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Mac Crack Attack

Mac Crack Attack

tetris-like game for one or two players

Version:  1.1.3

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Why does this app phone home?

Feedback Type:  Troubleshooting Report

Contributed by: mike.mac_dotmac Saturday, November 27 2004 @ 03:54 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

My experience is this app tries to phone home; when denied it quits. I haven't made it past this yet. Running a robust mac on 10.3.6.
  
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3 comments |

Why does this app phone home? - Daniel_Aarno_728

This is a problem with the auto-update feature that checks for new version. Hopefully I can have a fix ready soon. To solve the problem for now one could create an property list named MacCrackAttack.plist in ~/Library/Preferences/ with bool entry of true for the key version_check_disabled. This would look like:
 



< plist version="1.0">
< dict>
version_check_disabled

< /dict>
< /plist>

 

In other words, to fix this problem create a file ~/Library/Preferences/MacCrackAttack.plist with the above text using your favourite text editor (~ denotes your home directory)

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Saturday, November 27 2004 @ 04:32 PM PST


Why does this app phone home? - Daniel_Aarno_728

Please ignore the previous post, it looked good in preview but was totally garbled on submission. A fix has been released and version 1.1.1 should not have this problem.

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Saturday, November 27 2004 @ 05:44 PM PST


Why does this app phone home? - mike.mac_dotmac

Wow, a fix posted within two hours of a posted comment. That's pretty amazing customer service, esp. for freeware. I'm suitably impressed!

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Saturday, November 27 2004 @ 07:57 PM PST