I ran the 10.7.3 update on my Hackintosh earlier today and following that the Kakewalk update installer. Everything worked flawlessly first time. Ripper !!
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X86 Corei7 GA-EX58a Hackintosh
On February 5, 2012
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This is an older project of mine, begun in mid to late 2009… I looked into purchasing a Mac Pro though it was way beyond the available funds I had in my bank account at the time, and I needed more power… Apple had me drooling and ogling over the specs for ages… Day in Day out… Anyway… I somehow stumbled upon a blog from an IT Techy guy who had built a X86 machine that ran OS X… I looked a bit harder and found more people talking about this more and more, developing the necessary 3party software to enable this to happen on a wider variety of machines… x86.org, Hackintosh.org, TonyMac, Kakewalk, iAtkos, Chameleon and other bootloaders, kext utilities and GPU/Mobo patches and a heap and other stuff. For me – the process of building the machine and the learning curve together with the process of getting OSX up and running on my home made OSX box was and is just as important to me as the value of what my custom machine will allow me do running OSX…
My Hardware config is as Follows – This is a very safe combination to get a Hackintosh up and running – I’ve and not one KernalPanic or similar critical error since applying Lion and a few associated kernel and kext file patches.
Gigabyte GA EX58A-UD5
Intel Core i7 920 (Clocked at 2.7)
12 GB Corsair XMS DDR3 Ram UnderClocked @ 1079Mhz (1600Mhz Standard)
Nvidia Quadro FX5600 1.5 GB DDR3 Ram
1TB WD Green 3.5 In. HDD 7200rpm
500GB Hitachi Deskstar 3.5 In. HDD 7200rpm
72GB WD Raptor 3.5 In. HDD 10,000rpm
LG Blu-Ray Burner
1000W Power supply
USB BlueTooth Dongle
DangerDen Nehalem Copper Cooling Block
RAD Reservoir (+ Tygon tubing, Stainless Steel Fittings + Fesser Coolant)
Black Ice Radiator
Laing Pump
Dell U2311H 24 In. Ultra Sharp
Logitec Speakers
Apple Standard USB Keyboard
Wacom Pen & Touch
Apple Bluetooth Mighty Mouse
So now I have a Hackintosh that Pur’s like a kitten. Running Lion, CPU temp at 44C on a Summers Day… Which is about only 2/3rd’s of what my 2.2Ghz i7 MacBook Pro get’s up to on a normal day at the office. I must admit – when running Geekbench comparisons between the MBP and the Hackintosh to MBP wins over all… and has less ram…however I really doubt it has the multitasking strength of my i7 Hackintosh… or the longevity, or the updatability, and adaptability that this machine has… I can run dual GPU’s.. I can double the ram(6x4GB)… maybe even quadruple it (6x8GB), I can update the i7 Quadcore to a Intel i7 HexCore… and Mac still don’t support BluRay… Which is supported on my Hackintosh when burning in Toast…
Aside from Motion Graphics Designers, Animators & 3d People, If your not into development or geeky stuff you’ll probably look at Hackintosh with little interest, if you look at it at all…though if your on the other side of the fence, or your reside on both sides of the fence then you may want to give this Hackintosh thing a go… and you can for well under $500… That’s Value… I have found kakewalk.se to be very helpful along with TonyMac (google or bing it), X86.org & osx86.net.
Carrier Locked, iOS 5.0.1 iPhone4 Upgrade with preserved baseband
On February 4, 2012
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Ok, So I bought a Mexican iPhone4… New in the box, and carrier locked to Tecel, a Mexican Telco. It shipped with a version of iOS, from rough memory something like 4.3.5…with the 4.10 baseband.. at first I thought I had bought a brick… though after a while successive versions of various Jailbreaks were beng released… Green Poison, UltraSn0w, RedSn0w pwnage tool etc… (and buying the gevey sim ultra+ from apple+berry helped quite a bit in unlocking the phone) …I did a bit of reading around the the net and watched a youtube videos or two that got me what I need to know to update my iPhone4 to iOS 5… I could only update the iphone4 to iOS 5 with a preserved 4.10 baseband…so I downloaded the corresponding IPSW file and and created a custom IPSW with no baseband which would form the basis for my upgrade… I put the phone into DFU mode, and did a custom restore through iTunes (option-click restore once iphone is plugged into your mac) and that should be it… If you are like me and have a carrier locked iPhone and are using a Gevey Sim you will need to go through the steps to get the Gevey to do its thing once more…and unlock your iPhone4. You can buy a Gevey Sim from Ebay for about $5-10 .
