We were working quite some time on this. Now here is EPOS I. – the “EFI Post Install” Script for white-box PCs that are almost hardware compatible with Apple’s devices “EPOS I.” is an “EFI Post Install” Script What does it do? EPOS helps installing retail DVD’s of Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard on [...]
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[MacOS] EPOS I. – EFI Post Install for White-Box PCs
December 28th, 2008 
J. Epstein 
Posted in Labs, MacOS 
Tags: 10.5, Apple, autoextract, autoupdate, Boot 132, DFE, efi, EFI Post Install, EFI-X, efix, EPOS, EPOS I., Galaxy, Gigabyte, hackintosh, leopard, Mac, Munky, myMek, retail dvd, SlimBuild-Preboot, update, Vanilla Kernel, White-Box 
11 Comments »[iPhone] Issues with iPhone DFU mode in MacOS 10.5.6
December 18th, 2008 J. Epstein 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 [...]
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 »[iPhone] iPhone 3G unlocked by iPhone Dev Team
December 17th, 2008 J. Epstein The release of the 3G unlock software (currently going under the name yellosn0w) is due to december 31., 2008. The unlock will currently only available for baseband version 2.11.07 or lower. Between Chrismas and new year’s eve members of the team (planetbeing, MuscleNerd and pytey) will be giving a lecture about the security systems in [...]
Posted in News Tags: Activate, Chaos Computer Club, Hack, iPhone 3G, iPhone Dev Team, Jailbreak, Pwnage, Unlock No Comments »[Windows] Slysoft to Change Update Conditions
December 13th, 2008 J. Epstein As of January 1st, 2009 Slysoft will change update conditions for their products. Lifelong free updates will cease to be offered in favor of an annual subscription. Licenses that have been bought before 2009 are not affected and will still containt the free lifelong update feature. Until december 31st, 2008 (wednesday) Slysoft offers a special [...]
Posted in News Tags: 2.0, AnyDVD, AnyDVD HD, chrismas offer, discount, lifelong update, lifelong updates, Slysoft, subscription 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 »[Hacking] Berlin Students win “Capture the Flag” Contest
December 8th, 2008 J. Epstein The “UCSB International Capture The Flag” is a distributed, wide-area security exercise. It aims at testing the security skills of the participants. This time the organizing team around Prof. Giovanni Vigna prepped a small network, that could be accessed only via remote. The goal was first to gain access to the network and then to disarm [...]
[Games] GTA IV with heavy Issues on ATI Graphic Cards
December 4th, 2008 J. Epstein The PC version of the long awaited game Grand Theft Auto IV has yesterday been released to the european markets. First tests show the game is as outstanding as its console versions, released earlier this year. Anyway forums are full of bug reports by people using ATI based graphic cards. The game crashs even before [...]
Posted in News Tags: AMD, ATI, crash, crashs, Grand Theft Auto IV, graphic adapter, graphic card, graphics adapter, graphics card, issue, issues, Problems, radeon No Comments »[e-Biz] A Nasty Conspiracy Behind Psystar?
December 4th, 2008 J. Epstein What might sound like a conspiracy book by John Grisham is reality. Apple obviously believes that another company or even companies are secretly backing up Psystar. Groklaw.net explains that this might be an explanation why a major law firm took this case. Apple’s lawyers wrote: (..) Apple will seek leave to amend this complaint to [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, Claim, claims, Commercial, competition, Conspiracy, court, DMCA, Hack Mac, hackint0sh, hackintosh, HackMac, Law, Mac Clone, MacClone, Open Pro, OpenPro, Psystar 1 Comment »[iPhone] iPhone 3G Hardware unlocked in Vietnam
December 2nd, 2008 J. Epstein CNet.com reports Tuan Anh Do, a 29 years old business man from Hanoi, now offers hardware unlocking services for the iPhone 3G. He is owner of a couple of cell phone repair stores and he now managed to find a rather painless way to unlock the iPhone 3G and offer that as a service to [...]
