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Track This Blog With Dashboard!

March 13th, 2009

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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 […]

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Put The News On Your Desktop With GeekTool

March 13th, 2009

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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 […]

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Fine Tuning The Volume On Your Mac

March 13th, 2009

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After installing the new AppleHDA and having the audio finally working properly, I figured you would probably want to mess around with some new settings that are available to you. First, you can get more precise volume adjustment by holding down the option(Windows Key) + shift keys and tapping the volume up/down keys on your […]

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Dell HackBook Media Keys Working

March 13th, 2009

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After reading up on some information from Google and InsanelyMac, I decided to take a dive into getting the media keys working myself and now I’m writing about my success and how you too can get s to play nice with your touch sensitive media keys on the Dell Inspiron 1525. For this tutorial, we’re […]

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Mac Startup Sound On Your Hackintosh

March 13th, 2009

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For those of you who have a real Mac, you’re probably familiar with the “Sosumi” sound; that cheery “BONG!” that greets you when you boot OS X. Unfortunately, for those of us intrepid hackers who use OSX86, the sound is unavailable. Apple has baked the sound into their EFI firmware, which as of yet doesn’t […]

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