According to forum reports the iPhone DFU mode, which is required to install custom firmware with PwnageTool, does not get detected properly after updating Mac OS X to 10.5.6. That means you cannot Jailbreak or Unlock the iPhone currently. The iPhone Dev Team has investigated in to this issue and comes to the conclusion that [...]
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[iPhone] Issues with iPhone DFU mode in MacOS 10.5.6
December 18th, 2008 
J. Epstein 
Posted in iOS, MacOS, News 
Tags: DFU, iPhone, issue, issues, Mac Book, Mac Book Pro, Mac iMac, Mac OS X, MacBook, MacBookPro, MacPro, Problem, Problems, PwnageTool, QuickPwn 
No Comments »[MacOS] Switcher’s Hints 1001: Moving Cursor in Terminal
December 8th, 2008 J. Epstein Mac OS has the wonderful feature that it’s got a BSD compatible Unix enviroment called Darwin as the basis. You can get to it by simply starting the terminal. Once getting used to it you even install Cygwin to your Microsoft Windows installation because it simply is a powerful way of controlling your computer. Anyway [...]
Posted in Labs, MacOS Tags: Berkeley Software Distribution, BSD, Darwin, Jump on console, left jmp, Linux, Mac OS X, Terminal, unix, word by word jump No Comments »[MacOS] Switcher’s Hints 1001: Most Helpful Shortcuts
November 16th, 2008 J. Epstein Mac OS is much more depending on mouse commands than Microsoft Windows. Anyway there are some shortcuts that make your switcher’s lives easier. Key Meaning Cmd-Tab change between programs (not between windows) Fn-F9 thumbnail overview of all windows Alt-Cmd-Esc kill programs instantly Shift-Cmd-3 screenshot of whole screen (saves on desktop) Shift-Cmd-4 select part of the [...]
Posted in Labs, MacOS, News Tags: Kill Program, leopard, Mac OS, most helpful shorts, MS Windows, Shortcuts 1 Comment »[MacOS] Switcher’s Hints 1001: Change the Dock to 2D
November 14th, 2008 J. Epstein You don’t like the Dock in 3D? You like it in 2D but sadly this is available only if you put the Dock to the left or the right side of the screen? There is a simply command that can help you :-) Changing the Dock to 2D Just open a terminal and do the [...]
Posted in Labs, MacOS, News Tags: Change Dock, Dock 2D, Dock 3D, How To, leopard, Mac OS X, Revert Dock, Terminal No Comments »[MacOS] Save your Data after EFI-X Crash
October 28th, 2008 J. Epstein I. Abstract Imagine the following situation. You are very keen on this EFI-X device that’s now on sale. So you order a testing device. Some days later the device arrives from Taiwan. Your EFI-X compliant system already kept waiting with a blank SATA 250GB on a Gigabyte EP35-DS3. After having plugged the EFI-X module to [...]
[MacOS] Using CrossOver to run UltraEdit
September 25th, 2008 J. Epstein I. Abstract Many of us are nowadays using different operating systems almost at the same time. At work most of us use Windows machines, at home we use a Mac, coexisting with a Windows Laptop. Although we really like the Mac eco system, from time to time we find out we’re missing something from the [...]
Posted in Labs, MacOS Tags: BBEdit, CrossOver Games, Crossover Mac, Editor, Ian D. Mead, Mac, Textmate, Ultra Edit, UltraEdit, Windows 9 Comments »[MacOS] HowTo Update to MacOS X 10.5.4
July 2nd, 2008 J. Epstein Abstract Just four weeks ago Apple released update 10.5.3. It seems it didn’t hold too long, since 10.5.4 has been released two days ago. Features of 10.5.4 include Apple’s recent security updates, RAW image support for many cameras, Airport bugfixes, iCal bugfixes, Safari bugfixes, Spaces and Exposé bugfixes (read all details here). To sum things [...]
[MacOS] Root Exploit in Apple Remote Desktop (ARD)
June 21st, 2008 J. Epstein Update 26.06.2008: read latest news about this exploit here… Abstract Intego reports (read details here) a “bug” in Apple’s Remote Desktop (ARD) application. In short: the ARD Agent runs AppleScripts always with root privileges. Now, when you put shell-commands into that AppleScript they are executed as “root”. ARD doesn’t require any admin/root password to do [...]
