Hackintosh tutorials and various other tech stuff
This guide is for upgrading your existing Snow Leopard or Lion installation to Mountain Lion on the ASUS Sabertooth P67 (though it will likely work for a lot of other boards). The method described here seems to be the “old fashioned” way of creating an OS X installer drive, but it still works. There are [...] Read more »
Disclaimer: I’m not responsible if you break your fans or fry your computer trying to do this mod. If that happens, you’re on your own. When I was picking a new case for my computer, I was trying to decide between the Corsair 500R and the 600T. One of the things I liked about the [...] Read more »
Things you’ll need: A blank CD OS X Snow Leopard Retail DVD A Core i3/5/7 processor An Account on tonymacx86.com 1. Download iBoot Legacy, UpdateHelper, and Multibeast Snow Leopard Edition from tonymacx86. 2. Burn the iBoot ISO to the blank CD and save Multibeast and UpdateHelper to another drive. 3. Reboot the computer, press F8, [...] Read more »
Before following this guide, you must have a working installation of OS X Snow Leopard on your hackintosh. You can either upgrade your existing Snow Leopard installation or do a clean install, but you’ll need Snow Leopard to prepare for the upgrade. What you’ll need: -A working copy of Snow Leopard -A copy of OS [...] Read more »
Update: I forgot to mention, this only works for the PC version of TDU 2. It does not work for the Xbox 360 version. Update: I haven’t played this game in a while, and don’t really have time to anymore. This supposedly doesn’t work with the latest updates to the game. If it’s not working [...] Read more »
I finally installed OS X on my laptop, and it runs better than I thought it would. You can thank John, who commented on my previous post, for making me want to do this. I’ve had two other AMD hackintoshes, and this is the quickest one I’ve had. However, there are a few things you [...] Read more »
Today, I found a thread on the MacRumors forums that explains how to destroy a website. This comes in handy when you find a website that you don’t like. Here’s an example: I don’t like the new iPod nano, so I changed the nano page from this:To this: I know, this is pretty useless but [...] Read more »
After a while, the default icon sets in Ubuntu got kind of boring, so I wanted to change them. It’s really easy to do, and I’ll show you how to do it without using Terminal. 1. Download the icon set you want. I’ve been getting mine from gnome-look.org. 2. Go to your home folder and [...] Read more »
Ambient lighting is a good way to help reduce eye strain caused by your computer screen when working in dimly lit rooms. Having lights behind your monitor lights up the area around it which can make the screen be less blinding. In my opinion, it looks pretty cool too. One option is the IKEA Dioder. [...] Read more »
Update: You can download the kext file using the link at the end of the post if you don’t want to follow these instructions. I finally got tired of having to manually change the sound output every time I started the computer, so I spent some time trying out different things and came up with [...] Read more »