Tag Archives: Apple / Mac

New iPod Shuffle is a Cruel Joke

March 16th, 2009

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When Apple’s new iPod Shuffle hit, it hit like a ton of bricks. A ton of bricks on everyone who enjoys using their iPod. Apple’s war on buttons has gone too far with this latest slight on usability: moving all the controls to the headphones. I don’t know about you, but I like controlling my […]

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Apple Logo as a Second Monitor

March 14th, 2009

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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 […]

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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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Near Perfect Audio With Latest AppleHDA

March 12th, 2009

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So there have been many updates to the audio since the 1525_codec and the AppleHDAPatcher that were included in the ever-so-popular drivers pack. Since then the Internal Microphone has been enabled as well as the External Microphone, switching to both the left and right headphone jacks for headphone use (just not both at the same […]

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The Hack Is Back!

February 11th, 2009

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The tie-wearing idiots over at Best Buy’s Geek Squad finally received my Dell Inspiron 1525 back from warranty. The guy who examined it after it arrived was very surprised that they replaced the whole LCD screen. He opened it up as he was explaining how rare it was for them to replace the whole thing. […]

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