Posted in Labs, MacOS, News Tags: Apple Remote Desktop, ARD, osascript, Permissions, Privileges, Remote Management 1 Comment »[MacOS] HowTo Update to MacOS X 10.5.3
June 1st, 2008 alexander Update 02.07.2008: MacOS X 10.5.4 is out now. See our notes here. I. Abstract Three days ago (May, 28th) Leopard update 10.5.3 has been released. It solves several security issues and application issues (read details here). So sumed up: you should update. Being on a Hackint0sh we need to take some things into consideration because [...]
Posted in Labs, MacOS Tags: 10.5.3., Combo Update, DMG, hackint0sh, hackintosh, How To, Howto, Mac OS X, netkas, tutorial, while script 2 Comments »[MacOS] Integrate Mac Address Book into Thunderbird
May 25th, 2008 alexander I. Abstract Mozilla Thunderbird 3 alpha has been released on May 13th. It’s got a wonderful (terrible) working title: “Shredder Alpha 1″. Anyway, there are two features that we Mac users definitly appreciate to read: Thunderbird’s address book is now compatible with OS X’s system Address Book. Thunderbird now is a native Cocoa application… Well [...]
[MacOS] Locate Command fails in Terminal mode
May 16th, 2008 alexander I. Abstract Users coming from Linux/Unix esteem the locate command, since it is fast and helps configuring and finding the appropriate files on our systems. Apple decided to implement this command a little disregardful. When executing the locate command you will most likely earn errors. The following will show you how to configure the locate [...]
[MacOS] Switcher’s Hints 1001: Unpack .mpkg and .pkg
May 15th, 2008 alexander There is nothing special about unpacking an .mpkg or .pkg installer – in terminal mode you see they are just directories. Just right click on them and select “show archive contents”… Later on 7-zip will help you with unpacking the contained archives inside of those .mpkg and .pkg files… If that helped you well, consider [...]
[OSX86] Switcher’s Hints 1001: Change File Associations
April 15th, 2008 alexander english deutschsprachige Version: hier klicken All of us know how to change the standard file associations in Microsoft Windows, but recently we switched to a Mac and Boom – everything is almost the same, but there are minor to major differences. Like changing the program to open a specific file type (like Adobe’s Portable Document [...]
[MacOS] Scrolling your MacBook like iPhone
April 10th, 2008 alexander english The two finger scrolling in OS X is just fantastic. I would never like to miss it ever again. Always when I use a normal PC Laptop I wonder why two finger scrolling doesn’t work. I wonder how long it takes for the other Laptop manufacturers to copy that feature and integrate in their [...]
[MacOS] Flags and Parameters for OSX86′s Darwin Bootloader
April 1st, 2008 alexander This is for the matter of completeness of my own records. You will find this on many places on the net, prolly not that well documented ;-) Anyway, the following flags and parameters may be put into Darwin before bootprocess: flag / parameter meaning -f Force rebuild extensions cache -v Verbose booting shows debug information [...]
[MacOS] Update Information about Files and Folders
April 1st, 2008 alexander english Ever had the situation that you just copied a specific file to a folder but it won’t show up in the finder? Yes? Well more than once should be the typical answer. Don’t let crappy finder decide when to update your view. Just install Rainer Brockerhoff‘s “Nudge” and update the view in the finder [...]
[MacOS] Switching Windows inside of Applications
April 1st, 2008 alexander English Deutsche Übersetzung weiter unten… All of us switchers know the situation: rather that switching from one application to another in Microsoft Windows we can switch from every window to another using ALT-TAB. The problem is such behaviour is not known to the Mac world. A major solution for that problem comes from Peter Maurer. [...]
[MacOS] Settings for ASUS P5LD2 VM DH incl. Sleep Mode
March 22nd, 2008 alexander So guys you have bought an “ASUS P5LD2 VM DH” motherboard because it was suggested to be working, but something does not work. The following article will show you how to configure the BIOS to make Leopard 10.5.2 working with its vanilla stock kernel. Before starting over please do me the favor and tell me: [...]
[MacOS] Solutions to Issues with Leopard Graphics Update 10.5.2
March 16th, 2008 alexander I got to know this issue for the first time when I installed a clean Leopard 10.5.1 to my HackMac and then upgraded like Netkas recommends. Since I remembered the old Tiger times and my bunch of problems with my x1650 ATI (read some hints for the ATI x1650 here), I decided to reinstall the [...]
[MacOS] Install Leopard from .dmg Image to your System
March 16th, 2008 alexander This time we’re gonna install Leopard from a .dmg image instead from DVD. The purpose is having a repair and recovery system by the hand in case you need it. My story is this: after having had a clean install of Leopard finished and having had applied all the updates, my MBP simply crashed again [...]