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I'll start. There is purple stuff (I don't know if that matters) at the coordinates 76.6, 103.3

-Z

edit: yelling about cheating

The patterns of the blinking of the "abnormal" light gives:
2 6 2 8 (long pause) 2 8 5 5 (long pause) (repeat)

I've tried entering "26.28" and "262.8" in the first box; neither works (the first rounds it down, the second gets clipped to 200 degrees).

Flashing might be morse code.

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The delta for each axis when pressing the d-pad is different.
Left/Right - 2.7
Up/Down - 3.8

That's what I'm getting out of the sounds too. I was originally thinking IP address, but 262.8.285.5 isn't a valid one. There's a little short pause sound where those 2  periods are.

Phone, perhaps?

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Two different sounds are used for the blinking light. coded as h for the one with the higher frequency and l for the lower frequency, - for long pause, the pattern is:

hl hlhhllhl hlhhl hlhhl - hl hlhhll hl hlhhllhl -

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Safari won't load the entire image. Then it crashed Safari. And Firefox isn't fairing any better.

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We think we have figured out that the lights give the coordinates. They give 3 numbers then make a odd scratch noise then one more number (hence coordinates). We scrolled through the whole picture and didn"t see anything abnormal

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I can't see the whole thing.  The buttons get cut off at the bottom and I can't see the zoom buttons.

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Explanation:  The yellow lights flash with these counts:

2628 2855

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

Therefore, you get this:
1517 1744

The coordinate system only accepts input with one decimal point, with each coordinate being less than 200.  The logical division of the numbers is therefor:  151.7, 174.4.

Enter those coordinates and claim DaisyDisk as a prize.

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Same here.

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Confirmed on the countdown.  But what's up with the 'tweet for a treat' link that takes me to:  h t t p://twitter.com/11513887835634706393

Nice explanation. Sad it was over so fast.

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Indeed - thanks for this info.  The answer, being tweeted out, was found before I even got as far as counting everything out!

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Sorry for the caps, but the directorate has already warned us about this. Using code to solve a heist doesn't count as solving it, but CHEATING...

I agree... that was a brilliant explanation. Thanks!

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Thank you for getting that! I'd gone off down a morse code rabbit hole, despite the fact there were only pairs of sounds and not 3 (a long dash is 3 counts), and was getting complete gibberish, but then again gibberish has served us well in the past

Nice little break for the evening. Now it will undoubtedly be too long until the next one. I'm surprised we're seeing signs of life so early this year!

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I wish the dang image would just load all the way!

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Awesome! thanks for the guide davedelong! Already paid for daisydisk because its such an amazing app! glad its a prize here! Can't wait for the rest of MacHeist!

Nice one ladies and gentlemen! So I wonder what happens in 5 days, eh? Let the seemingly endless speculation begin. :-)

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same problem with me. the images won't load in safari at all have no idea what's happening

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so we have just to wait 5 days? THere's nothing we can do? :S

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Thanks for the Answer guys, would never have got it on my own

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I'm quite sad that neither Firefox nor Safari were happy to fully load things and my iPhone didn't like the flash :-( Bad browser days happen though. Eventually sorted it.

As a geek I have to ask - Does anyone know what wavelength the images are? The format (degrees, degrees) is the same as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. I was comparing SDSS SkyServer images with the MacHeist images and it's clear they are the same sky bits, but different wavelengths.

I have my Daisy Disk and I'm happy, but still curious.

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Chrome on Mac seemed to handle this heist best.  It looked really bad and didn't load well in Safari.

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Thanks for the info

I used Firefox and had no problems with images loading

Perhaps problem was fixed?

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kelekona, you click on the tweet for a treat link, then it should take you to your own Twitter page where it has a tweet filled in ready for you to send out. When you do (by clicking Update), go back to the macheist page and now you have a link for the license and download of Daisy Disk.

And thank you so much to davedelong for the detailed explanation!

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me too... that was too complicated for me...

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Great! I'm very glad it started again and am also very happy about the explanation I found. I love those riddles but am sometimes simply unable to figure them out. Thanks!

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I'm still trying to solve it in Safari, I'm getting LOTS of crashes, in the end I just typed the answer that I already knew from Twitter and it crashed again... Over to Firefox I guess.

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i'm so happy that it is starting again.... but did it work?

I dont got daisy disk?!

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The ONLY browser this page displays well on is iCab.  The flash is screwed up on all other major browsers.  Man, this is for Mac users so it should at least display correctly in Safari!   Check the code.

Nice! That was really fast

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For everyone who has problems loading the graphics in the new page there might be a solution. I used a very fast connected squid proxy on the net to load the graphics for me and got them without problems.

So if you get only half graphics you could try to search an open proxy out there (Maybe Tor?) and route your browser for the game to this. (Sorry but I can't open my proxy for everyone but there are some open proxies. Maybe they are fast enough.)

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