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0xED Cocoa Hex editor
Last year I had occasion to use a Hex editor for getting at the insides of a binary and the only one I could find for the Mac was the PPC-only HexEdit. So I was pleased today to discover 0xED, a free Universal Binary, Cocoa native hex editor. One particularly nice feature is the plugin architecture that allows users "easily [to] write plug-ins to display and edit... custom data types." I do have to agree with FreeMacWare, however, that the name needs rethinking.0xED is a free download from Suavetech.[Via FreeMacWare]
Hacker gets revenge on Puzzle Quest's bullying AI
We're not certain what sort of demonic sacrifices Infinite Interactive made to grant Puzzle Quest its hellborn AI, but we imagine that the cursed contract that authenticated the ceremony was written with the blood of many innocents. The match-three puzzler does everything short of outright cheating, stealing your advantages and setting up multiple combos, each computer-cleared gem bearing the mark of Mephistopheles.DS gamer Zaraf plotted a strategy that would tear down the AI's defenses and avenge dozens of unfair losses. Unwilling to spend months leveling up and making preparations, staying his vendetta, he hex-edited the game to to max out his character's stats. Zaraf then armed his warrior with a class spell called Deathbringer, enabling him to fill the screen with an amount of damaging skulls equal to half of his red mana. Head past the post break for the results caught on video.
