Tag Archives: mac

Apple wins case against Psystar, ruins reputation in the process

December 19th, 2009

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It was a sad day in the land of Hackintosh as Apple won its ongoing case with Psystar. The ruling ordered Psystar, a company made famous for it’s custom built Hackintoshes, “a permanent injunction.. banning it from selling hardware with Apple’s operating system.” The ruling also forbid Psystar from: Copying or selling OS X Inducing, […]

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Re: The Old Copycat Debate, Revived

November 19th, 2009

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(Repost from subjectivemorality.com, my personal website.) This is a response to an article in Win7 News, which you can read in its entirety here. The author, Deb Shinder, is a Windows/Microsoft fan. I am decidedly more in the Apple camp. In her article, Shinder talks about the popular perception that Microsoft copied aspects of OS […]

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Snow Leopard Theme Pack for Windows 7

November 17th, 2009

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I just threw together a Windows 7 theme pack with Snow Leopard’s wallpapers and some sounds from OS X. Here’s a preview: You can download the Snow Leopard theme here, and I’ve also taken the liberty of making a Leopard/Tiger theme as well, for those of you who are partial to the older wallpapers. If […]

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Quick Fix to get 10.6.2 Working on Atom Netbooks

November 11th, 2009

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Have you updated your little Atom-based hackintosh to 10.6.2 and now are stuck with an unusable lump of plastic? Well, there’s an easy fix: downgrade your kernel. These simple instructions (courtesy of meklort) should get you back on your feet: Boot from whatever medium you used to install OS X. Go to Utilities -> Terminal. […]

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Five Things I Hate About The iPod Touch

October 27th, 2009

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I love my iPod. Not as much as this idiot, but I still love it. That said, there are some things that I absolutely hate about it; little design choices that make me groan every day: 1. The Music App When the iPod came out in 2001, it virtually created the PMP market, so you’d […]

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