Tag Archive | "mac"

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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Updating to Snow Leopard 10.6.4

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

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Note: If you require the legacy kernel you must follow step 4a. Otherwise, you should skip that step. Just one day after Snow Leopard 10.6.4 was released to the public, it’s up and running on the 1525 with practically no effort. The USB ports now work at USB 2.0 speeds, even without the removal of [...]

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µTorrent For Mac Gets A New Beta

Thursday, June 3, 2010

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µTorrent is the most popular BitTorrent client for Windows, and recently it moved to beta for the Mac. A new beta of the application (labeled as 0.9.3.10) went live this month and features a revised interface and native code (meaning it was developed in Cocoa). The new beta also includes an enhanced torrent info panel, tweaks to µTP, support for magnet links, and [...]

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Adding Linux File System support to Leopard (ext2 & ext3)

Friday, February 26, 2010

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This is yet another guide in my rewrite rampage. Note: This software is incompatible with Snow Leopard. With it now easier than ever to dual boot Linux and OS X, you might be considering giving Linux a try (or even more favorably, Ubuntu). Linux in general is great due to its stability, many customizable looks, [...]

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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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How To Install Snow Leopard On A Dell Mini 9

Sunday, January 3, 2010

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The good, good people over at the MyDellMini forums have been working hard to get Snow Leopard up and purring on the Mini 9 since September, and now everything finally works. I’ve been waiting to publish this guide until Meklort released the final version of NetbookBootMaker .8.3, which resolves the issue of audio in/out not [...]

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Apple wins case against Psystar, ruins reputation in the process

Saturday, December 19, 2009

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It was a sad day in the land of Hackintosh as Apple won its ongoing case with Psystar. The ruling ordered Psystar, a company made famous for it’s custom built Hackintoshes, “a permanent injunction.. banning it from selling hardware with Apple’s operating system.” The ruling also forbid Psystar from: Copying or selling OS X Inducing, [...]

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