On Apr 20, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: > You know that "About this Mac" window that can be accessed at the top of the > Apple menu on the menu bar? look at it. > > Well, the reason why this is "supposedly" running Snow leopard on a PPC mac, > is because i hacked one of the .strings files that display that system > information. I actually have Leopard on it, but since Leopard and Snow > Leopard's GUI on the desktop don't look too different, I waned to surprise > people on how I did this. A couple of weeks ago, I learned this trick on Mac > OS X hints website. > to modify the file that shows the information, go to: > > file:///System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/AboutThisMac.strings > > open it with textedit. > > If you see the following lines that look like this, except with leopard's > info but want to change it to Snow Leopard, copy this: > > /* The format string used to generate the Build text field in the About This > Mac window. */ > /* The "%@" sequence is replaced by the build number. */ > "ABOUT_BOX_BUILD_FORMAT_STRING" = "Build 10C540"; > > /* The format string used to generate the Version text field in the About > This Mac window. */ > /* The "%@" sequence is replaced by the version number. */ > "ABOUT_BOX_VERSION_FORMAT_STRING" = "Version 10.6.2"; > > Then save it to the desktop and uave it as: AboutThisMac.Strings using that > specific format, otherwise it won't work. Then drag it to the English.Iproj > folder, authenticate it, replace it, and click on the About this Mac button > on the Apple Menu. You will get the same result I did. > > --Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. OH OH busted. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP
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