January 24th, 2010

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Intrepid Mac: Our New Site

Note: Just to clarify, http://intrepicmac.com is not replacing this site. Rather, it is an additional site in the Daily Blogged network.
We probably should’ve told you dear readers about this awhile ago, but we’ve started a new website called Intrepid Mac. It’s devoted to Apple news and interesting stuff you can do with OS X, and [...]

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February 5th, 2010

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Re: 10 reasons I’ll be passing on the iPad

This is a response to the article “10 reasons I’ll be passing on the iPad,” where Debra Shinder details how the iPad isn’t for her. I’ve criticized Deb before. I read her blog and I’m subscribed to her Win7 News mailing list, and I’ve noticed that whenever she talks about Apple, she somehow gets in [...]

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February 2nd, 2010

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Make Your iPhone/iPod Touch Look Like an iPad

You like the way the iPad looks right? I mean, who doesn’t. Now, imagine you can make your iPhone/iPod look like
that. Yeah, it’s possible. Only bad thing is it requires a jailbreak (I recommend Blackra1n).
Basically, all you need to do is download the following from Cydia:

Winterboard
Simple iPad Theme
MakeItMine
Shrink
ProSwitcher

And then these from the App Store:

NYTimes
Classics
Kindle for [...]

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January 31st, 2010

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A Great Moment in Hackintosh History: Running OS X on a Phone

No, not iPhone OS. I’m talking full-fledged OS X, 10.3 Panther to be exact, running on a Nokia N900. Toni Nikkanen has done it, becoming the first person to run OS X on a phone, using PearPC and a lot of patience. It takes about 90 minutes to start up and it runs like molasses, [...]

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January 3rd, 2010

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How To Install Snow Leopard On A Dell Mini 9

The good, good people over at the MyDellMini forums have been working hard to get Snow Leopard up and purring on the Mini 9 since September, and now everything finally works. I’ve been waiting to publish this guide until Meklort released the final version of NetbookBootMaker .8.3, which resolves the issue of audio in/out not [...]

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December 28th, 2009

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Run Snow Leopard On Windows With VMware

VMware is a great solution for testing out different operating systems, but OS X clients have never been supported (for obvious reasons). Fellow hackintosh site iHackintosh has a great article on getting Snow Leopard to run on an Intel-based Windows machine. It involves getting a pre-made .VMDK file and tweaking some VMware settings. Overall, it’s [...]

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November 19th, 2009

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Re: The Old Copycat Debate, Revived

(Repost from subjectivemorality.com, my personal website.)
This is a response to an article in Win7 News, which you can read in its entirety here. The author, Deb Shinder, is a Windows/Microsoft fan. I am decidedly more in the Apple camp. In her article, Shinder talks about the popular perception that Microsoft copied aspects of OS X’s [...]

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