- #MACPROXY LIFEHACKER HOW TO#
- #MACPROXY LIFEHACKER MAC OS X#
- #MACPROXY LIFEHACKER INSTALL#
- #MACPROXY LIFEHACKER DOWNLOAD#
- #MACPROXY LIFEHACKER FREE#
As with every Evil Week post, the point is to teach you how it’s done so you can do it yourself and protect yourself - not exploit others. Your friendly neighbourhood IT department wouldn’t like you port scanning or sniffing packets on the corporate network, and neither would all the people at your local cafe.
If not, head over to our Know Your Network night school to brush up first.īefore we go any further, though, we should issue a warning: Use these powers for good, and only run these tools and commands on hardware or networks you own or manage.
#MACPROXY LIFEHACKER HOW TO#
We’ll assume you’re familiar with some networking basics, like how to find your router’s list of devices and what a MAC address is. In short: You’ll be able to recognise the signs that something on your network is compromised. In this post, we’ll show you how to map out your network, take a peek under the covers to see who’s talking to what, and how to uncover devices or processes that may be sucking up bandwidth. Additional images by Thomas van de Weerd and Linux Screenshots. Title photo made using Christos Georghiou. Let’s talk about how you can, with the power of evil, sniff around your home network to make sure you don’t have any uninvited guests. Inside it lies tons of valuable information - unencrypted files, personal, private data, and perhaps most importantly, computers that can be hijacked and used for any purpose. If you were hoping to get a look at the source, get support for the app, or ask questions specifically about the project or how it works, you’ll have to reach out to the creator directly via the readme file attached to the download, for now anyway.Your home network is your fortress. Unfortunately there isn’t a Github page with source or an official site for the project, though the developer Tomasz Wojcik mentions they’d likely put it on Github eventually. You can remove the GifPaper preference panel with a right-click:Īnd if you want to end the animated GIF as your wallpaper, either reboot the Mac, or quit the Gif Paper process running through Activity Monitor: Removing GIF Paper and getting the regular wallpaper back again
#MACPROXY LIFEHACKER DOWNLOAD#
Generally speaking it is unwise to download and use apps or files from random web links from an unidentified developer, but this app was found by LifeHacker and it works as advertised (the creepy blinking eyes gif via 2001 (the movie) shown on page is from Lifehacker too). * Download and use this app at your own discretion, currently there is no associated developer page or Github page about the GifPaper app. Of course if you have Gif Brewery than you can use other masterful animated GIF creations of your own doing as well, otherwise a quick Google Image search for “animated gif (item)” or visit to a site like Giphy should find you something to meet your GIF needs. This can be a fun use for your Live Photos converted to GIFs, which is what I have done in this piece with a fireplace gif that was created from a Live Photo. Here’s an example of the Mac desktop with a fireplace GIF in use as the wallpaper background image:Īnd here’s another Mac desktop example with animated GIF as wallpaper via Lifehacker: The animated GIF should load as wallpaper immediately, but if it doesn’t try manually launching the Gifpaper.app to load the gif as the desktop background picture.
#MACPROXY LIFEHACKER INSTALL#
#MACPROXY LIFEHACKER FREE#
#MACPROXY LIFEHACKER MAC OS X#
How to Set Animated GIF as Desktop Wallpaper in Mac OS X If you don’t mind those caveats, here’s how you can use GIFPaper to set an animated GIF as the desktop picture on a Mac. If you aren’t comfortable with any of that, don’t use the GifPaper app for now. Because of all that, using GifPaper is likely better used exclusively by more advanced Mac users, as it’s totally unsupported by the developer (or anyone else). GIFPaper is somewhat experimental at this point, requires skipping Gatekeeper, uses about 15% of CPU to display the animation, requires manually installing a preference panel, and if you want to get rid of it, you have to force quit the associated process through Activity Monitor.