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Access Any Country Restricted Website

1 Comments | Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Step by step guide to configuring Windows, Mac or a DD-WRT router to connect to a VPN service such as OverPlay for private, anonymous and secure browsing. Watch US or UK TV from other countries.

Create Bootable USB Thumb Drive From ISO Image File (Windows)

12 Comments | Monday, July 25th, 2011

Step by step guide to creating a bootable USB thumb drive from on ISO image file on Mac OSX using just Disk Utility and Terminal apps.

Create Bootable CD From ISO Image File

6 Comments | Monday, December 13th, 2010

Step by step guides on creating a bootable CD drive from an ISO image file for Windows XP, 7 & Mac OSX.

Create Bootable USB Thumb Drive From ISO

23 Comments | Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

Step by step guide to creating a bootable USB thumb drive from on ISO image file on Mac OSX using just Disk Utility and Terminal apps.

OSX Terminal Slow To Launch

5 Comments | Monday, December 6th, 2010

OSX Terminal can become unbearably slow to launch and show the prompt after a while. It’s believed that this is due to an excessive build up of log files in OS X. This article discusses how to clear those log files and how to prevent it happening in the future.

HOWTO: Change Mac OS X’s Default Spelling Dictionary Language

3 Comments | Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Change the Mac OS X default spellcheck/spelling dictionary language with this step by step guide.

VPN (IPSec) Prompting For Saved Password

5 Comments | Monday, February 22nd, 2010

You are prompted to enter your VPN password every time you try to connect to your IPSec VPN connection. This happens even if you have saved the password in your Mac OS X keychain.

iSlate.com Domain – Owned By Apple?

1 Comments | Monday, January 11th, 2010

iSlate.com: Does it belong to Apple? – An investigation into the registrar of this domain name that seems likely to point towards apple.com very soon.

VPN Server Could Not Be Found

1 Comments | Monday, October 26th, 2009

You get the error message: “The VPN server could not be found. Verify the server address and try reconnecting.” when trying to connect to an IPSec VPN server. on Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard.

Cannot Connect To Windows 2003 Share

0 Comments | Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

SOLUTION: Error “Cannot connect to server because user’s name or password are not correct” when trying to connect to a Windows 2003 Server shared resource from Mac OS X

Download: IOSDHCIBlockDevice.kextfc1.zip

1 Comments | Monday, October 12th, 2009

This file will enable the Card Reader on Acer Aspire One to read SD Cards when running Mac OS X.

Download: ShutdownSound.zip

1 Comments | Monday, October 12th, 2009

ShutdownSound.zip is used to prevent Mac OS X getting a kernel panic on Shutdown when running on battery power on Acer Aspire One.

Change Secure Empty Trash on Snow Leopard

6 Comments | Friday, October 9th, 2009

SOLUTION: Configure OS X to Empty the trash normally.

“New from Clipboard” Not Working – Snow Leopard

14 Comments | Friday, October 9th, 2009

SOLUTION: Since upgrading to Snow Leopard the “New from Clipboard” feature is greyed out or unavailable. Here’s how to fix it.

Download: Extra.zip

1 Comments | Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Download Extra.zip for Mac OS X Bootable USB Thumb Drive on non-Apple hardware.

Download: PC_EFI V10.1 Bootloader

3 Comments | Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

The PC_EFI V10.1 Bootloader is used to fix boot problems when attempting to boot from a USB Thumb drive using Chameleon.

Diablo’s iDeneb Tools

4 Comments | Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Download Diablo’s iDeneb Tools

Download: osx86tools

0 Comments | Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Download osx86tools | This free tool was developed by PCWiz Computer as a Do-It-All tool to handle a lot of the tricky terminal commands on a Hackintosh computer.

Download: Chameleon OS X Bootloader

1 Comments | Sunday, October 4th, 2009

Download Chameleon | Really great OS X bootloader but not for those who suffer allergic reactions when confronted with complicated Terminal commands.

Download: Perian

1 Comments | Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Download Perian | The “Swiss-army knife for Quicktime”. This open source utility is basically a wrapper that incorporates a multitude of codecs for Quicktime for Mac.