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iTunes 8, QuickTime, “Let’s Rock!”

September 9th, 2008

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Apple kicked off its “Let’s Rock” iTunes event this morning out on the west coast. For those of you looking to upgrade to the latest versions of iTunes and QuickTime released after the event — go right ahead! For anyone running Mac OS X using my tutorial, please be aware that once you reboot from […]

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Turn Old Hard Drives Into Time Machines

July 26th, 2008

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I’ve all but gutted my first Hackintosh — the Celeron D-powered war horse and by doing so, I saved myself some cash. While everyone’s running to buy the wireless Time Capsule device, I only have one machine i really need to back up and that’s my HackBook Pro I use at the office. Why waste […]

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Alternative To “Sleep Trick” On Intel GMAX3100

July 24th, 2008

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This “trick” is now outdated and has been replaced by the much more reliable DSDT.aml file which automatically wakes the screen for you 100% of the time. The guide for it can be found here. A lot of us on laptops using Intel’s onboard GMAX3100 are having to do something called the “sleep trick” to […]

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Dell Inspiron 1525 Hackintosh/HackBook Pro Tutorial!

July 21st, 2008

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**This post is outdated. Use this guide to install Snow Leopard** (At the time of writing, 10.5.4 is the latest version of Mac OS X) I’ve done it, and I absolutely love it for more reasons than one. Now I’m going to show you how it’s done so you too can have your own Inspiron […]

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Dell Inspiron 1525 HackBook Pro — AMAZING!

July 18th, 2008

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I bought another laptop at Best Buy after giving my garnet red Gateway to the (idiot) Geek Squad. Want to return a computer to Best Buy? Just say the screen flickers. They’re not going to spend an hour waiting for the momentious occacioun that your laptop actually has an issue. They’re too busy collecting huge […]

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