk you through the fix to get your umbrella back up again on Mac, so you can carry on wishfully saving those blobs.