Category: Hacks

PsyStar website is back, Rebel EFI [and a t-shirt] available for sale

December 20, 2009

What a difference a day and another attorney can make. As expected, the Florida-based company is indeed back — a bit faster than I had thought — and selling selling their hacker’s toolkit for installing Mac OS X on generic PC hardware.

Apple and Psystar settle, sort of

December 1, 2009

Apple and Psystar settle, sort ofApple has at long last settled a lawsuit with clonemaker Psystar, which has agreed not to install OS X on the systems they sell, but that may not stop the Florida company selling Apple clones.

Apple Magic Mouse now for Windows

November 23, 2009

Apple Magic Mouse now for WindowsApple’s innovative new Magic Mouse, complete with multi-touch and gesture technology, is now available for the Windows operating system, both officially and unofficially.

Hackintoshers bring back Atom support

November 20, 2009

Let the games begin! When Apple left support for Intel Atom processors out of Mac OS X 10.6.2, we all knew it would be a matter days before savvy netbook users would re-instate the functionality and now that’s exactly what’s happened — rock on.

Summary judgements bite PsyStar hard

November 14, 2009

Both the hackintosh maker and Apple had requested summary judgements from the bench, a risky move that could have delivered a stinging rebuke and lopsided defeat to either side. Nevertheless, it was the Cupertino, California-based Mac, iPod and iPhone that prevailed with the judge coming down against the illegal cloner on nearly every charge — a likely death blow.

How to: Selectively enable Flash apps, animations in Safari

October 14, 2009

When it comes to Web browsing, Flash is a primary source of both insecurity and instability, not to mention unadulterated annoyance even when Adobe’s proprietary multimedia middleware does its job. Here’s a quick, easy and free way to precisely control where and when, if at all, you choose to use Flash.

Palm blinks in iTunes sync battle

September 30, 2009

Palm blinks in iTunes sync battleIt looks like the Apple vs Palm iTunes synching contest may have finally been resolved by Palm blinking and taking the synch request out of their phone’s operating system.

So, there’s an epidemic of hacked Macs? Not even…

September 27, 2009

By now you’ve likely heard the news that Russian hacker collectives are paying a 43-cent bounty for each comprised Mac. Scary, huh? Well, actual incidences of this behavior observed in the wild are quite rare with the scammers paying more for hacked PCs.

How to: Control your Mac with Jedi mind tricks Twitter

September 16, 2009

First things first. We need to be clear that these aren’t the droids you’re looking for and that you don’t want to sell me any death sticks. Now, before you go home to reconsider your life, let me show you a neat little piece of software you can use to remotely control your Mac and do it very fashionably at that.

PsyStar shipping ‘snow clones’

September 9, 2009

The Miami, Florida-based maker of Hackintosh computers — whitebox PCs running a hacked version of Apple’s operating system — has changed law firms, been fined for destroying evidence and even made a trip through bankruptcy court, but they have yet to run low on chutzpah.


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