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HowTo: Create iTunes Store Account without Credit Card/Paypal

And of course, it’s absolutely free and can be totally anonymous The iTunes Store allows you to buy songs, albums, videos, audiobooks, movies, TV Shows, etc. For me, the best thing is, over 65,000 podcast to twiddle around and, grab those nice album covers for my music collection. All looks great but before all these [...]

HowTo: Install EFI patch and Use Unmodified OS X Kernel in Hackintosh

Dream finally becomes reality: use vanilla OS X kernel on normal PCs. This might not be sth. new to some readers as the patch was initially released few days ago. The newest version as of today is v5.1, which includes various bug fixes and multiboot support.  Again, as the previous installation guide, this is also [...]

How to enable Time Machine on unsupported volumes

Backup over NAS Although we’ve been mostly happy with Leopard, one of the features we were most looking forward to was the ability to set Time Machine to use a NAS volume like Airport Disk, thus making laptop backups wireless and sexy (well, sort of sexy) instead of wired and cumbersome. Sadly, Apple cut the [...]

Howto: The Complete Mac Leopard Installation and Windows Multi-Boot Setup Guide

Install OSX Leopard on your x86 PC, dual or triple boot OSX with Windows XP/Vista. Credit goes to BraizlMac@osx86scene forum who made the original patch to make all these possible. This guide is a summing up with some  corrections. If you’ve get your Leopard running, try to add EFI capability and enjoy the vanilla kernel. This currently works [...]

HowTo: FULL 4GB RAM Utilization under Windows

Make sure your system meets all requirements to get all the 4GB, under Windows 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista. This is a quick guide and won’t involve much tech. detail. I’ll try to make it straightforward and foolproof, digging links in the article for technicality. (more after the jump)

HowTO: iPhone 1.1.1 to 1.0.2 Downgrade

It won’t downgrade the firmware, meaning so far you can’t re-unlock an iPhone that’s been 1.1.1, but it’s still 1.0.2 in all its third-party application glory. The iPhone Dev Team folks are working on a way to downgrade the new firmware to let people unlock their phones again, but for now AT&T users sitting pretty, [...]

Break in the expired Vista

Back up your data and extends “free-trail” period By default, there is a 30-day grace period for user to activate Vista, but it isn’t surprising that the user (is not able to)doesn’t want to activate it, or, he uses some kind of crack which turns invalid by Microsoft, So what to do in this case?

Associate more file extensions with WinRAR

By default, WinRAR will only associate files with extenions RAR, R00, R01 till R29, how about the rest? WinRAR switches to new name scheme for quite some time, which use part1.rar, part2.rar etc. as extensions. However, you can find lots of files, still compressed using the old name, extensions from R00 to R99(then S00 to [...]

HowTo: Install the WSv Role in Windows Server 2008 RC0

Install the Windows Server virtualization (WSv) role in Windows Server 2008 RC (Release Candidate) 0. If you want to give WSv(aka. Viridian) a whirl, you must have specific hardware capabilities. Your processor must be 64-bit, have XD/NX (eXecute Disable/No Execute) turned on, and support Intel VT or AMD-V. Further, the BIOS must support these features. [...]

HowTo: Fix The Built-in Weather Gadget in Vista

Make the gadget work in non-English Vista systems and “remember” user settings. One of the new features in Windows Vista is the Sidebar and Gadgets, which provide a handy and speedy way to retrieve various information without additional efforts. The integrated weather gadget, does look great when it works, however, might become less appealing, even [...]

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