December 6th, 2011

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Dual-booting Chromium OS and Ubuntu Linux

Note: The following guide should work with any version of Linux, though these instructions are specific to Ubuntu 11.10. The process also involves formatting your entire hard drive (not just a partition) so be sure to back up all data before proceeding. Finally, major thanks to Hexxeh for his continued hard work. This is just [...]

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November 5th, 2011

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Maximizing your battery’s life cycle

Admit it: the Inspiron 1525 is an aging laptop. For many of you, it’s probably pushing its third year. Laptop batteries, much like most Dell laptops, only have a 1-year life expectancy. After that first year, their capacity begins to slowly decrease. For anyone still using the original battery, I laud you; mine stopped holding [...]

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July 12th, 2011

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Updating your Hackintosh/Hackbook to Snow Leopard 10.6.8

No, I haven’t forgotten about you guys. Read on and you’ll see why the 10.6.8 update guide hasn’t been published yet.

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June 26th, 2011

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Paul Thurrott’s Spotty WWDC Coverage

Windows blogger Paul Thurrott has a long track record of saying dumb things when it comes to Apple, but it’s still fun to point out where he’s wrong. Reading his coverage of WWDC and OS X Lion, I found a lot of things to take issue with. Let’s get started. On why people buy Macs: [...]

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June 19th, 2011

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Beautifying Chameleon with two lines of code

Chameleon is undoubtedly the favorite bootloader among hackintosh users and dual-booters alike. With native support for OS X, Windows, and Linux, an eye-catching selection screen, and support for advanced boot flags, Chameleon does it all. Version 2 saw vast aesthetic improvements over version 1, ditching the command line for a graphical user interface (GUI). One [...]

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