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So what happened to the Apple Challenge?

Image via Wikipedia It’s been roughly a year since I lost my faith in the Free Software Foundation. I’d long since been annoyed by juvenile derogatory names like the “Swindle” being used to refer to Amazon’s Kindle and place it on the same level as calling a certain Redmond company “Micro$oft.” While that was enough [...]

Hackintosh Mini 9: A bit better than a late G4

Image by rblock via Flickr I’ve now had enough time to come to an evaluation of my hackintosh. I used it exclusively for a month and upgraded it from 10.5.6 to 10.5.7. I’ve taken it through full charges battery charges by working at school with wifi. I’ve carried it around in my jacket pocket. My [...]

Saving space in OS X and other netbook tips

Update April 3rd 2009: Added the section on removing the hibernate image. Saved me 2 GB. My place is under renovation right now so I’m spending the next week either on couches or on a matress on the floor. When I’m borrowing room like this I need to conserve space so I took my hackintosh [...]

Apple OS X Leopard on a Dell Inspiron Mini 9

As of this writing the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 is the most compatible with Leopard out of all the netbooks. You can install from a retail copy and just about everything works. Here’s a few tips.

iPod: to levy or not to levy? (or, I want my private copying)

Remember the levy that was collected on ipods, then refunded, then argued over? It might be coming back according to a decision by the Copyright Board of Canada. The decision may still be appealed. Again, Michael Geist has the story. The decision continues by stating that this interpretation is consistent with the intent of the [...]

Hey iPhone, please disrupt Canada!

Brought to you from the Linux Caffe! (Linux Caffe pic #1, Linux Caffe pic #2, Linux Caffe #3) There has been no news from Apple Canada related to the Apple iPhone. Since the phone is GSM only there’s just one network where it can work: the Rogers network. This leaves Fido the only other possible [...]