Posted on 20th March 2014
With the latest rumors of the possible health-centric iWatch and the already available Galaxy Gear and Pebble watches, Dick Tracy would have a lot to investigate with which would be his iconic choice. Sorting out which one is the best for the real you will only get more daunting in the future as more options become available.
Posted on 15th March 2014
Running a modern Hackintosh has become fairly simple and straightforward these days. With the help of websites offering everything from installers to hardware compatibly charts, building a dream Mac is easily done. There is still a chance that something could break. It could be caused by a bad install, update, or even worse, a bad hard drive. What is fairly difficult is the fact that running hard drive diagnostics outside of a fully bootable Mac install may only allow you to test the physical drive. What about if is not a physical issue and is file system related?
That is where a great program from real Mac fame, DiskWarrior comes in to play for most. Sure, OSX has a built in drive verification utility and you could boot into single user mode and run fsck, but what if those fail? What if you can not boot into OSX at all? DiskWarrior does give you a disk image that can be booted off of, if it is a real Macintosh computer. It will not boot on non-Apple hardware. So what do you do then?
You boot to your recovery install of OSX.
Posted on 30th January 2014
One of my favorite gadgets in the last 2 years is easily the Nest thermostat. This device gives you amazing control on heating and cooling your home while trying to keep energy costs down. With it’s ability to sense when you are away and even build a schedule based on your habits, the device has grown as a huge success. Throw in their latest gadget to replace the old smoke detector, the Protect, it is no wonder why Google offered $3.2 Billion for the company.
Posted on 10th June 2013
Apple has officially announced iOS7 with a Fall 2013 release. We will look in to some of the new design changes and see what we like and dislike.
I am also interested to see if anything else comes out of WWDC before it’s end in two days.
Stay tuned…
Posted on 10th June 2013
Apple release the 10.8.4 update to it’s popular operating system a few days ago. The fixes in this version are fairly minor with no extra edits needed on the Hackintosh project. The AppleHDA driver was replaced in the upgrade, so applying the sound driver from MultiBeast was necessary to get audio to work on the on-board chipset. Download the latest version of MultiBeast here (login required).
Details on what is included in the update since 10.8.3 can be found here. The update can be downloaded through the App Store.
As always, running a system update on non-apple hardware is not always 100% bullet proof. Make sure that you have another way to boot the system if something goes wrong. Multibeast may be needed on your setup.