Wednesday, 1 March 2006

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 ecial %26quot orn Mode." One e ecially gifted reader made my joke a reality:
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 Xcodeon the Tiger DVD; you'll have to i tall this separately)i talled. I also recommend that you make a backup copy of Safaribefore you begin.

Here's the ste as emailed to me by Josh:
  1. Right-click on Safari(.a ) and click on %26quot how Package Content quot;
  2. Follow the trail to Contents > Resources > English.Iproj > MainMenu.nib
  3. Double-click MainMenu.nib to open Interface Builder.
  4. Click on the %26quot afari" test menu that po up, and double-click on %26quot rivacy Browsing".
  5. Replace it with %26quot orn Mode" :)
  6. File > Save.. and restart Safari.
You're done. Enjoy your new hacked copy of Safari, featuring Porn Mode.

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