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Using your Windows Lojack Anti-Theft Subscription in OS X

August 12th, 2009

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If you were like me when you purchased your native Windows Laptop, you may have opted for many things such as a longer warranty and what not. One of the options that was available, which I sprung for, was 3 years of Lojack for Laptop Protection. At the time, I didn’t know about Hackintoshing so […]

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Change The Name Of An Untitled Windows Partition

July 17th, 2009

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If you’re dual-booting OS X and a more recent version of Windows, you’ll likely have noticed that your Windows partition is labeled “Untitled” in OS X. I’m anal about these sort of things and this bothers me to no end, so I began searching for a way to change the name to something more descriptive. […]

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Resizing HFS+ Partitions

June 5th, 2009

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Most everyone, including yours truly, has at some point needed to resize partitions or make new ones. Unfortunately, dare I say it, unlike Windows, OS X does not have any built in tools to edit the partitions. I will admit that that isn’t necessarily true because you can erase and reformat current partitions but, like […]

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Goddamn, this computer is running HOT!!!

March 30th, 2009

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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, […]

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

March 20th, 2009

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