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READ BEFORE POSTING - Status of Heists and apps (spoiler free)
This is an attempt to stop multiple threads and questions regarding the heists. Please read before posting something that may have already been covered. Current heists will remain spoiler free here with a link to the spoiler thread.
HEIST 0.5: The Hunt for Hubert - over
The hunt for Hubert began prior to the opening of MacHeist. It involved finding a curious little monkey named Hubert hidden in a trail of various websites, each one linking to the next.
This was intended as a buildup to MH and as a taste for those that were not initially invited to this wonderful world of heisting. The prize at the end was a copy of American History Lux which is still available via the first memo.
This heist is still possible to complete although not using all of the original steps.
Note: as of April '07, the heist memos are no longer viewable.
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Prize: American History Lux
HEIST 1: Apple Internal Hack - over
The first official heist involved sneaking your way into the "Apple Internal" site and figuring out a way to get both pics and specs for the upcoming Apple iPhone. It began with an encoded message that gave you a free copy of the Notepad widget. Notepad is still available and a full translated spoiler can be found here.
You can read about all of the steps involved by checking out the "Official Mission #1 Thread".
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Prizes: Chat Transcript Manager, Assignment Planner, Soulver, Notepad
HEIST 1.5: Split Personalities - over
The mini-heist between 1 and 2 involved the two MH rss feeds. Each feed had half of a complete message. The clues from this eventually led you to a code for the safe that got a free copy of QuickScale. For the full details check out the Mini-Heist thread.
The prize is no longer available.
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Prizes: QuickScale
(Notepad and American History Lux, if you didn't already have them)
HEIST 2: The Edge - over
A gentleman going by "The Edge" that that has the worst website in history apparently "cracked" some Mac apps and left us clues leading to the unlocked builds. After following misspelled words, some morse code and a trip around the (Google) earth you get to blow up a balloon of a funky image.
You can see all of the steps involved here.
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Prizes: Cha-Ching, 1Passwd, $2.00 Discount
HEIST 2.5: Stuck In The Amazon - on now
The official memo is Here
The official backroom topic is Here
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Prizes: Will be listed as links when I know it's over.
HEIST 3: Where's Lisa? - over
Starting off with some pictures that when translated led you on a merry chase Heist 3 was a great one. After pulsing numbers, going backwards (in more ways than one), and much more you get to see red in a brand new way. Now the rescue mission is on for the Directorate.
The official backroom topic is here.
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Prizes: iPulse, DrawIt, $2.00 Discount
HEIST 3.5: Alice in Wonderland - on now
The official memo is here.
The official backroom topic is here.
The official walkthrough topic is here.
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Prizes: Will be listed as links when I know it's over.
HEIST 4: MacUpdate vs. macZOT - over
Hack into MacZOT and send bitchy emails in the name of Brian Ball.
The official memo is here.
The official backroom topic is here.
The official walkthrough topic is here.
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Prizes: Will be listed as links when I know it's over.
HEIST 5: Puzzle - over
Go to various sites to recover puzzle pieces. Read the walkthrough for more info.
The official backroom topic is here.
The official walkthrough topic is here.
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Prizes: Will be listed as links when I know it's over.
HEIST 5.5: Do you dream in color? - on now
Riddles, colors, and resistance.
The official backroom topic is here.
Gentle guide available here.
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Prizes: Will be listed as links when I know it's over.
That's it for now. If you think I need to add something to this please PM or e-mail me. If you give me details (links to "official" threads or a synopsis similar to mine) I'll credit you in this post and you'll have my gratitude 
(not much I know but I can hope).
So far Nollid and shadownight have helped quite a bit with this when I've been too slow. Thanks a lot fellows!!!
"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
November 24, 2006 7:17 pm
Ænima: Take a Bow Sir... You have set things straight for the newbies... Well Done!
And a hardy Thank You and Shout Out to you as well for I feel I speak for all the otehr Mac Heads here that this type of stickie was needed.
Been Drinking the Mac KoolAid since 1984
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November 24, 2006 7:45 pm
How am I going to build up my post count now when I don't have to set newbies straight anymore?
Let's try this...
November 24, 2006 8:26 pm
Thanks for all the support! If any of you think of something to make this sticky better please let me know either by PM or just by posting it here.
"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
November 24, 2006 11:08 pm
@ Nollid07 - Hmm, where did Hubert start at? I don't remember and couldn't find it by searching. I see that you can still do it fully starting at whoishubert.com but from there it's only like 5 sites. I swear there was a lot more than that. A few other people have also said that the trail was broken.
Anyway, I don't want this turning into a Hubert discussion so if someone has the FULL list of following Hubert please PM me the info. If it's still completely doable I'll change the sticky.
"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
November 25, 2006 12:14 am
It's great that someone is trying to stop multiple threads about past heists...thanks much Ænima!
It's sad how theAmazon is slowly falling apart.
I thought Phill died...
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November 25, 2006 12:20 am
Ænima wrote:
@ Nollid07 - Hmm, where did Hubert start at? I don't remember and couldn't find it by searching. I see that you can still do it fully starting at whoishubert.com but from there it's only like 5 sites. I swear there was a lot more than that. A few other people have also said that the trail was broken.
oh.. I thought it started at whoishubert, but now that I think about it, you're right.
Sweet.
November 25, 2006 12:56 am
wph wrote:
Now I have to decide between wading through all 24 pages of the zotadmin thread, or waiting to check for the synopsis here.
It's only 12 pages for me, I set MH to display 50 posts per page 
That is an extremely long thread though and a lot of it is just people posting things that others already found.
