hackintosh explained A hackintosh is a computer that started its life as a pc and had had osx massaged onto it. This has been made possible by apple’s move to intel based machines. If a machine has a similar enough hardware profile to existing apple hardware, then it is generally possible. who should do this? …
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Hackintosh pre post – reclaiming screen real estate
Two days ago I got an HP mini 1030 netbook (1000 family) and have been working on putting the mac OS 10.5.8 on it. It seems like it ought to be the simplest thing, but there are a lot of different versions of firmware hardware and software out there that make finding the right install …
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Gmail Pop email refresher – UPDATE – now smaller and easier!
If you are wondering what we are talking about, click here to read the back story. Then come here and do it the easier way So I took my own advice and tried to find a way to send mail from the command line. This way the mail.app doesn’t keep flicking to the forefront every …
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Increase the frequency that Gmail checks your POP mail account
if you have Gmail set up to check your pop accounts they don’t let you set the polling frequency anywhere. This can be bad because it makes you go to the settings page to be able to hit the refresh button on each one of your accounts! This explains how you can fix that.