Big news for WWDC

Well, Hackintosh news, that is…lots of good things coming tomorrow here on the blog - stay tuned! :D

WWDC

June 8, 2009 • Posted in: Musings • 3 Comments

I’m all a-Twitter

Tweet-tweet!  Yup, I’m on Twitter.  I never, ever thought I’d do it, but I did!  You can follow me here: (and yes, I will return the favor ;) )

http://twitter.com/weaksauce12

 

Twitter

April 30, 2009 • Posted in: Fun • 1 Comment

Oh man, I think I’m in love

I spotted this beast on Engadget today:

LAN Warrior

The specs are incredible:

This would make a BEAST of a Hackintosh!  The good news is, they’re using off-the-shelf parts, so you can roll your own!

Go ahead and do some window shopping here:

iBuyPower Homepage

April 28, 2009 • Posted in: Hardware • No Comments

Free Software: DropBurn

Here’s a quick little utility for quickly burning ISO & DMG files: DropBurn!  Just add it to your Dock, insert a blank CD or DVD disc, and drop the ISO or DMG file on the icon to burn.  A text box appears to show progress and will stay up after burning until you click Quit.  As they say, laziness is the mother of invention…;)

 

DropBurn Icon

Download here

 

Image courtesy of Interfacelift (Seeing Red set by Haysoj).  Code for geeks: (set to “Is droppable” with ISO & DMG image types)

echo Burning “$1″ to disc now…

hdiutil burn “$1″ -noverifyburn

March 30, 2009 • Posted in: Software • 2 Comments

Free Software: P Diddle

I know, I know, I’m stretching for names now :)  This is a simple little app that launches the Boot Plist as well as the SystemConfiguration folder for quick access.  When I’m doing dev work on the Hackintosh side of things, I like to be able to pop open my Boot Plist file quickly to make changes.  Remember, you can’t save in the directory, so you’ll need to save the file to the Desktop or something, then copy it into the SystemConfiguration folder to authenticate.  Just a handy little app, hope you enjoy it!

 

P Diddle icon

Download here

 

Icon courtesy of InterfaceLift (Creatures icon set by FastIcon.com).  Code for geeks:

open /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/

open -a “TextEdit” /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

March 30, 2009 • Posted in: Software • No Comments

Free Software: DNS Nuke

I read a nice article about clearing your DNS cache if you’re having web-related issues, so I decided to whip it into a little quick-run app!  You may also want to reset your router to flush its DNS cache as well.

DNS Nuke icon

Download Here

 

Icon courtesy of troyboydesign.  Code for geeks:

dscacheutil -flushcache

March 30, 2009 • Posted in: Software • No Comments

Free Software: KextSpy

Ever wonder what kexts are running on your system?  Wonder no more!  Introducing KextSpy, a simple app that  display the status of all dynamically-loaded kernel extensions in TextEdit, where you can then view it or save it.  It loads not only the name of the kext, but also the version number as well as various other tidbits (index, refs, address, size, and wired).  This is especially useful if you’re doing a lot of dev work and need to quickly peek at the loaded kexts :)

 

KextSpy Icon

Download here

 

Icon courtesy of InterfaceLift (Creatures set from FastIcon.com).  Here’s the code for the geek crowd: (note the neat | -tf trick for opening directly in TextEdit!)

kextstat | open -tf

March 30, 2009 • Posted in: Software • No Comments

Whip your Fonts into Shape

E-book freebie from ExtensisFont Management in Mac OS X: Best Practices Guide (5th edition).  Covers Leopard, CS4, and a bit of Office.

 

Download here (PDF)

 

Some more useful font-related stuff by The Apple Blog’s Font School series:

March 19, 2009 • Posted in: Design • No Comments

I’m Too Sexy for my iMac

Shuttle has gotten official with the X50, due out at the end of March ‘09 (this month, people!).

Features:

Shuttle X50

What we don’t know:

Worst comes to worst, we’ll have to get a USB sound card, USB webcam, USB Bluetooth adapter, and get a Dell Wifi Mini-PCIe card.  No big deal.  The clincher will be whether or not the Touchscreen works.  If not, it’s still a mighty nice computer for $499!

March 18, 2009 • Posted in: Hardware • No Comments

Killer RAID Card 1/2 Off

Newegg has the HightPoint RocketRAID 4320 8x PCI-e SATA/SAS RAID card for only $330 shipped (saw this on BareFeats.com).  This is similar to the official $700 Mac Pro RAID card, but has the advantage of being both cheaper AND bootable (via cloning).  BareFeats did a RAID 0 test as well as a RAID 5/6 test on it, with excellent results.  More details at the 4320’s product page and the latest driver on their Mac site.  This card supports up to 8 SATA/SAS ports and has an onboard battery backup system to preserve array integrity.  The Web GUI manual is available online (PDF).

HighPoint RAID