Yes, you read the title right. You can download paid Mac App Store apps for free. And the best part is you need not do any account hacking or unethical stuff to crack paid Mac App Store apps. Just some tweaking and you are done with it.
Here is the step by step guide to download Mac App Store paid apps for free:
STEP 1: To run Mac App Store smoothly, make sure that you have updated your system to Snow Leopard 10.6.6.
STEP 2: Login to the new Mac App Store and download Twitter app. Yes, its free.
STEP 3: Now, browse to the Application folder and locate Twitter app.
STEP 4: Once you find it, right click on it and click on Show Package Contents option.
STEP 5: Now, navigate to the Contents folder and copy the contents named as _CodeSignature, _MASReceipt and CodeResources.
STEP 6: We will demonstrate this free apps thing on Angry Birds. In order to download any paid app for free, you need its dmg file. Here is the dmg file for Angry Birds, just download it.
STEP 7: Now run this dmg file and drag the Angry Birds into the Applications folder.
STEP 8: Once you copy it, right click on it and click on Show Package Contents option.
STEP 9: Now, navigate to the Contents folder and delete the contents named as _CodeSignature, _MASReceipt and CodeResources and paste the similar contents that you have copied in Step 5.
Voila! That is how you can download paid Mac App Store apps for free. You can run it this cracked Mac App store app now.
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Hey thats great but as chris says how to get dmg files of other paid apps please help..
Exactly! Even if we can crack it, we must first download it… please help..thank you!
hey thank you very much
um there's something …. there are 2 step 5!
but your way works awesome
thanks alot! but how do you download the dmg files of other apps???