I recently posted about how Fluid allowed me to get around the annoying need to restart Safari and lose all my tabs when I wanted to listen to WXRT on my speaker’s using Rogue Amoeba’s awesome Airfoil software.

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An even simpler answer existed in the pesky dialog box asking me to restart Safari had I only read the fine print.  Rogue Amoeba clearly anticipated my need and shipped the solution with Airfoil: Instant Hijack.  It can be installed from the dialog box or the Install Extras… menu option within Airfoil.  After a system restart I was good to go.

Instant Hijack is certainly simpler than Fluid but I wanted to make sure I gave credit to the Rogue Amoeba gang for putting out a solid product which had the answer built right in.  However, the Fluid approach certainly wasn’t difficult and I’m glad I know about it now.

Some readers who aren’t Airfoil users may recall hearing about Instant Hijack before.  When Apple released Security Update 2008-002 some people had issues with ssh no longer working which was tied back to Instant Hijack.  Of course the Rogue Amoeba guys had an immediate fix.  You can read more about exactly what happened on their blog.

November 19th, 2008 | apple