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How to Build a Hackintosh Mini for a Less Expensive, Faster Mac

How to Build a Hackintosh Mini for a Less Expensive, Faster Mac
We've shown you how to build a Hackintosh with enough power to rival a Mac Pro, but for those of you who want a still powerful Mac on a budget you can build a Hack Mini. We'll show you what you need to build it and walk you through the entire OS X installation. UPDATE: Check out this updated option if you want an Ivy Bridge-based Hack Mini. For help building it, consult our always up-to-date guide to building a hackintosh. Hackintoshing used to be a complicated process, but since Hackintosh expert tonymacx86 came around it's gotten a lot easier. What You'll Need At the time of this writing, the parts necessary for this build came to a total of $599.65. Gigabyte GA-H55N-USB3 Motherboard $104.99 Note: If you're like me and don't need an optical drive, don't try to build this machine without one. Another note: The VGA port on your video card isn't going to work. Total cost: $587.94 Once you've got all the hardware in hand, you'll need to assemble your computer. Installing Mac OS X 10.6

UBCD for Windows Mechanical Keyboard Guide - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net Terminology First, it's worth noting that modern keyboards use a matrix to detect when keys are pressed. This is required so each individual key (of which there may be over 100) doesn't need to be connected to the board controller separately. Ghosting The event when two keys on the board are pressed, and a third key that you didn't press is triggered. Key Blocking The event when maximum key rollover is reached and the computer doesn't register certain keys that are pressed. This can be a little hard to comprehend, so consider this example: Imagine the keys Q, W and E are set up on the board so that if you press Q and W then E might is triggered due to ghosting. Key Rollover (#KRO & NKRO) NKRO is the ideal rollover for a keyboard, no ghosting or key blocking issues and any number of key combinations can be used at the same time. Note that despite the precise definition, there are two different versions of NKRO, true NKRO and simulated NKRO. Inputs Advantages: Disadvantages:

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Chat with Your Friends through ms dos Command Prompt -: Chat with Friends through ms dos Command Prompt :- 1) All you need is your friend's IP Address and your Command Prompt. 2) Open Notepad and write this code as it is.....! @echo off :A Cls echo MESSENGER set /p n=User: set /p m=Message: net send %n% %m% Pause Goto A 3) Now save this as "Messenger.Bat". 4) Open Command Prompt. 5) Drag this file (.bat file) over to Command Prompt and press Enter. 6) You would then see something like this: 7) Now, type the IP Address of the computer you want to contact and press enter You will see something like this: 8) Now all you need to do is type your message and press Enter. ShareThis

Black Hat: Square Credit-Card Reader Hacked! The handy Square reader lets any iPhone function as a credit card reader. Experts at Black Hat showed that it can also be used to skim credit card data. The Square reader makes any iPhone into a credit card reader. Set up an account with Square and you can take credit card payments, and the reader comes free with your account. It's a great thing for craft vendors and other small-scale merchants. And it's perfectly secure… isn't it? Adam Laurie (also known as Major Malfunction) and Zac Franken of Aperture Labs wondered just how secure such a thing could be. The pair wrote a simple PC-based tool to record the credit card sound and play it back on demand. This hack also allowed them to effectively pull cash from a gift card that officially can't be used for cash. The hack poses no risk to users of the Square service. In addition, this hack doesn't really demonstrate a weakness with Square.

How To Prepare a Mac For Sale How To Prepare a Mac For Sale Friday, 14 November 2008 • Permalink It’s time to upgrade your Mac, and you’re thinking about selling your old one. Over the years, I’ve sold many Macs, and I’ve created a set of steps to follow (and learned a few tricks) along the way that I’d like to share. Following these steps will let you sleep a bit better at night and has the added benefit of creating a great first-experience for the buyer. Step One: Back It Up Before you delete, reformat, or reinstall, back up your data. Fortunately, there are lots of ways to backup your Mac. Whatever method you use, just make sure you backup, copy, or clone your data before you reformat and ship your Mac to its new home. Step Two: Deauthorize It Since publishing this article, I’ve been reminded by a number of people that it’s a good idea to deauthorize iTunes. Deauthorizing a computer allows you to manage which computers can play music, videos, audiobooks, or other content purchased from the iTunes Store.

PASSWORD HACKING Need to hack someone’s Facebook password? Well, you’re at the right place! In this post I’ll show you some of the possible ways to hack Facebook password. Also, at the end of this post, I will be discussing Read More This post will show you how to hack Windows administrator password at times when you forget it or when you want to gain access to a computer for which you do not know the password. Read More As we all know, Windows stores most of the passwords which are used on a daily basis, including instant messenger passwords such as MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Windows messenger etc. Read More MySpace being one of the world’s largest social networks, has become today a favorite place for many to maintain secret relationships and exchange cheating messages. Read More Did you know that using a keylogger is the simplest way to hack passwords?.

