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Porn Mode (or How to Hack your Safari Menus)
Our readers are always good. Sometimes, they are friggin' great! Earlier, I made a crack about Safari's new Private Browsing feature being equivalent to a special "Porn Mode." One especially gifted reader made my joke a reality:
Thanks, Josh! Read on after the jump to find out how Josh did it so that you can make your own Porn Mode.
Thanks, Josh! Read on after the jump to find out how Josh did it so that you can make your own Porn Mode.
The requirements: Tiger and Developers Tools (also known as Xcode
on the Tiger DVD; you'll have to install this separately)
installed. I also recommend that you make a backup copy of Safari
before you begin.
Here's the steps as emailed to me by Josh:
Here's the steps as emailed to me by Josh:
- Right-click on Safari(.app) and click on "Show Package Contents"
- Follow the trail to Contents > Resources > English.Iproj > MainMenu.nib
- Double-click MainMenu.nib to open Interface Builder.
- Click on the "Safari" test menu that pops up, and double-click on "Privacy Browsing".
- Replace it with "Porn Mode" :)
- File > Save.. and restart Safari.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Miss_X said 4:28AM on 11-03-2005
I've just come across this post and didn't get my mac that long ago. It has OS X 10.4.3 but I can't seem to do this!! Ive right clicked on Safari on the desktop and it doesn't give "show package contents" option - can someone help me, pretty purlease.
:-)
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Rob said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I think I'll call mine "Bond Mode" or "Go Go Gadget Privacy!"
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Kyle said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I haven't updated to Tiger yet, Tomorrow!!!, yay!, but i still looked into my safari and it has that option in the Interface Builder. Why can't I see it though?
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AltOpt said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
If only activating Porn mode, would also broadcast the Safaris current URL on ones iChat status.
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Kyle said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I haven't updated to Tiger yet, Tomorrow!!!, yay!, but i still looked into my safari and it has that option in the Interface Builder. Why can't I see it though?
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Josh said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Kyle,
There are a bunch of features in the updated Safari for Panther that you can't see in Panther, only in Tiger. You can change them, but you can't use them :)
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Bill Gates said 4:18PM on 6-16-2005
hahaha apple and mac suck they can eat me
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Jenna Jameson said 4:18PM on 6-16-2005
so do i
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plosiguant said 4:18PM on 6-16-2005
I think I need to start working on a new FireFox plugin (or get an iMac, but I think the plugin is cheaper) :)
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Brent said 4:18PM on 6-16-2005
Its just not complete until you edit the dialog box as well.
While you're in there changing the menu, open up the Localizable.strings file and change the rest. Its a plain text file, so you can use your favorite text editor on it.
Search for the following to change the dialog box title:
/* title for Private Browsing confirmation alert */
Change the value on the RIGHT side of the equal sign. It will be in the form of original string = new string.
Search for the following to change the dialog box message:
/* message for Browse Privately confirmation alert */
Same deal as the title. This one is a really long string on one line. You'll be scrolling for awhile to find that equal sign.
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sr said 5:53AM on 6-18-2005
Extra Porn Mode:
Use Safari Enhancer 'disable caching'
don't forget to erase/disable your quicktime caching as well ;)
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