Archive for March, 2009
The Apple 99% Rule
I’ve come up with a new model for explaining how Apple works regarding new product releases: it’s called the Apple 99% Rule. Basically it means that Apple will give you 99% of what you want, but make some bonedheaded decision about the remaining 1%. For a lot of companies, the 1% is incentive to get [...]
ScreenSaver Fix
Does your ScreenSaver come on randomly, even when you’ve set it to “Never”? This is actually a problem with real Macs as well as Hackintoshes. I found a solution posted by m41k on the InsanelyMac forums and it seems to be working so far, so I whipped up a little app to automate the process. [...]
Yeah baby!
Woz, you’re my hero
E5200 for $56.99
Go ahead. Click the link. You know you want to.
Dell is having an insane sale on the Intel E5200 CPU for a mere $56 plus shipping. If you’re not familiar with this wonderful chip, you should be! It’s basically a sub-$100 monster. It comes stock as a dual-core 2.5ghz chip, but since it’s 45nm (nice [...]
Pimp your Mini
Well, you’ve got your shiny new Mac Mini - time to upgrade!
Hard Drive Upgrades:
The hard drive is a standard 9.5mm 2.5″ SATA drive, which can accomodate both hard drives and solid-state drives. The largest and fastest available is the Seagate 500gb 7200rpm drive at $140, although the ratings are not so good - reviewers say [...]
The Mac is Dead, long live the Mac
Apple recently updated the ever-popular Mac Mini, complete with 5 USB ports, dual video ports, a Firewire 800 port, and a 9400m GPU. It can now use up to 4 gigs of RAM and sports newer 25-watt Core 2 Duo chips at 2.0 and 2.26ghz. Oh…and the CPU is soldered on. Yup. No more extreme [...]
We have to go Back…to the Future!
Got a file server with AFP? Want to use it as a Time Machine backup volume? Have no fear, the Delorean is here! This little app is called “TimeHack” and enables a hidden setting in Time Machine to allow you to back up to unsupported drives such as NFS, SMB, and AFP. Leopard likes AFP [...]
Waiting for the World to Change
Okay, I’m really just waiting on the ION. A few more months and good things happen…