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  "title": "Tiger and .app file extensions",
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  "html": "<p>From the <a href=\"http://daringfireball.net/misc/2005/04/tiger_details\">Tiger Details list on Daring Fireball</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I can't stand seeing these insipid \".app\" extensions everywhere, but I don't want to turn off the \"Show all file extensions\" preferences because I do want to see the rest of them.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>  Actually, I think this change toward consistency might be a good idea, if only in an effort to help protect people from <a href=\"http://www.atomicbird.com/node/view/28\">trojan applications hiding as applications</a> whose extensions would otherwise be hidden.  But, seems like a place where a third-party app can step in for people who know what they're getting into.</p>\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090558\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=8bcf295bb2e23d6ee0d80710023f2b66&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\">Anonymous</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221090558\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-05-01T19:14:37\">2005-05-01T19:14:37</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\">Ok, how about not showing the .app extension in the\nApplications folder only, and show it everywhere else, \nand make it and preference to not show it in Applications.</div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "From the [Tiger Details list on Daring Fireball][td]:\r\n\r\n  > I can't stand seeing these insipid \".app\" extensions everywhere, but I don't want to turn off the \"Show all file extensions\" preferences because I do want to see the rest of them.\r\n\r\n  Actually, I think this change toward consistency might be a good idea, if only in an effort to help protect people from [trojan applications hiding as applications][troj] whose extensions would otherwise be hidden.  But, seems like a place where a third-party app can step in for people who know what they're getting into.\r\n\r\n[troj]: http://www.atomicbird.com/node/view/28\r\n[td]: http://daringfireball.net/misc/2005/04/tiger_details\r\n\r\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\r\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\r\n            \r\n        <ul class=\"comments\">\r\n            \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221090558\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=8bcf295bb2e23d6ee0d80710023f2b66&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"\">Anonymous</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221090558\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-05-01T19:14:37\">2005-05-01T19:14:37</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\">Ok, how about not showing the .app extension in the\r\nApplications folder only, and show it everywhere else, \r\nand make it and preference to not show it in Applications.</div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        </ul>\r\n    \r\n        </div>\r\n    ",
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