Over the past short while…ATV2
On February 4, 2012
In AppleTV2, Development, Digital - General, iOS, Jailbreak, New Technology, Uncategorized
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When I should really have been finishing up uncompleted projects I have lying on my Workstation I have been looking into development for the AppleTV2…The little black box that came free with my Mac Laptop. When I got it sat unopened for about a month, and once it was opened it was really only used for watching the likes of Epic Meal Time repeats on YouTube… My first looking into Jailbreaking ATV2 was just after the 4.4.4 iOS update using Seas0nPass, aTV Flash(Black)(I obtained a Beta Version which worked for me, though) if you are going to do this I would advise purchasing the stable retail version for more than a few reasons. Next I installed nitoTV and from there I was able to add more software through the nitoTV link then to ‘Install Software’. You can also add repo’s just like other iDevices jailbroken with Cydia… there’s a lot of options here…
The following is what I have installed and running in my ATV2:
(from Nitotv default repos available once Jailbroken)
afc2add
open ssh
overflow
Rowmote Helper
MainMenu Weather
MainMenu Slideshow
Screensaver Settings
Exposed
VNC settings
BT Stack
Netatalk
afpfs-ng
syslogd
cycrypt
screencapture
Beigelist
ch.ringwalkd.hid.support
ch.ringwald.keyboard.support
mcspy
update be gone
nito wifi
Rowmote helper
Whatanutbar exposed
Bone for watchdog
ATV settings loader
Mainmenu Slider
unloader
Overflow tweak
Screen Capture Settings
Seat belt Toggler
tom cool sm framework
tom cool mc settings
FirecoreLLC
Couchsurfer Pro
Exposed
Last.fm
libafpclient
libdvdnav
libsmbclient
mediaplayer
Quicklook Framework
RSS
Awkward.tv
Overflow Tweak
TSS Agent
Vchip
BT Loader
BT KeyboardSupport
Google Data APi’s
io Kit Tools
After I installed all this stuff I rebooted the ATV2 (Terminal: ‘killall Lowtide’ or choose to ‘relaunch’ in the maintenance menu)
Next… I went through and set up/configured all of the new features…and rebooted again.
After I set everything up this is what my Apple TV2 now looks like…
The ATV2 now runs a Web Browser (CouchSurfer Pro), XBMC Media player (a muli-featured Media player), and a Local Share Media Browser (this will find locally shared servers, computers, or HDD’s available on on your network) as well as a weather station, some screensaver tweaks that allow feeds from Flikr, your iphoto account or from a location on the ATV2…
Following all of this Iooked into some of the various languages that with a small amount of tweaking will run on the ATV2… for all of this I thank http://www.imho.nu. There are great ‘first steps’ tutorials that get you up and running in minutes… I won’t go into any of this in detail as you can find it all at http://www.imho.nu…
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Hello and welcome to my new Digital Design Folio. I’ve keep everything as simple as possible this time around. I’m going to make an effort to Blog about various things… it has taken me a while to take to Blogging… feeling that perhaps I had little to offer… I feel I’m starting to get a little more confident with my skill set and knowledge base. Recently I have been looking app development in the Mobile realm…. I suppose every Developer/Tech type has to some extent… its by noi means a first… a first for me… so yeah.. I’ve been looking at allot of iOS tweaks, particularly with iOS5… Hopefully I’ll get to share these with you over coming posts as well.