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Poor Man’s Mac Pro: Hackintosh Software Updates 2008-03-02 20:57:41 In my ever continuing Hackintosh adventures, we find ourselves with what every Mac hacker drools over and dreams of: a $200 ‘Mac Pro’ fully updated with all the latest Apple goodies on par with the real mac owners who’ve spent thousands of dollars for the ability to take their computer to AppleCare.
In my two months [...] Read more:Software
Acronym City: Y CNT U RD TS? 2008-03-01 20:27:20 Just the other day I was talking to someone through Windows Live Messenger (MSN Messenger) when suddenly he started to type in a delusional, almost cryptic word using abbreviations and acronyms unbeknown to me. I’m no stranger to chat, having frequented the likes of AIM, Yahoo!, ICQ, IRC, etc. for over a decade now, but [...]
Insten Sync Cradle For Treo’s 2008-02-15 07:51:07 I didn’t expect this item to work because everywhere I found it online listed it as only for the Treo 650. Eforcity had it priced just right and claimed it supported a handful of Treo’s including my 700p, so for $9.99 I took the small risk and purchased this aftermarket cradle.
To my surprise, it [...] Read more:Cradle
Cheap Smartphone Case (Leather!) 2008-02-09 19:51:07 I was very skeptical about buying a third-party phone case online for the simple fact that a lot of these cheap knockoffs aren’t exactly 100% as advertised. I had been using a funky digital camera holster for my PocketPC (that’s how mammoth it was). and the slimmer Treo wasn’t exactly a tight fit. After a [...] Read more:Cheap
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, Leather
How To Cancel Your Cell Phone Contract 2008-02-04 11:13:34 Aside from faking your own death or moving to Antarctica, there are few options for people wanting out of that lengthy cell phone contract unless you’re willing to pony up the cash for the $200 to $300 early termination fee written in lawyer-speak on the back of the phone contract you probably don’t remember signing. [...] Read more:Cancel
, Cell Phone
My Phone Alarm Tone 2008-02-02 10:53:27 I’ve realized over the years that on all these fancy and expensive mobile devices, the “alarm” tones are more of an annoying melody rather than just plain annoying. Easily incorporated into my dreams, I often find myself snoozing without hitting the “Snooze” button and sleeping straight through an army of repeat sessions with the common [...]
Microsoft Office 2008 For Mac 2008-02-02 00:29:09 We waited 4 years for this shit? Well, it wouldn’t be the first time. If you remember back in 1994 when Office 4.2.1 was released, it took Microsoft
another 3 1/2 years to roll out a decent version of Office ‘98 for the Macintosh users. Here we are in the first month of the year [...] Read more:Microsoft Office
Do We Need Another Republican? 2008-01-31 23:32:06 I know, I know. 246 more days till the United States presidential elections and there are fewer faces running than when I first stepped out of my own little world and tried to imagine this beautiful country without another Republican
in office. I’m not really trying to pick sides on this statement but come on, [...]
Strange eBay Offer 2008-01-28 21:24:47 I’ve seen a lot of odd error messages from popular websites when something times out, goes offline, crashes, etc. but this is the first time I’ve seen an e-mail error message from one of the biggest sites of them all: eBay.com. It would appear SquareTrade wants to offer one of those amazing 5-year warranties and [...] Read more:Strange
, Offer
YouTube Goes Mobile Again! 2008-01-25 14:24:15 YouTube Mobile
has finally done the cell phone justice by launching an update to their website which will allow all 3G phones with video streaming support to access YouTube for Mobile, a service once reserved only for the likes of Verizon and Helio. Prepare to get fired from your job because YouTube is now more [...] Read more:YouTube
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The Holy Grail And My HackBook Pro 2008-03-12 01:35:39 Let’s face it, sure that Pentium 4 is still chugging along, but what if you could build a real Mac, minus the logo? Welcome to Intel’s newest line of CPU’s. Nowadays, you can pick up a bundle Intel Core2 Duo 2.2GHz paired with a standard motherboard with on-board 64MB of video memory and all the [...] Read more:Grail
Do You Need Anti-Virus On Your Mac? 2008-03-13 18:28:52 Microsoft’s Windows Operating System is the most popular computer software in the world right now. With the #1 spot comes more than the bright limelight. Crackers and “script kiddies” are out to exploit your Windows-based desktop or laptop and steal all your personal information. For the average Internet user, sooner or later that’s going to [...]
Things That Won’t Exist In The Future 2008-03-29 21:32:41 We’ve come a long way in the past 50 years as far as technology is concerned. As more new stuff comes out, it leaves most of us to wonder what new and exciting things we’ll see in the future. For a few people like myself, we’re left wondering not what cool things we’ll have in [...] Read more:Future
Unhappy With My Palm Treo 2008-04-02 15:30:42 I never imagined I’d hear myself saying this, but maybe ditching Windows Mobile, no matter how horrible the battery life, was a bad decision on my part. While I couldn’t get enough of my Treo 700p when I first bought it, after loading office apps, VNC, SSH, a decent e-mail client, and struggling to find [...] Read more:Palm Treo
Death To My Hackintosh 2008-04-05 00:21:42 Well, it appears I’m going to be using Microsoft Vista for a little while. Yesterday, my Hackintosh started to freeze up every couple of hours. After further investigation I realized that my USB ports, among other things, were failing on the motherboard. Serves me right for going sub-bargain-basement. I’m going to give my Mac hacking [...]