How to use Google for Hacking. | Arrow Webzine Google serves almost 80 percent of all search queries on the Internet, proving itself as the most popular search engine. However Google makes it possible to reach not only the publicly available information resources, but also gives access to some of the most confidential information that should never have been revealed. In this post I will show how to use Google for exploiting security vulnerabilities within websites. The following are some of the hacks that can be accomplished using Google. 1. Hacking Security Cameras There exists many security cameras used for monitoring places like parking lots, college campus, road traffic etc. which can be hacked using Google so that you can view the images captured by those cameras in real time. inurl:”viewerframe? Click on any of the search results (Top 5 recommended) and you will gain access to the live camera which has full controls. you now have access to the Live cameras which work in real-time. intitle:”Live View / – AXIS” 2. 3. “? 4.

hackhaven The 50 Best Registry Hacks that Make Windows Better We’re big fans of hacking the Windows Registry around here, and we’ve got one of the biggest collections of registry hacks you’ll find. Don’t believe us? Here’s a list of the top 50 registry hacks that we’ve covered. It’s important to note that you should never hack the registry if you don’t know what you’re doing, because your computer will light on fire and some squirrels may be injured. Prevent Windows Update from Forcibly Rebooting Your Computer We’ve all been at our computer when the Windows Update dialog pops up and tells us to reboot our computer. There’s a couple of ways that we can disable this behavior, however. Prevent Windows Update from Forcibly Rebooting Your Computer How to Clean Up Your Messy Windows Context Menu One of the most irritating things about Windows is the context menu clutter that you have to deal with once you install a bunch of applications. How to Clean Up Your Messy Windows Context Menu Stop Windows Update from Hijacking the Sleep/Shutdown Button

How to Burn Any Video File to a Playable Video DVD With your BitTorrent addiction in full swing, you've filled hard drives with media but can't seem to figure out how to burn any of the videos you downloaded to a DVD. Sound familiar? It's a common problem, and there was a time that it didn't have many simple (or free) solutions. Luckily that's no longer the case, and today we're taking a look at two dead simple solutions for burning virtually any video to a DVD you can pop into your DVD player and enjoy. DVD Flick First and foremost, there's DVD Flick, a free, open-source application that supports over 45 different file formats, includes subtitle support, and makes creating a DVD from most common (and even uncommon) video files a breeze. Free DVD Creator If DVD Flick isn't your thing, then check out Free DVD Creator. Also like DVD Flick, the Free DVD Creator wizard is dead simple to use. Got a favorite tool for burning your various videos to DVD? Free DVD Creator [via Life Rocks 2.0]

How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network. | Arrow Webzine 1.Back Track Today we’re going to run down, step-by-step, how to crack a Wi-Fi network with WEP security turned on. Dozens of tutorials on how to crack WEP are already all over the internet using this method. Seriously—Google it. Unless you’re a computer security and networking ninja, chances are you don’t have all the tools on hand to get this job done. * A compatible wireless adapter—This is the biggest requirement. * A BackTrack 3 Live CD. * A nearby WEP-enabled Wi-Fi network. * Patience with the command line. To crack WEP, you’ll need to launch Konsole, BackTrack’s built-in command line. First run the following to get a list of your network interfaces: The only one I’ve got there is labeled ra0. Now, run the following four commands. {*style:<i>airmon-ng stop (interface) ifconfig (interface) down macchanger –mac 00:11:22:33:44:55 (interface) airmon-ng start (interface) </i>*} Now it’s time to pick your network. To see a list of wireless networks around you. You’re almost there. </b>*} 3.

The 50 Best How-To Geek Windows Articles of 2010 Even though we cover plenty of other topics, Windows has always been a primary focus around here, and we’ve got one of the largest collections of Windows-related how-to articles anywhere. Here’s the fifty best Windows articles that we wrote in 2010. Want even more? You should make sure to check out our top 20 How-To Geek Explains topics of 2010, or the 50 Windows Registry hacks that make Windows better. How to Customize Your Windows 7 Taskbar Icons for Any App Would you like to change out the icons on your taskbar with a beautiful set of icons that all go together? How to Customize Your Windows 7 Taskbar Icons for Any App Change the Windows 7 Taskbar Color Sure, you can hack Windows and install a custom theme if you really wanted to, or pay for a software package to do it for you. Change the Windows 7 Taskbar Color With No Extra Software (Stupid Geek Tricks) Change Your Windows 7 Taskbar Color the Easy Way (and Rotate Between Colors) How to Crack Your Forgotten Windows Password

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