Category Archive: Hacking

May
22

Portal 2: Fly Glitch

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I just learned about this crazy nonsense you can do in Portal 2… it’s a glitch that literally allows you to fly through the map without using any HAXX0R1NG or other cheat codes. I put, what I saw in other vids, to a test… I think a fitting name is the “I Believe I Can …

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Apr
26

Hi, I’m a Mac! But I’m a PC!

EBIOS Read Error

A while ago, I posted instructions that enables a broad range of normal Intel-based computers to run Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The installation method I used is the one from TonyMac. The method does not require access to a Mac, no fiddling with cryptic Terminal command lines. It is by far, hands down, the …

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Mar
29

Dude where’s my 4 Gig of RAM?

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In this day and age, 4GB of RAM is not so uncommon in computers. Some new ones when you buy them, have it. But then, most of them only come with a 32-bit system. Depending on what hardware the machine has, you’ll mostly see something around 3.2-3.5 GB of RAM available. So where did the …

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Mar
16

Interesting bug in Cocoa

So in the moment I’m working on something that requires relatively smooth animations, so I figured the best way to do that is to do that with either – a timer, or super-slow drawing steps (meaning instead of moving at least 1 px in a certain amount of time, use no timer but increase pixel …

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Sep
23

Hack attack: How to make your own Hackintosh

So a while ago I came across a page that explained you how to install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on your PC. This is a very ambitious project, so I gathered some data before I actually went ahead and tried it. The short version is that I eventually succeeded. I’m typing this post from …

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Sep
22

Laptop fan control in Ubuntu Lucid

Does not work out of the box. So, quick and painless: – open /etc/default/grub (do this in a terminal: “sudo nano /etc/default/grub”) – insert GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”acpi_enforce_resources=lax” – save and close – run update-grub (do this in a terminal: “sudo update-grub”) – reboot Rejoice!

Aug
31

Lifehacking: Making a screen cooler

Admittedly, I do like the current iMac design a bit. I had a screen lying around, with which I had no idea what I should do with it. So I had the idea to take it apart and do something cool with it. To be precise, it’s a LG Flatron 19-inch widescreen. Looks like this …

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Aug
24

How to get full iOS 4 features on iPhone 3G

While I was fairly impressed at the features of the new iOS 4 for iPhone and iTouch, I was equally as PISSED that people who have older models could not avail of THE most attractive features in the new software for Apple’s mobile devices (apparently you require out-of-this-world CPU to render a wallpaper and some …

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Aug
21

Lucid Leopard

This is not a Mac.

Jul
19

Like Google Maps, only for EVE

So after I got a dynamic database running that allows you to browse through all available items in EVE, I sat down for another project. This time I wanted it to be something more epic and something that has not been done before, at least not that I know of. Pretty recently I learned about …

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