[MacOS] Apple recommends using Virus Scanners
December 2nd, 2008 J. Epstein Apple has released a technical note recommending the use of Mac antivirus software. For the first time Apple admits that Macs need protection like other operating systems aswell. Apple recommends three Anti Virus solutions: Intego VirusBarrier X5 Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 11 for Mac McAfee VirusScan for Mac The open source virus scanner ClamXav is not [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple Anti Virus, Hack, leopard, Mac OS Leopard, Mac OS X, Mac OSX, MacOS, macos x, MacOSX, Protection, Virii, Viruses No Comments »[Windows] Security System of Acrobat 9 Compromised
November 30th, 2008 J. Epstein Adobe’s security implementation of their Acrobat 9 has been compromised. Unprotecting of documents whoes password have been “forgotten” is now possible because of a vulnerability in Acrobat’s security function. The russian software developers Elcomsoft found this and also integrated their findings into their APDFPR 5.0 (Advanced PDF Password Recovery). This tool can handle the security [...]
Posted in News Tags: Acrobat, Acrobat 6, Acrobat 7, Acrobat 8, Acrobat 9, Adobe, Copy, deprotect, Elcomsoft, Hack, hacked, modify, print, remove DRM, remove limitation, remove limitations, remove password, save, unprotect No Comments »[MacOS] Pushing OS X on PCs Major Steps Forward
November 29th, 2008 J. Epstein yet another incomplete news (AIN) Since David Elliot (also known as DFE) showed the OS X on PC scene how to boot Leopard Retail DVDs on non EFI systems (=standard PCs) using his „Boot 132 CD“ there is even more strong progress – OS X is technically almost completely untied from a Macintosh computer. Based [...]
[MultiPlatform] Microsoft Live Mesh Beta now online
November 27th, 2008 J. Epstein Live Mesh is part of Microsoft’s new online activities. In contrast to Apple’s MobleMe it concentrates on syncing files and folders from different PCs and Macs. It currently does not include syncing of addressbook entries, calendars or mails. Anyway Live Mesh is free. Microsoft offers 5GB harddisk space that can be accessed using their Live [...]
[Games] GTA 4 for PC – Release in December
November 20th, 2008 J. Epstein Rockstar Games eventually releases Grand Theft Auto 4 for the PC gaming community. December 2nd, 2008 will be the day when people will raid over gaming stores all over the world. It is for sure that this game will be the megaseller in december as it has proved for the console gamers in may. In [...]
Posted in News Tags: Grand Theft Auto, Grand Theft Auto 4, Grand Theft Auto IV, GrandTheftAuto, GTA, GTA 4, ingame, PC, Requirements, Screenshot, Screenshots, Video, Vista, Windows, XP 1 Comment »[iPhone] Venezuelan iPhone 3G Hack is Fake
November 19th, 2008 J. Epstein The spanish speaking blog Maczalandia reported some days ago that a venezuelan team around the hacker Gabo managed to hack the 3G iPhone. After having examined the custom firmware provided by the team, the iPhone Dev Team found this is a fake. The custom ipsw is usable with 2G iPhones only and… has… been prepared [...]
[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 »[Microsoft] MSN Germany to launch free Movie portal
November 16th, 2008 J. Epstein The future of video-on-demand seems to begin soon. Microsoft Germany announced to launch their MSN Movie Portal. Launch date is set to November 17th, 2008 (monday) – means tomorrow. About hundred movies, TV-series and animations Microsoft will be offered for free watching. As like private TV channels MSN will apply commercial breaks every ten minutes. [...]
Posted in News Tags: Commercial, Deutschland, Film, Filme, Germany, Microsoft, MSN, Serie, Video-On-Demand, Werbefinanziert, Werbeunterbrechung, Werbung No Comments »[Microsoft] Microsoftstore launched
November 16th, 2008 J. Epstein Microsoft is entering the online world rapidly. Microsoft products are available for download online as of now in selected countries – aka the largest markets. The store is available in the following countries: U.S.A., U.K., Germany and Korea. More countries to come soon. Prices seem fairly the same like when buying the retail versions. At [...]
[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] Parallels Desktop 4.0 released
November 12th, 2008 J. Epstein Virtualization technologies on the Mac operating system reach a new step. Parallels Desktop’s most exciting feature that has been added is the possibility of virtualizing Mac OS Leopard Server and even Mac OS Snow Leopard. More new features: iPhone support: start, stop and manage Windows virtual machines from the iPhone Anti Virus and Firewall: includes [...]