In a previous post on deploying Xcode components, I showed how the iOS Simulators are defined in a metadata file used by Apple, called dvtdownloadableindex, which is a binary plist containing information about all the “Components” available in the Downloads preference area. What’s useful about this file is that it describes in a human-readable way [...]
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New utility: XProtect Packager
February 11, 2013
Roughly a week after the first widespread panic with the XProtect mechanism disabling Java on OS X, the same thing happened with the Flash plugin, with Apple issuing a definition update blocking all old versions about 3 hours after the latest Flash was available. (At least this time a newer version was available.) It’s clear [...]