Cool Hack: Running Leopard on an MSI Wind UMPC

Mac owners often look on with envy at the Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) in the Windows world. These are truly tiny laptops, often with 10″ or smaller displays and weights that manufacture a MacBook Air seem downright obese by comparison.

MoDaCo network founder and Microsoft MVP Paul O’Brien decide…

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Flickr Find: Macintosh on Nintendo DS

While browsing Flickr that afternoon, we came across a shot of a Nintendo DS running Macintosh System 6 in emulation on reader Ken Fager’s Flickr stream. Of course, we contacted him to ask how he did it. Here’s what he had to say.

First, grab a DS flash card and install MiniVMacDS onto its ro…

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ZDNet Mac Pro and Xserve overclocking tool

One area that the Mac has faraway lagged behind its PC counterparts is in custom tuning, particularly overclocking. With the Intel Macs that has naturally started to change, though the toolset for overclocking in OS X has been rather barebones. So it’s interesting to see that the German division…

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Use a Red Bull can as a radio interference shield

I love the iPhone, save for one thing. It sits on my desk every night, right near my computer, and the speakers I’ve got hooked up to it. And every 15 minutes, when the iPhone checks e mail for me, I get that buzzing — the sound of radio interference flying across my speaker wires. And nearly e…

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Mod: use your MacBook Air Superdrive on any machine

If you’ve got a MacBook Air SuperDrive and you’ve been hankering to use it with other computers (Mac or PC), tnkgrl by at tnkgrl Mobile has a solution. With a $9 part and some intestinal fortitude, you too can prepare your MBA Superdrive universally compatible.

Using the drive with other comp…

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Run Spore Creature Creator on unsupported GMA 950 Macs

Quite a few users were frustrated to discover that the recently released Spore Creature Creator won’t run on Macs with Intel GMA 950 integrated graphics (basically older Mac minis and MacBooks). An enterprising TUAW reader has come up with a solution. Clancy posted the following directions:

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EFiX USB dongle for installing OS X on a regular PC

A while back the Mac web was abuzz about Psystar, the first commercially available hackintosh. Now comes EFiX, an USB dongle that will supposedly allow you “to install Mac OS X straight from the original DVD [onto a regular PC] without having to anguish about patches, replacing files and anythin…

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