Yes it is true. The “XMBC on OS X” project maintains a version solely for OS X. It is running quite stable and look well known from my beloved XBox. It seems like the x264 implementation is a lot faster than the one inside VLC. But on the other hand XBMC has for instance issues [...]
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[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 [...]
[MacOS] Enable and Disable Hibernation
March 14th, 2008 alexander OSX supports real hibernation not only that sleep mode that costs electricity. It really supports it. But you gotta enable or disable it manually. So what to do: open terminal window (I assume you’re logged in with your normal user account) to disable hibernation, and enable standard sleep enter this: sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 [...]
[MacOS] Change Time Machine’s Backup Intervalls
March 14th, 2008 alexander We all know Time Machine is handy (at least since update 10.5.2 which fixed tons of issues). But one thing is not very handy: we usually cannot change the intervall of the backups. Before I will show you a simple solution please do me the favor to tell me: Do the following (I assume you’re [...]
[MacOS] Read HFS+ Drives and DMG Images on Windows
March 9th, 2008 alexander english As a dualbooter you are often confronted with the problem that you just saved a file on the other system. While being on OS X this is not a too big problem since you can at least access those NTFS (read only) and Fat32 (read/write support) drives. But being confronted with Microsoft Windows you [...]
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Tags: HFS Explorer, MacDrive, Microsoft Windows, OSx86, Read HFS Drives 
No Comments »[MacOS] Enable Quartz Extreme 2D
March 8th, 2008 alexander english T_h_e___f_a_s_t___w_a_y open terminal enter: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Quartz2DExtremeEnabled 1 By the way: you may find this command on the net aswell: sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Quartz2DExtremeEnabled -boolean YES – it does perfectly the same like the first command and is only a matter of taste! then reboot and be happy. There is also [...]
[MacOS] Experiences with Sapphire ATI HD 2600XT 256MB (Device ID 9588)
March 8th, 2008 alexander Abstract After having had too much hazzle with the Gigabyte ATI x1650 (Device ID 71c6) I decided to buy a new graphics card. What made me buy that ATI (or in general an ATI card) again? Quartz Extreme 2D is mostly supported with ATI cards (see here how to do it) ATI mostly support natively [...]
[MacOS] Update to MacOS X 10.5.2 fails – One solution here
February 24th, 2008 alexander english So guys as written here on “Incomplete-News” there have been several cases in which the way Netkas described did not work and the system crashed after reboot again and again. To get into more detail: after having done all the steps Netkas described here your system hangs and it doesn’t matter what you do [...]
[MacOS] HowTo Update to MacOS X 10.5.2
February 16th, 2008 alexander Update: 02.07.2008 Update 10.5.4 is out now, read our notes here. Update: 01.06.2008 Update 10.5.3 is out now, read our instructions here. Abstract As most of you know Netkas is constantly working on the EFI Emulation for standard PC-Bios based motherboards. As of now you can even use the Software Update (auto-update feature) included in [...]
[MacOS] Rechner mit ATI x1650 Radeon Karten
February 14th, 2008 alexander update: don’t use it. It seems only applicable to 10.5.1 !!! english: As many guys of you know the “Apple Mac OS X” can be installed on normal PCs. No matter if they are AMD or INTEL based. Of course best results will be obtained by using hardware that is “close to Mac”, like INTEL [...]