The Ballot -- The Front SideThis is a copy of the resulting ballot. Voting happens during lunch on the same day as the Hack Show, and results get announced at that evening's banquet.
We had ninety three hacks entered in this year's MacHax(TM) MacHack Best Hack Contest, a mind-numbing six hour event!
Once again, we'd like to thank everyone who entered for the fun, excitement, and hacks!
You can purchase your very own CD with most of these hacks at http://www.machack.com
15th Annual MacHax(TM) MacHack Best Hack Contest
The Ballot -- The Front Side
There is also a Back side (that would be over on the other side of this page).
Check up to five hacks.
| Name | Authors | Short Description | Yoot |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mentat | Scott Ziegler | Stores name/value pairs in database | |
| Polyhedra | Scott Ziegler | RPG dice roller | |
| SpellCompositor-Arcana | Scott Ziegler | AD&D spell archiving program | |
| Hackable AirPort Network Seeker | Daniel Fox | Speaks when it finds Airport networks | Yes |
| StageDance | Dylan Matthews | Shows dancing hamsters movie | Yes |
| PigLatin | Dylan Matthews | Translates english to pig latin | Yes |
| Juggler | Philip Smith | Program that juggles apples | Yes |
| NQCYA | Ray Cote | Decompile output of NQC | |
| AquaWriter | Eli Lakritz | A word processor with aqua colors | Yes |
| Confirmania | Chris Page | Adds confirmation alerts to all apps. | |
| Bouncicon | Chris Page | OSX-style bouncing icons | |
| Crypt-oh | Mark Darling | System-wide encryption | |
| BOFH | David Ross | Bastardizes your terminal | Yes |
| Talking Steve | Mike Cohen | Puts Steve Jobs on desktop | |
| iTunes Remote | P. D. Magnus & Dave Baum & Mike Schmider | iTunes remote control | |
| Pied Piper | Zander Fumas 13-Y & Rafi Spies 13-Y | Desktop Gravity | Yes |
| DarkWaver | Tyson Tate 16-Y | Dynamically created ambient sounds | Yes |
| A Big Smooch | Rachel Green 9.5-Y | Kilroy throwing a kiss | Yes |
| PseudoDoc | Matt Morse | Customizes reference doc | |
| MADLIB from Hell | Max Futterman 16-Y | An annoying MADLIB | Yes |
| icons | Hunter Green 15-Y | Icons done for people’s projects | Yes |
| Soundsets | Hunter Green 15-Y | Ares and Brickles soundsets | Yes |
| DSPanic | Louis Gerbarg | Makes kernel panics more Mac-like | |
| King of Swing | John Blatz 19-Y & Joshua Paul 18-Y | Generates a blues MIDI from a text file | Yes |
| OurHack | Sam Lundin 15-Y & Mike Meng 15-Y | Change the names of icons of your files | Yes |
| Hack most likely to cause injury | Robert Rau & Leslie Parisek | Man-eating door | |
| Apple Turnover | Mac Murrett & Allon Stern | Rotates the screen | |
| Network Alias | Troy Benjegerdes & Allon Stern | Impersonate a router. | |
| iBook Turbo Switch | Troy Benjegerdes | iBook with switchable clock speed | |
| Email server | David Shayer & Jeffrey Czerniak | Steals email psaswords over the net | |
| Tricycle | Chris Atwood 18-Y & Lucius Kwok & Allen Stern | Rack-and-pinion robot with 3 wheels | |
| PalmFinder 2 | Lucius Kwok | MacOS emulator for PalmOS | |
| More Prefs | Adam Tabak 12-Y | Changes normally inaccessable prefs | Yes |
| AquaShade | Nicholas Riley & Avi Drissman | A Windowshade for the 21st century | |
| TiVo for QuickTime TV | Richard Kiss | TiVo for QuickTime TV | |
| Chia Windows X | Mark Johns-Y17 & Justin Lee-Y17 & Charles Melby-Thompson-Y17 | Expanding windows in OSX | Yes |
| Beer Goggles | Terry Bird & Darrin Cordani | Makes people look pretty on live video | |
| Not Enough Secrets | Benjamin Chess 19-Y | Add secret about box to OSX | Yes |
| musicPrompter | Paul Scandariato 16-Y | Bouncing ball music prompting | Yes |
| MrMacintosh | Wolf Rentzsch | Steve Jobs LSD Dream | |
| Heap Peek | Paul Bruneau | Displays pixel map of running apps | |
| Silly String | Barry Semo | Lets you customize system strings | |
