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By Frank on Nov 6, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Woops, looks like 10.6.2 won’t kill support for the Atom chip after all. All you netbook hackintosh users can now breath a sigh of relief. We reported a few days ago that the latest developer build of Leopard had support for the Atom chipset removed. None of the Apple hardware uses the Atom chip so [...]
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By Frank on Oct 24, 2009 · 1 Comment
Remember all of the hype behind ZFS for OS X? Remember how everyone was talking about how great it would be to add such a powerful and robust file system for the Mac? Something to replace the aging and outdated HFS+. Well you can forget about ZFS. Apple has decided to shut down the project. [...]
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By Frank on Oct 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment
With Windows 7 officially released, will you be getting up early to purchase your copy? It has been a long time coming (I really don’t count Vista as a usable operating system), a stable a somewhat decent OS from Microsoft. Let’s be honest, the form and function of the new OS from the boys at [...]
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By Frank on Oct 6, 2009 · 44 Comments
Following Linux Distros That Don’t Suck from earlier this year here is a comprehensive list of, you guessed it, more Linux Distros that don’t suck. Some of these are more obscure lesser known distros that are quite powerful and very useful. Some of these come from personal use some of them came from the great [...]
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By Frank on Oct 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment
VMware rolled out another update today to their uber popular virtualization software for the mac, Fusion. The update, which was officially released yesterday, includes multiple fixes for running Fusion in a 32-bit Snow Leopard environment. Besides the usually assortment of bug fixes the release also includes enhancements for better 3D performance on Macs with Nvidia [...]
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By Frank on Sep 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Is that genius bar annoying the crap out of you? Kill it with secrets. Secrets is a preference pane you add to Leopard that allows you to play around with all sorts of options that Apple never wanted you to play with. Did you know that you can enable an expert mode in Disk Utility [...]
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By Frank on Sep 18, 2008 · 1 Comment
We have covered installing OS X on an Eee PC 701 in the past, but this great guide compiled by the guys over a Wired makes running OS X on the 701′s bigger brother, the 901 and 1000, a breeze. Why would you want to install OS X on an Eee PC? The question your [...]
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By Frank on Sep 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Apple today released the 10.5.5 update to their Leopard OS. The update contains a long list of fixes for the core OS as well as app fixes like iCal, Mail, MobileMe, and Time Machine. Here’s a list of what’s included: General Includes recent Apple security updates. Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling, [...]
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By Frank on Sep 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment
You might hope that you never need it, but if you ever run into a situation where your Mac doesn’t boot all the way to the Finder and you don’t have any boot capable utilities like Das Boot to fix your problem, AppleJack will be your best friend. AppleJack is a single-user-mode tool that is [...]
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By Frank on Jun 4, 2008 · 1 Comment
xMod allows you to tweak all of those hidden settings in Leopard. xMod allows you to tweak everything from Finder to Safari, and if offer various other tools that allow you to tweak such things as the default screenshot behaviour and even check the status of you drive. The interface is a bit clunky but [...]
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By Frank on Feb 12, 2008 · Leave a Comment
The latest release for Mac’s latest OS, Leopard, is now available. The Update fixes a whole slew of bugs and quirks which have been plaguing the OS. After installing 10.5.2 it’s also recommended that users install the 48.9 megabyte Leopard Graphics Update 1.0 to fix some other issues that will speed up you system. While [...]
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By Frank on Jan 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
When Steve Jobs first announced that Apple would be moving to the Intel platform it really didn’t take very long before hackers slapped together a working copy of OS X running on a plain old vanilla box PC. Let’s leap to today. With most of the hackintosh community working out all the kinks and bugs [...]
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By Frank on Jan 22, 2008 · Leave a Comment
I have written a lot about the Asus EEEPC. We even covered that crazy dude who put every possible hardware mod into the thing. I’ve had various flavours of Linux running, Windows, and yes ever Leopard (with a little hackintosh love). When I decided to give Leopard a whirl on my tiny machine I followed [...]
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By Frank on Jan 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Just like was expected the blog-o-sphere went crazy over the Macworld keynote by Steve Jobs. Almost every blog was live-blogging the event, live-blogging the live blogs, and live blogging the live blogging of the live blogging (you get the idea). This is why I wanted to wait until all of the mass hysteria over the [...]
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By Frank on Jan 15, 2008 · Leave a Comment
What is zfs you might ask? It’s a new filesystem that was developed by Sun for the Open Solaris OS. Why should you be excited about it on a Mac? Let’s take a step back first. A while ago there was a rumour that ZFS was going to be included in Leopard. While the CEO [...]
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Windows 7: Will You Upgrade?
By Frank on Oct 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment
With Windows 7 officially released, will you be getting up early to purchase your copy? It has been a long time coming (I really don’t count Vista as a usable operating system), a stable a somewhat decent OS from Microsoft. Let’s be honest, the form and function of the new OS from the boys at [...]
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