Archive for February, 2009
Safari 4 Beta & Hacks
The beta for Safari 4 (Mac/PC) has been released. Available for download here.
Here’s some software hacks for you: (restart Safari after installing)
Tab Fix: This reverts tabs to Safari 3-style, instead of the new “on top” style in Safari 4. Includes a reverter.
Download here
Page Load Fix: Restores the blue page loading indictator in the address [...]
Beef up your Macbook
Need a terabyte inside your laptop? Okay!
MCE Technologies has updated their Optibay line of products, which replaces the DVD drive inside your Macbook with an enclosure containing a secondary hard drive. That means you can put a 500gb drive in as a boot drive, plus another 500gb drive in place of the optical drive. 1TB, [...]
A Breath of Fresh Air
MSI has unveiled two new Xslim laptops: the 13.4″ X340 and the 15.6″ X600. The X340 is rumored to debut between $699 and $999, which is a huge gap from the Apple Air, which starts at $1799. Ouch! Hopefully these beasts will be offered with the ION platform in coming years. Both feature HDMI & [...]
Hot! Zotac 7300GT for $30 shipped
Super hot deal - Newegg is once again carrying the fanless 256mb Zotac 7300GT, one of my favorite Hackintosh cards. It handles 1080p wonderfully (when paired with a minimum of a 2ghz dual-core CPU & 2 gigs of RAM) . Even better, it’s completely silent thanks to a giant heatsink!
$28.99 shipped via Newegg
$1,000 Hackintosh Recipe
Noodling around Newegg today and thought I’d share a foolproof Hackintosh recipe:
Coolermaster 690 Case
(2) 120mm Scythe 20dB case fans
610w PC Power & Cooling power supply
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard
2.4ghz Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad processor
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 CPU Cooler
Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste
(4) 2gb G.Skill DDR2-800mhz memory sticks
(2) Samsung F1 1TB hard drives
20x Lite-on DVD burner [...]
New Snow Leopard features emerge
Tom’s Hardware has the scoop:
Quicktime Pro, for free (integrated into the system)
Printer Drivers on demand, via Software Update (no more 9-gig installations!)
ZFS support for Leopard Server
SPEED (full 64-bit support, OpenCL, GrandCentral)
10.5.6 Mouse Lag fix for Nvidia Cards
Good news: If you have an Nvidia video card and have been experiencing mouse lag issues in 10.5.6, the solution has been found! All you have to do is remove or disable AppleUpstreamuserclient.kext. This kext is specifically for the 9400/9600 Nvidia GPUs and adds DRM, which has caused other problems such as green screens on [...]
Kindle Suggestions for Amazon
Amazon’s Kindle 2.0 E-Book Reader was officially announced yesterday and reactions are mixed. The biggest complaint I’ve heard is the price - $359? People aren’t even complaining that much about the book prices (despite being super high for having NO OVERHEAD other than a server), just the actual cost of the device. Lack of supported [...]
Disk Management 101
A lot of people wonder how to properly optimize their systems and deal with hard disk management in OS X. Here’s some info to get you started:
Backup Systems
1. SuperDuper!: This program is available as shareware and pay-for ($28); the pay-for version adds automatic scheduling for cloning and backups. The idea is similar to Norton Ghost [...]
Amazon announces Kindle 2
Amazon has announced the Kindle 2.0 e-book reader. I had a Kindle 1.0 and really liked it, except for one major design flaw (the oversized buttons) which has been addressed with the 2.0 model. The difference between an e-book reader and a computer monitor or mobile phone is the e-ink screen. E-ink “prints” text and [...]