| Love @ First Byte | Carol Goodell | Boy and Girl meet at MacHack | |
| Satan Vs. Little Red Riding Hood | Eli Gold-Y14 & Jonathan Hirschberger-Y13 | Story on the desktop with folders | Yes |
| Pro Mousing | Joshua Shaffer 18-Y | Clickless computing | Yes |
| Light Sleeper | Joshua Shaffer 18-Y & Boyd Burkhardt & Jon Gotow & Sam Caughron | Sleep alteration | |
| Crrrhaaack | Jon Gotow | Resizes your screen | |
| ITunes Dock Dance Plugin | Bertrand Landy-Hetu | Makes the Dock Dance | |
| ASCII Shop | Hollin Wilkins | Takeoff on Photoshop | Yes |
| HFS- | Jesse Donaldson | Mount Mac Volume under Palm OS |
| ImageToHTML | Toby Rush | Converts an image to HTML | |
| X-Menu 2.0 | Steve Kalkwarf & Jim Correia | Apple menu in middle of menu bar. | |
| Unprotected Memory | Steve Kalkwarf & Jim Correia | Eliminates Memory Protection. | |
| Spear Britney | George Warner | Stop Britney Tunes from Playing | |
| Genuis Bar | Joshua Juran | Helpful Messages in the Menu Bar | |
| TEPeste | Joshua Juran | Occasionally interrupts Pasting with Strange Message | |
| TECalc | Joshua Juran | Calculates an arthimetic expression in TextEdit | |
| pixelZone | Olof Hellman | Displays Graphics in ZoneRanger | |
| Useful Hack | Max Futterman | Useful During the Show | Yes |
| Throb-o-matic | Chris Nebel | Gratuitous window manipulation | |
| DFA Doubler | Miro Jurisic | Kills Disk Check Delay | |
| MacCleo The Psychic | Eric Slosser | Mind Reading Program | |
| iWake | Justin Christie -Y 13 & Paul Scandariato -Y 16 | Implements a Wakeable Items Folder | Yes |
| FidoPage | Paul Schreiber -Y 22 | Page your cell phone. | Yes |
| Buzzey | Richard Thalman -Y 7 | Button Beeps & QuickTime Movie | Yes |
| Hollywood Login | Mark Altenberg & Jeff Ganyard | Hollywood Login Demo | |
| HelloTree | Donn Denman | Draws graphical tree | |
| APLocation | Ned Holbrook & Eric Gundrum | Location Manager Module for AirPort | |
| PalmDock | Rob Tsuk & Nevin Liber & Sanford Selznic | OS X Dock on the Palm | |
| 99 bottles | Philippe Casgrain | Singing Distributed Network Computing | |
| F1 Hack | Mark Malson | Easy way to get help from Metrowerks | |
| Cat Juggler | Phil Smith -Y 15 | Juggles, but with Cats | Yes |
| Robot Transfer Protocol | Simon Fraser & Ben Erwin | Data Transfer via Lego Robot | |
| iTunes (Hacked) | Andy Furnas -Y 13 | Make iTunes Scriptable! | Yes |
| Throbber | Dick Furnos | Causes selected icons in Finder X to throb | |
| Mac OS X Patching Documentation Hack | Paul Oppenheim-Y20 & Ben Chess-Y18 | How to patch Mac OS X | Yes |
| GhostFinder | Lisa Lippincott | Clears up window clutter | |
| MacHack 2001 iDVD | Lynda Botez & Brian Duck | MacHack Memoirs | |
| Dr. Cheshire’s Commermorative PPPoE Server | Duane Murphy & Eric Gundrum | PPPoE Server | |
| AirPort Radar | Mike Neil & Eric Traut | Find your location | |
| Upping the Stakes | Adam Engst | Determining hotel file system | |
| GrowBoxDock | Jorg Brown | Allows you to use grow boxes under the Dock | |
| The Weakest Link | Eric Shapiro & Jeffrey Czerniak-Y18 & Daniel Luke-Y20 & Peter Sichel | DNS Spoofer | |
| FireWire Macsbug | Ed Wynne | Timbuktu for MacsBug via FireWire | |
| Eudora Stats Server | Adam Engst & Leonard Rosenthal & Richard Ford | Gather statistics from Eudora | |
| AntiLib | Chris Nebel | MADLIB Blocker | |
| CSFinalHack | Ammon Skidmore | Makes control strip act like menu bar | |
| Windows XP | Chris Evans | It’s the Windows Experience | |
| Phase Shift X | Ed Wynne | ||
| CDaemon | Shawn Platkus | ||
| Mirrored | Victor Tan | ||
| Paper Writer | Thomas Cook | ||
| Andy and Olaf | Andy Ihnatko |
15th Annual MacHax(TM) MacHack Best Hack Contest
The Ballot -- The Back Side
There is also a Front side (that would be over on the other side of this page).
Check up to five hacks.