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. […]
March 14th, 2009
Apple Logo as a Second Monitor
Mac modder, Eddie Zarick, has taken the Apple logo on his black MacBook and transformed it into a second monitor. He hasn’t said how he did it yet, but there’s a tutorial section on his blog where he’ll be posting it soon, hopefully. For now, you can watch the video and be amazed as that […]
March 14th, 2009
Defunct Websites & Dot-Com Disasters
In the world of mega websites with stupid names like Twitter, Flickr and Facebook, it’s easy to forget that there was once a time when these ultra popular staples of an Internet generation didn’t exist. Before torrents, before MySpace, and long before an iPhone, you could still get your free music, catch some free flicks […]
March 13th, 2009
Track This Blog With Dashboard!
I know, I know. Windows users have been left out — for now. I’m working on an iGoogle gadget, but for now you can stick our RSS Feed somewhere. Let’s get on with the show. For Mac users, I’ve created a Dashboard Widget that lets you keep track of the absolute latest posts here at […]
March 13th, 2009
Put The News On Your Desktop With GeekTool
A man by the name of Rodolfo Novak has created a shell script that parses RSS feeds and generates excerpts for the last few entries. By itself, not very useful unless you love the terminal (like I do). That’s where GeekTool comes in. GeekTool is a preference pane for embedding images, system logs, and output […]
March 15th, 2009
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