I've taken to just reading the most recent couple to see if it sounds like anything new has happened. Also the OP is trying to keep the first post updated.
"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
November 25, 2006 5:18 am
Ænima wrote:
@ Nollid07 - Hmm, where did Hubert start at?
As I recall, it started here: http://www.tuaw.com/2006/11/03/who-is-hubert/
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November 25, 2006 11:06 pm
jakej720 wrote:
Ænima wrote:@ Nollid07 - Hmm, where did Hubert start at?
As I recall, it started here: http://www.tuaw.com/2006/11/03/who-is-hubert/
Was there any real announcement? I think they just put it up, and people started all sorts of different places, leading to whoishubert.com and eventually the end.
November 25, 2006 11:41 pm
yeh i contacted the guy who made hubert and he said he was first posted on the tuaw site, there are two versions of hubert. The one on http://www.whoishubert.com
and number 2 is on http://www.whoishubert.com/donttouchme
this is just too much . . .
November 25, 2006 11:41 pm
this is a very nicely organized list of the heists. i tried to see if i could login anonymously to ftp.whoishubert.com to see what there was there, and i got a 530 no anonymouss login error. but this means the server does exist, so if someone who really knows about this sort of thing could look into it...
-D
November 26, 2006 3:09 am
sushiman wrote:
this is a very nicely organized list of the heists. i tried to see if i could login anonymously to ftp.whoishubert.com to see what there was there, and i got a 530 no anonymouss login error. but this means the server does exist, so if someone who really knows about this sort of thing could look into it...
There are plenty of threads about the whoishubert site, but I doubt it'll be used in the future. Every heist has had it's own crop of new sites just for the week.
November 26, 2006 3:52 am
thanks for clearing up, great job
November 26, 2006 7:07 pm
thanks for the synopsis. i was getting worried that i was totally lost. at least i am not alone.
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November 26, 2006 9:31 pm
Ænima wrote:
Heist 2.5 ? - Unknown - on now?
No one knows for sure what this is yet. To see what's been discovered so far check out the zotadmin thread (spoilers). UPDATE: Apparently the Hubert blogging thing is not directly related to MH. I'm still leaving this here for those that are interested until an official 2.5 is announced.
That's it for now. If you think I need to add something to this please mention it here.
2.5 is on... i just finished the wiki page...
Go GREEN!
November 28, 2006 7:15 pm
Thanks Nollid, now that I've done the new one I'll go ahead and edit this a little more. I don't go to the backroom during heists so I can't really update 'til I'm done. If this happens again I'd appreciate you doing the same thing.
"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
November 29, 2006 12:57 am
Is the notepad thing really part of Heist 1? I don't think it's necessary to complete Heist 1. Plus, it wasn't in the mission briefing. Was it necessary?
ORANGE 
November 29, 2006 2:20 am
My impression was that the Hubert trail started at WhoIsHubert.com (to which you were led by TUAW) and wound it's way through a number of sites. The trail is still doable, though not in its original form.
The current trail goes: WhoIsHubert -> MDA -> Xeric -> WidgetMachine -> EmbraceWare -> PhillRyu -> WhoIsHubert (Don't Touch Me version)
A few of the pieces I know to be removed are: Potion Factory, iUseThis, and Unsanity. There are a few more missing pieces, but what they are currently escapes me.
BTW - great thread AEnima!
-- epochblue rolls with a 15" 1.67Ghz PowerBook G4, a 20GB 4G iPod, and a 2G shuffle.
November 29, 2006 2:39 pm
ew. i don't like the box view. but hey i'm just nitpicking
i check back here so often so thank youuu!
and thanks for tracing it out as well, epochblue
rocks & socks
December 7, 2006 4:21 am
Almost fully updated with a bit "better" format. I'll probably finish when I get back from the bar if another mod doesn't beat me to it. I'm pretty happy with the new look though.
I also changed it to say please PM or e-mail me if you'd like to contribute an update or a new heist. I'll credit you in the post if you include details (links to official threads and/or a synopsis like the ones I've done) so I don't have to look them up . That would be awesome.
"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
December 9, 2006 2:16 am
Is this list correct? What is missing? What is different? Thank you.
Sorry, I'm erasing this list since the title of the thread says spoiler free. I consider the apps for ongoing heists to be a spoiler.
- Ænima
December 9, 2006 3:09 pm
your apps for heist 4 are incorrect. The real ones are
Edit: Thanks for the info, I appreciate it. I'm editing this post to take out the spoiler. Since the title says spoiler free I need to keep it that way. If you want to it would be awesome if you could just e-mail or PM me things like this in the future. Thanks again for the correction.
- Ænima
December 9, 2006 9:20 pm
Hey folks, I deleted a few posts in this thread and edited a couple others. If you have questions about ongoing heists please ask them in a different thread. This one specifically says spoiler free and I want to keep it that way. Hope no one is upset if I deleted one of their posts. I greatly appreciate the interest everyone has shown here.
If you have some info to add that I'm missing please e-mail or PM me if possible. I would greatly appreciate it. Posting the info here may be a spoiler depending on what you say and I might have to delete or edit it (see the post above this one for an example).
"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
December 9, 2006 9:39 pm
Thanks for the help here. I've got 17 apps after completing various heists. Actually, I have apps that number up to 17. What is curious is I don't have app #9, which I read elsewhere is Alarm Clock Pro. Anyone know why I don't have that one? I have every other numbered app up to 17.... (which means I've done all the major heists through #5 and I believe all the official mini ones as of December 10th)
Maybe the world is meaningless and nothing matters in the end.
But the fact that nothing matters also doesn't matter.
December 10, 2006 10:58 pm