HackinÕ HotlineÕs Prefs by [k]racker box ÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑ About A couple of people have asked me about this so I spent fifteen minutes one Saturday and did something about it. Nuff Õced. What IÕm hacking here is those four stats you see in About Hotline: Bytes Uploaded, Downloaded, etc. Why? Well, I know that after a while if the ration between bytes downloaded and bytes uploaded is huge then Hotline will change your name to Ò[yourname] needs to uploadÓ or something like that. [k[racker box ÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑ The Prefs ItÕs in your Preferences folder. Gee, no kidding? Well, get a data fork editor that supports hex editing and also lets you see the offset/position of bytes. ÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑ What to hack If youÕre a real wuss and wanna just make sure that you never get your name changed to Ò[name] needs to uploadÓ then just set the four bytes starting at address C4 in the prefs to ÒFFFF FFFFÓ. When I say the address I mean the address/offset of the byte in the Hotline Pref's data fork. Bytes Uploaded: This is located in four bytes at the address C4. ItÕs in decimal. Bytes Downloaded: Same as Bytes Uploaded but located at address C8. Chat: Same as Bytes Uploaded but the address is D0. Time Online: If you really wanna edit this youÕll need a time-->hexedecimal converter. Hotline takes the long integer in Date format and calulates the amount of time since 1/1/4 in the long integer. ÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑÑ