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well finally got this to load properly in opera - wouldn't load in safari or firefox - both upto date. Other than this hiccup good to see machiest back up and running

Can't wait to see what happens next! Free DaisyDisk ain't bad

Hi all, good to be back..

Well now...

Do the expired communications refer to an earlier MacHeist, or this one?  I've followed them, and are having apps show up in my loot box.  Is BOMOMA from last Heist or this one???  I'm finding my way through things quite easily...

As usual I'm not smart enough for this You guys amaze me

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Is it just me or has the front page got the co-ordinates input box back again? Before I had the countdown.

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OK, I just put in the DaisyDisk code and now it's back to the countdown

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YAY Macheist is back, i've been waiting for this What will the purple blob be? Thanks for the clues.

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Thank you for your explanation, I was already wondering how the people on twitter got this.

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Thanks MH, figured out what those Flashes meant. MH works best with Safari!!

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How do I actually get Daisy Disk? I've entered the coordinates, tweeted, but I don't see a link, nothing in my loot, no mention of an email with license, etc. Thanks, I feel dense!

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Anything is possible, very few things actually happen.

I have to correct the times the countdown will result in. Reason being, I used a conversion table that didn't take the switch to Standard time from Daylight Savings Time into account yet. In Europe (where I am) that switch took place a little while ago, whereas it apparently took place in the U.S. just last night. Sorry for the confusion (original post corrected). So here you go:

MacHeist Countdown to Impact times

Nov. 5, 2009 19:00 Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Nov. 5, 2009 18:00 Central Standard Time (CST)
Nov. 5, 2009 17:00 Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Nov. 5, 2009 16:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST)
Nov. 5, 2009 15:00 Yukon Time (Alaska)
Nov. 5, 2009 14:00 Hawaii Standard Time (HST)
Nov. 6, 2009 00:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
Nov. 6, 2009 01:00 Central European Time (CET)

Looks like they fixed the Tweet for a treat link.    It's working for me now.

Cool explanation of the beginng of this mission.

I can not use Safari, but, latest Foxfire beta works fine so far!

What will happen upon impact? I guess we shall have to wait and see, since nothing seems to do anything on the page at this moment.

Just a note to say that on Leopard (10.5.8), I could not get the site to work in Safari 4.0.3 or in Firefox 3.5.3.  I saw a comment that someone got it to work in Opera, and so I downloaded that and Omniweb.  I tried Omniweb (5.10.1) first, and could finally see the whole thing.  Once I saw that page as it was meant to be seen, the puzzle became MUCH easier!

It's a little weird that OmniWeb works where Safari didn't, as OmniWeb is supposed to be using the WebKit engine that's included with Safari 4.0.3.  Maybe things are different on Snow Leopard, as I know HTML 5 works on Snow Leopard but not Leopard.

It's also a little disappointing that MacHeist apparently failed to test their web pages in anything other than whatever it is that they're using.  They can't just assume that EVERYONE is automatically on Snow Leopard with version X of browser Y.  That's really frustrating.

At the VERY LEAST, a little notice somewhere obvious that says "Best viewed with ...." or something.  I wouldn't have minded downloading another browser if I hadn't have had to waste 20 minutes with a improperly rendered page.  But how was I supposed to know it was improperly rendered?  It's going to be a LONG MacHeist if the MH team continues to break the browser.

So, a word to those with browser issues: try Opera or OmniWeb if you're not seeing the zoom in and out buttons.  And a word to the directorate: do some friggin' cross-browser checking!

Go back to the cosmic lens window and click the new button "Tweet for a treat" to download the software.

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Everything works perfectly on 10.6 and Safari. Nice to be back with a new heist.

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Cool!  Unfortunately this heist crashes safari big time.  I am running latest Safari in 10.6.1

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I'm so excited

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The official word in MH3 was that the puzzles are designed for the latest version of Safari on Mac OS X. The puzzles *should* work in Firefox, but if not, try Safari. Makes sense really, as everybody has it. (Unless they're running Panther, in which case MacHeist not working is the least of their troubles.) I doubt this will have changed this time around, but maybe the directorate will correct me…?

(Also worth noting is that many Mac OS X WebKit browsers use the same engine as Safari, so it's a win there.)

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Glad to see activity once again on MacHeist, always fun!

back again, after another year. Nice little foreplay from MH! looking forward to the next little (or big) heist!!

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Urgh. Why did they note make it possible to control with the arrow keys?

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Great job on the explanation davedelong

I did try it in Safari.  First, in fact.  When that didn't work I tried Firefox.  When that didn't work I went to downloading other browsers.  I don't mind having Opera and OmniWeb on my system, but I did waste a significant bit of time playing around with what I saw on the screen, which was incomplete and crippled...but I didn't know that!  How was I to know?  That's what I'm saying.  If they're going to require certain browsers and OS's, then there should be a better detection system in place.  And it's really weird that some people are reporting that Firefox worked for them and other are reporting that it doesn't.  I say that points to some pretty shoddy scripting, and little-to-no cross-browser testing.  So shame on Phil Ryu (or whoever it is that actually builds the web sites).

That's what I was saying is a little weird: why does OmniWeb work when Safari didn't?  It says right on the OmniWeb page that it uses the same version of WebKit as Safari 4.0.3, which is the version that I have.

