Crawl inside the skin of Snow Leopard [Hidden features]

Crawl inside the skin of Snow Leopard [Hidden features]

I’m a tinkerer by heart. I love to fine tune my gadgets and software until they break — then I do it all over again. Nature of the beast I guess. Mac OS X has usually been a rather simple more simplistic OS in that without help from 3rd parties, it is generally pretty involved to make any system tweaks. It doesn’t matter if you actually don’t know how or don’t have time, I’m sure if a solution existed to drastically reduce your time...

Quad-core Macbook Pro’s coming soon, very soon?

Quad-core Macbook Pro’s coming soon, very soon?

Oh the geek inside of me is giddy. News of quad-core mac’s are starting to trickle forth thanks to two new Macbook Pro model numbers referenced in the latest Snow Leopard 10.6.2 build seeded to devs. Such an update isn’t too far from reality as the last update bestowed upon these mobile workhorses was way back in June at the Worldwide Developers Conference. An update must be close if the Macbook Pro’s are to remain near the top of the heap. All fingers...

Apple giving up on ZFS?

Apple giving up on ZFS?

Those looking forward to a new storage format for OS X will be sorely disappointed. ZFS which was to be the successor to the current HFS+ sometime down the road appears to have been shelved indefinitely. As 9to5 Mac highlights a comment from...

Windows 7 and Boot camp not on talking terms. For now.

Windows 7 and Boot camp not on talking terms.  For now.

Reports out of Cupertino are showing that Windows 7 junkies looking to have the latest and greatest dual-booting machine will have to wait until dear old Saint Nick pays them a visit. According to Apple, current versions of Boot Camp do not support Windows 7. Instead, dual-booting hopefuls will have to wait until “the end of this year” as well as sport a Snow Leopard equipped computer. One other stinging realization is that first gen Intel machines spanning 9...

Intel a Hackintosh supporter?

Intel a Hackintosh supporter?

My my. It’s only against the law if you’re under the law. Sound familiar? Ever experience double standards in play? Apparently Intel is a supporter of not only double standards, but hacking as well. Check out the image above and focus on the left. While Intel was busy showing off “Light Peak”, their 10Gbps optical interconnect technology geared towards mobile devices, one particularly interesting thing they didn’t highlight was the cute...

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