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Backing Up Your Data: The Where, The Why, and The How

Most of you out there (hopefully all of you, actually) have heard of the importance of backing up your data. Some reasons are universal between Macs and PCs while others are not. PC’s need to be backed up because of the possibility of hardware failure and the chance of getting Viruses, Spyware and the like, [...]

New Chameleon… say what? (RC4)

Update: Due to issues with Chameleon RC4 when upgrading Snow Leopard, this guide has been reverted back to Chameleon RC3. **Post updated with Chameleon RC4 files** The most widely used and probably the best bootloader out for OSX86 systems, Chameleon, is out with yet another update. This latest version ditches that ugly, white text and [...]

How to: NTFS in OS X Leopard & Snow Leopard

Have you ever been in this situation: you’re dual booting Leopard/Snow Leopard and Windows, and are currently booted to OS X. You download/create a file and now you want to copy it over to your Windows Partition. But, when you try to drag it over to your Windows Partition, you get an error! This can [...]

10.5.7 Download

***Instructions for installing 10.5.7 are up and can be found here*** Just wanted to make a quick note and say that if you are going to be so kind and help out testing 10.5.7,  go to the download page on apple.com instead of through Software Update. Software Update and Apple.com use different servers and right [...]

Goddam, this computer is running HOT!!!

Have you ever heard your fans kick up to their highest RPM, so you feel the bottom of your computer to see why and shout “Goddam, this computer is running HOT!!!” I definitely have before and its not good for you or your system. Not only have people actually been severely burned by overheated laptops, [...]

Backing Up Your Data; The Where, Why, and How

Turn Old Hard Drives Into Time Machines

I’ve all but gutted my first Hackintosh — the Celeron D-powered war horse and by doing so, I saved myself some cash. While everyone’s running to buy the wireless Time Capsule device, I only have one machine i really need to back up and that’s my HackBook Pro I use at the office. Why waste [...]