Archive for December, 2008
Netflix Streaming for Mac now Official
Netflix has officially released their “Watch Instantly” streaming feature for all Mac users!
Requirements:
Intel Mac with 1GB+ RAM running Tiger 10.4.8+ or Leopard 10.5.0+
Microsoft Silverlight (4mb)
Firefox 2+ or Safari 3+
Netflix account (duh)
There’s a catch, however - it checks to see if you’re running a Mac-supported Intel CPU. If you haven’t properly edited your Hackintosh system to reflect [...]
OS X-Files: Now iPhone Compatible
Go ahead, fire it up on your iPhone or iPod Touch. You know you want to.
Free Software: Touchboard
Got a Mac with a touchscreen? Here’s a great little app that lets you open the onscreen keyboard with your finger: Touchboard. Add this app to your Dock and simply touch the icon to launch the onscreen keyboard - like magic!
Download here
Tip: The green “+” button in the top left corner will quadruple the [...]
Ion the Tiger
Nvidia has announced their latest platform: the “Ion“, which consists of an Intel Atom coupled with their 9400M chipset. What does this mean? It means we’re going to have monster nettops and netbooks in mid-2009! The Atom isn’t designed to be a super-hefty processor, but rather a low-heat, low-power CPU for small applications such as [...]
To Infinity…and Beyond!
zef’s team has announced that they have broken the 64K barrier with their bootloader, which is extremely good news to the community in general. Bootloaders are the engines that make the OSx86 project run. Yesterday, Dense announced that the Voodoo Kernel Team has joined forces with the Chameleon Team. With their powers combined, they become [...]
Sneak Peek: MKext Tool
Does PCWiz ever sleep? This guy has superhuman programming abilities! Seriously…introducing MKext Tool, yet another great tool from PCWiz’s labs. It’s a super-handy app that lets you both create an Extensions.mkext file from a collection of kexts as well as extract kexts from an existing Extensions.mkext file. No more messy Terminal commands! Plus it even [...]
Open Terminal Here
M. Dave Auayan has a great little app called Open Terminal Here, which does exactly as the name implies. If you’re inside a Finder window and run this program, it will open up a Terminal window and changes the directory to that location. It’s so handy that it’s a permanent part of my Dock now!
Download [...]
Sneak Peek: DSDT Patcher GUI
PCWiz has been working ’round the clock in the dev labs and has come up with this little beastie:
Yes folks…a point-and-click DSDT Patcher. Insta-prep your system for 10.5.6
Psystar says EULA is dumb
Although Apple is already suing Psystar, the game isn’t over yet - Psystar has amended their countersuit to say that Apple is guilty of copyright misuse regarding the Leopard EULA and DMCA. Basically Psystar wants to keep making money (illegally) and even though this is a weak approach, it’s all they can really do at [...]
Free Software: Show Path in Finder
I found a really handy Terminal trick at TUAW that shows you how to show the full path in Finder. This is handy for doing Terminal commands and simply seeing where you are within the file system. Here’s a screenshot of what the result is in Finder:
I converted this into a couple programs for easier [...]