Tag Archive | "hackintosh"

Hardware Mod: Adding a second Hard Drive to my Inspiron 1525

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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Hardware Mod: Adding a second Hard Drive to my Inspiron 1525

That's right, I've added a second Hard Drive. But you've got to read on to find out how.

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Enabling OS X’s Bluetooth On/Off Switch

Saturday, June 19, 2010

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One of the vast options available to you when you purchased your Inspiron 1525 was the addition of an integrated Broadcom Bluetooth chip. Dell was offering it for an extra $25, so I jumped on the opportunity of having one extra means of connectivity. Three years and many experiences later, I’ve probably used the Bluetooth [...]

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Perfecting Your Snow Leopard Hackintosh

Thursday, June 17, 2010

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Note: As of June 17, 2010, the Retail Snow Leopard Installation Guide includes these updates. If you followed that guide after June 17, 2010, you will already have these updated kexts and therefore should ignore this guide. With much excitement, I bring you this update guide to finally resolve the audio issues in Snow Leopard. [...]

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Updating to Snow Leopard 10.6.3

Sunday, June 6, 2010

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Note: This update requires you to be running 10.6.2. You can download and install the 10.6.2 update from here. Note2: DO NOT update if you have a Celeron Processor, or any other processor that required you to use a special kernel when updating to 10.6.2. Simply follow step 4a to install the legacy kernel for [...]

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

Sunday, February 14, 2010

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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, [...]

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Updating to Snow Leopard 10.6.2

Friday, February 12, 2010

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Note: This update requires you to be running 10.6.1. If you aren’t already, you can download and install the 10.6.1 update from here. And don’t worry, just install and restart when prompted and you’ll be good to go. Snow Leopard has been available to the public for almost 6 months now, has received 2 updates, [...]

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

Sunday, January 31, 2010

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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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