The Sunshine State? Yeah, right… 2008-04-07 11:37:23 My Wife and I planned to spend our hard-earned weekend lounging around in Sea World’s latest water park called Aquatica which opened just last month. It boasts two of the largest lazy rivers around and is packed with new rides and and gigantic wave pools hugging 80,000 square feet of sandy beach. Sounds like the [...] Read more:State
Jack Sparrow’s Cell Phone 2008-04-14 18:40:26 So, last week I canned my Treo 700p and picked up a new BlackBerry 8130 (Pearl) off eBay for $250 and I must say, it works really well and will work even better when I upgrade it to OS 4.5. I’m still trying to rack my brain and remember the names of all the cool [...] Read more:Cell Phone
Life With The BlackBerry Pearl 8130 2008-04-24 06:22:48 I’ve had my new BlackBerry
8130 for about a week now and I must say, while there are some cons over pros on this little device, it’s really rock-solid and stable. Gone are the days of random freezes and crashes like Treo’s and PocketPC’s in the past. I was actually able to leave a wide [...] Read more:Pearl
Selling My BlackBerry Pearl 2008-04-30 10:21:50 Well, that didn’t take long! And it’s not that my BlackBerry
doesn’t work great, don’t get me wrong — this is a solid platform trusted by hundreds of thousands Hollywood stars and Government officials alike. The only problem I have with it is that it works too well. Yeah, you heard me right. There’s nothing [...] Read more:Pearl
PC In My Pocket 2008-05-16 05:30:24 I’ve been playing with my new phone for about a week now, the HTC PPC-6800. I’m in love. It’s smaller than the 6700 I had, jet black and spring-loaded with enough power to do things such as 802.11b/g wireless, stream every kind of media imaginable, and even act as an FTP or torrent server. Now [...] Read more:Pocket
Saving On Gas Means Going Broke 2008-05-22 07:16:08 With oil prices out of control and the cost at the pump reaching new highs every day, people are now moving to more fuel efficient gas/electric hybrid cars like the popular Toyota Prius to save money on hitting the daily commute. Some people are taking the savings even further by modifying their hybrid cars to [...] Read more:Going
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Leopard 10.5.3 Now Hackintosh’d! 2008-05-29 18:44:32 It happened in a matter of hours from its official release from Apple, Mac OS X 10.5.3, the latest major release of Leopard
has been hacked to run on your average PC using a special kernel to bypass special restrictions. Major build releasers such as JaS and Kalyway have already put out Combo Updates which [...]
GeForce Rocks On Mac OS X 10.5.3 2008-06-02 09:30:06 After seeing just how beautiful Mac OS X 10.5.3 is, I had to purchase a new graphics card that supported “true” OpenGL 2.0. Let me tell you that the difference is night and day. I still have my older 128MB eVGA GeForce
5200FX for a second monitor but my main card is a brand new [...] Read more:Rocks
Warez Antivirus Downloaders Are Stupid 2008-06-09 00:00:26 You know what really makes me laugh? When people, sometimes classified as “advanced noobs” try to steal money from poor antivirus companies by downloading “full version” working retail copies of their antivirus software to protect their personal computer. If you knew that 99% of the people downloading your file had absolutely no antivirus protection, wouldn’t [...] Read more:Downloaders
, Stupid
The “Free Mac” Offer’s Not For Me 2008-06-20 21:39:35 I’ve been thinking for the past couple days about taking up one of these amazing website offers of absolutely “free” prizes just for completing some random offers. One of the biggest prizes and most popular happen to be Apple products. A free iPhone, Mac Mini, Macbook Pro, etc. A quick Google search undercovers multiple blog [...] Read more:Offer
What Ever Happened To RealPlayer? 2008-07-08 16:43:41 One of my favorite media players when I hooked up my first computer to the Internet was RealPlayer
. From streaming radio stations to movies, Real was where it was at. The first version of RealPlayer was introduced in April of 1995 as RealAudio Player which was one of the first media players capable of streaming [...]
Do You Care About iTunes DRM? 2008-06-29 21:55:48 Back in the days of Windows 95 and “MMX” technology, you could purchase music from your favorite store that came on a disc (or tape). These mediums allowed you to play them in just about any device. From Sony to RCA, you could enjoy your music anywhere. It was, after all, your music. Play it [...] Read more:iTunes
Hate Vista? So Does Intel 2008-06-26 14:42:21 With recent shipments of failure from the Microsoft camp, including a rather useless Service Pack 3 for aged XP and a “Reliability” Service Pack update for Vista
SP1, their users have been speaking out for years since the release of Windows Vista in late 2006. And surprisingly (not), major companies are speaking out about just [...] Read more:Intel
エスプレッソのレポート 2008-06-26 10:12:18 We’re slowly updating this blog for 2009. I know, we’ve got a lot of work to do. Over the next week you’re going to start seeing slight to major changes in how we present this incoherency we call The Espresso Report. One of a few changes you might’ve noticed is that I’ve shortened the pages [...]
Dell Inspiron 1525 HackBook Pro Tutorial! 2008-07-21 15:29:29 (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 1525 HackBook Pro. First, let’s look at the specs and see what [...] Read more:Tutorial
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