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Making your PC keyboard more Mac-Like

When your PC keyboard doesn’t want to behave in OS X

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“Green” MacBook Pro Wallpaper

I’m sure you’ve seen the new “green” MacBook Pro commercials on TV. Well now you can get a little closer to it by using the official, gigantic, high-res wallpaper that was used in the advertising. Weighing in at a whopping 2560×1600 pixels, it’s definitely sexy stuff and it just might grow on me. Grab a [...]

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Improving HackBook Battery Life

After playing around tonight getting the battery meter and speed step working on XxX 10.5.6, I decided to unplug for the first time and see how long my battery life is. I’m not exactly sure how powerful the battery is in my Dell Inspiron 1525 HackBook. Honestly, when I bought the computer I was shopping [...]

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The Credit Card Culture

I recently accepted a number of gold card applications, just to stop them from mailing me applications. Now I have a couple of gold cards. I figure I’ll cycle them, accepting new ones as long the postage is pre-paid, and cutting up the old ones with bad interest rates. I think the ‘credit card culture’ [...]

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Mac OS X 10.5.7 Released This Month?

Apple has been seeding Mac OS X 10.5.7 9J27 to developers now for about a week and this raises the all important question: When is it being released? 10.5.7 includes some seriously major fixes as it seems to be Apple’s trademark to release 200 new features and 150 new bug fixes (Verses Microsoft releasing 200 [...]

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Top Most Pirated Movies Online

It seems even movie pirates are vampire romance geeks with no life as Twilight, the movie based on the popular book series, is still going strong as the #1 most pirated movie online based on the top BitTorrent trackers and number of people downloading/sharing the film. Who said teenage girls don’t date vampires with bad [...]

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SD Card Reader Working On HackBooks

Thanks to Thomas Piccirello for pointing this out, and for Genaro Bonilla’s original article. Close, but no cigar. Until now. I’m sure you, like me, have been going around in circles replacing IOSDHCIBlockDevice.kext with different versions in hopes of the card reader coming to life. It turns out you need two kexts: IOSDHCIBlockDevice.kext and IOPCIFamily.kext. [...]

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