I wanted to write a big thank you to the incredibly huge moron at the Apple Store in the Gateway mall in downtown Salt Lake City, for telling me last Monday,  "Oh you don't need to order the snow leopard upgrade on line to get it for $9.95, you can just come in on Friday and pick it up, since you live colose to the store that will be easier for you". So Friday after school and skipped down to the Apple Store with a huge smile on my face anticipating the moment I had that disk in the clutches of my hands.  Alas, like a child learning Santa Claus is not real I heard these dreadful words after I said, "one copy of snow leopard please".  "That will be $29.99" then the women helping candidly explained that the $9.95 deal is only available online, and that the sales rep who told me that must have been misinformed.  So instead of loading the new OS (yes a new OS, because it is and if you want to call it an expensive service pack then you better be willing to call MS Win 7 a very very expensive service pack, but ...

Apple announced yesterday the release date for the newest installment of Mac OS X (10.6): Snow Leopard, and it is for this Friday. Apple is always quick to release the operating systems, surprising consumers and giving little reason for them to slow down their shopping for new hardware. This OS upgrade will only cost $29 for a single users license, and $49 for a family pack. This is an incredible price for any OS. But there is a catch or two! One, Snow Leopard is only an upgrade for Leopard (Mac OS 10.5), so you need make certain you already have leopard, if you happen to be still running Tiger, than you are looking at $160 upgrade (Leopard is $130). The other catch is that Snow Leopard is only available for Intel based machines. This is where Apple is making the cut for all PowerPC Macs. So if you are not running Leopard, or using a PowerPC, you may not be as excited as others are for this release. Now before any Windows lovers (I know they are rare but they do exist) come and crash your dreams by saying "Apple is making you pay for a service pack," know this: Snow ...

Word on the street from a few developers that Apple has released version 3.1 OS to select developers.  Question is what will it be?  I can tell you this, it is not for MMS, it is already built into 3.0 it is the carrier file that needs updating.  I had my carrier file updated and am running MMS on my 3G and it is fully functioning.  I don't really think it is for bug fixes, when they do bug fixes they release them as 3.0.1 or such.  My guess would be they are doing it to patch the hole that allows ultrasn0w to work to unlock phones or to undo jailbreaks, but even then they usually name them 3.0.1 and such.  It could be to improve battery life, some have suggested they are putting voice command and video recording for the 3G (but I seriously doubt it, that is not Apple's style).  Other than that I have no idea, but if I get my hands on a developer copy of the 3.1 I will install and give everyone an update.  For now we will wait in suspense.

Ever since Lifehacker did a post on a standard PC running OSx86, I've been amazed at how fast the community has progressed. After buying a new laptop a few months (and discovering Keynote), I decided the time was right to do a dual-boot of Windows 7 and OSX. Why Build A Hackintosh Obviously, we all have our reasons for wanting to do this. My reason is pretty simple - because I can. I guess I have a hacker mentality, but I want to do this out of sheer curiosity. Malmborg, on the other hand, is unhappy that his work took his Macbook away and gave him a Dell, and he wants to get back to his productive ways. Whether you plan on dual-booting OSX with Windows, or you want to make this your default operating system is up to you. I will be explaining the do's and dont's of installing the software so you can be more informed on the process. The Legal Bit Installing the software is more complicated than just using a regular Leopard install disc on your computer. You will need to go to a torrent site to download one of the many OSx86 releases available, and because of this  there ...

I know the last post was a little anti-iPhone, but there are many people out there who rely on unlocked iphones so knowing there will be a 3.0 unlock will be of great relief to many.  A lot of people upgraded their phones to the 2.30.03 baseband and your phones became locked and unusable, well now for all who have been waiting the wonderful Dev-Team has found a hole in the new 3.0 baseband 04.26.08 that will be unlock-able and this Friday they will release it.  Not much news has been reported about how the unlock works and that is because they want to be careful not to release too much info so Apple can’t fix the hole.  The Dev-Team is an amazing group and deserves much thanks because they have made iPhones usable and much more productive, so jump to the link and check out the video and maybe even send some love to the Dev-Team.  They do this all for free and enjoy notes of how helpful their work is.  The jailbreak will be available shortly since it is midnight and the official 3.0 release should be out now, so if you have AT&T feel free to jailbreak, ...