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Quick Fix to get 10.6.2 Working on Atom Netbooks

November 11th, 2009

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Have you updated your little Atom-based hackintosh to 10.6.2 and now are stuck with an unusable lump of plastic? Well, there’s an easy fix: downgrade your kernel. These simple instructions (courtesy of meklort) should get you back on your feet: Boot from whatever medium you used to install OS X. Go to Utilities -> Terminal. [...]

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Apple Regains Their Collective Sanity, Updates iTunes 9 With Option for Dark Background

October 31st, 2009

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Awhile ago, I wrote a post about iTunes 9 and how Apple had completely uglified it. Now, Apple has released an update, 9.0.2, that resolves one of my complaints: the eye-shieldingly white Grid View background: Compare that to the new iTunes 9, with the option for a dark background: Now, doesn’t that look better, Apple? [...]

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Five Things I Hate About The iPod Touch

October 27th, 2009

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I love my iPod. Not as much as this idiot, but I still love it. That said, there are some things that I absolutely hate about it; little design choices that make me groan every day: 1. The Music App When the iPod came out in 2001, it virtually created the PMP market, so you’d [...]

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Change The Name Of An Untitled Windows Partition

July 17th, 2009

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If you’re dual-booting OS X and a more recent version of Windows, you’ll likely have noticed that your Windows partition is labeled “Untitled” in OS X. I’m anal about these sort of things and this bothers me to no end, so I began searching for a way to change the name to something more descriptive. [...]

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Drivers Galore! (The Master Drivers Guide)

July 9th, 2009

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Over the past couple of months, many Leopard drivers have been released, updated, killed with OS updates, etc. To keep up with all of these changes, one must refer to 12 different posts, two encyclopedias, and a lawyer to go through all the fine. I figured “If people have to look in so many places, [...]

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How to Remove a Dell Inspiron 1525 Keyboard

July 9th, 2009

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Since most of the people visiting this site are probably rocking an Inspiron 1525, I figured we should write some hardware-related stuff. Having OS X running on non-apple hardware means nothing if your hardware doesn’t work. One of my gripes with the 1525 is that the keyboard is prone to getting dirty; the keys almost [...]

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Grab Snow Leopard’s Sexy New Wallpaper Now

June 17th, 2009

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Snow Leopard is slated for release in September, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get a taste of it now. The new wallpaper, like Snow Leopard itself, is a refinement, and you may as well get used to it now, because you’re going to be seeing it in every Apple store for the next two [...]

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