Anyone else notice the new distant flickering object in the viewfinder?

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I don't understand, I typed in the coordinates, tweeted, and went back to the macheist webpage, and i don't see a license or link or serial number anywhere...

And no + or - buttons now! Where's Bruce when you really need him?

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ah... never mind, I kept reloading and it randomly worked, it might be a problem with safari

Still says 28 days for me, but the flashing thing is getting bigger...

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Well, we are dealing with Flash here…so if in doubt, blame Adobe.

Nice find. It seems to be getting bigger…or maybe that's my imagination.

I got daisy disk.  I tweeted.  I got nothing.  Well, nothing other than Daisy Disk (which is, in fairness, a pretty cool something).  But I thought I'd get something else as well by tweeting.  Greedy?  Not me.

I suppose I should really use my Twitter account for something other than Macheist.

I had the same problem in Safari, but FireFox handled it just fine. What version of FireFox are you running?

I'm using FireFox 3.5.4 in Mac OS X 10.6.1.

Hope this helps

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err... nothing posted so far qualifies as code.  "code" is not a general adjective used by the directorate, but a noun.  in other words, if i were to write a quick C function to illustrate the numbering system, this C code would not violate their rules in any manner (someone correct me if i'm wrong) - BUT if i were to copy and paste THEIR code into a forum post, showing THEIR implementation, that would be different.  that would be a Bad Thing.

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I dunno man, web browsers are a big mess. It's not as simple as "if firefox do this, if safari do this". Detecting the browser is easy, implementing the same effect in both is not. You bring up that people with identical browsers are getting different results, that just illuminates how tricky this stuff is to test. I can't say I know a lot about web development but I know enough that it's pretty difficult. "Phil Ryu (or whoever it is that actually builds the web sites)" has done a pretty awesome job and creating an immersive, fun environment using only browsers and their small amount of shared standards.

strange, i didnt see any issue at all with this site in safari...

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"Digits only go from 0-9.  However, you can't just not flash in order to represent a 0, so the numbers are all off by 1.  In other words:
1 flash = 0
2 flashes = 1
3 flashes = 2
etc"

Never would have gotten the offset by 1 thing. Thanks for that.

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Well, actually, we are not seeing any Flash.  Flash has been used extremely minimally in MacHeist.  You can always tell by right-clicking on area of the web page in question.  If you see your normal browser's context menu, then it's not Flash.  If you see a menu that has, at the least, "Settings..." and "About Adobe Flash Player XX..." then it's Flash.  MacHeist has, to their JavaScripting credit, stuck primarily with non-Flash implementation of some pretty cool stuff.

In fact, I would suspect that using Flash would have alleviated all of these crazy incompatibilities.  Flash tends to work pretty consistently across all browsers and platforms.  When Flash doesn't work (and it's quite often that it doesn't work — I hope I'm not sounding like a Flash fanboy), it's usually going to not work pretty consistently across all browsers and platforms.

And even if it were Flash, and did not work, it would still be MacHeist's responsibility, not the makers of the technology with which they choose to deliver.  If it were Flash, I'd still say shame on them, not shame on Adobe.  As it is, it's not Flash and "plain old" HTML/CSS/JavaScript, yet we don't blame the browser makers.  It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.

In fact, MacHeist is using MooTools on the page in question (I checked the source code after completing the puzzle, just to be clear), which makes it pretty darn easy to accomplish similar things across most modern browsers (and Flash makes it even easier, but let's not get into that quagmire).  I'm not even suggesting that we take Internet Explorer into account.  Given than they have a pretty good track record up 'till now, they are using a JavaScript library that equalizes many browser differences, and that we're talking about an up-to-date version of Safari and Firefox, the two most popular browsers on the Mac, I'm pretty darn surprised that I had issues, and that we're hearing several reports of browser problems.  And, it's disappointing.  I'm worried that MacHeist will continue to turn out shoddy web sites, making the entire Heist an extremely trying process.

Now, I like free, non-upgradeable shareware as much as the next guy, don't get me wrong.  I'm mostly concerned about this as a sign of things to come.

OK, at this point I need to apologize for my long-winded nature.  I haven't caught up with the brevity that the Internet, Twitter, and texting had foisted upon us.

Wrong.  Reload the page.  Quickly (before you see the timer appear) right-click on the two lights under "Cosmic Radiation Levels".  There.  Flash.  If you wait until the timer appears, the flash element is obscured and right-clicking doesn't work, and you have to dig deeper to get to it.

I first noticed the Flash element because I use Click2Flash. 

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daisy disk is wiered...

It's too bad the tweet has the coordinates in it.  I didn't even realize there was a puzzle to solve until I had solved it.

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May be late on this but I saw no problems in Safari.  Could be that it is fixed now. Thanks for the direction. I had the original number but thought I was on a false road when the coordinates wouldn't go past 200.

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Thanks for the great explanation...

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So excited Couldn't get it to load in Google Chrome.  Tried Firefox 3.5.3 and it works like a charm.

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Had problems loading the whole page too and Safari crashed two times. Then, after clearing the Cache once, everything was fine

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i can't wait anymore........

The ticker goes to 7:00pm et on Thursday... Wonder what that could mean?