Apple’s 10.6.2 update closes lots of security holes that could be used to compromise systems. Safari, iWork, iLife, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, and some other apps are rumored to be working more reliable after updating. Apple pwns back For OSX86 users on netbooks this update is far away from being recommended at the moment. The [...]
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[MacOS] 10.6.2 Update Released – Intel Atoms Killed
November 10th, 2009 
B. Kreisky 
Posted in News 
Tags: 10.6., 10.6.2, Apple, Atom, central processing unit, CPU, crash, Dead, hackint0sh, hackintosh, Intel, Intel Atom, Kernel Panic, Kernel Panik, KernelPanic, KernelPanik, Killed, KP, Mac OS, Mac OS X, MacOSX, MSI Wind, Netbook, Processor, Reboot, Security hole, Sn0wK1tty, Snow Kitty, Snow Leopard, SnowKitty, SnowLeopard, Solution, Stellarola, update, work around, Workaround 
No Comments »[MacOS] Parallels Desktop 5 Released
November 4th, 2009 H. Frahm The virtualizing software Parallels Desktop has been updated to version 5. Besides performance optimization and 3d performance boost, the integration of a Microsoft Windows operating system into the Mac environment has been significantly improved. Parallels Desktop 5 features: integration of Apple trackpad gestures (like horizontal scrolling) into the Windows guest operating system copy and paste [...]
Posted in News Tags: 5, Aero, Crystal, Fusion, integration, Mac, Parallels Desktop, update, Upgrade, virtualisation, virtualise, Virtualization, Virtualize, VM Ware No Comments »[MacOS] Update 10.6.2 to Break Intel Atom CPU Support
November 3rd, 2009 B. Kreisky According to Stellarolla’s blog the upcoming Snow Leopard update 10.6.2 and the Leopard update 10.5.9 will most likely break Intel Atom support. Thus rendering hackintosh installations on netbooks inoperable. Although Apple does not provide products shipping with Intel Atom CPUs, the Mac OS kernel did support those. Now with the growing amount of hackintoshs it [...]
Posted in News Tags: 10.5, 10.5.8, 10.5.9, 10.6, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, Chameleon, CPU, efi, EFI-X, hackint0sh, hackintosh, Intel A, Intel Atom, leopard, macintosh, MacOS, Netbook, Netbooks, netkas, Rebel EFI, RebelEFI, Snow Leopard, Stella, Stellarolla, update No Comments »[Pre] Merry Me again: Update Reunites Palm Pre with iTunes
July 24th, 2009 J. Epstein The “little Palm Apple battle” goes into its next round. A week ago Apple released iTunes 8.2.1. This update blocked Palm Pre users from synchronizing music and movies with iTunes. We reported about this update and the technical implications of the sync feature here. Palm has now released a firmware update (webOS 1.1.0) for the [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, Battle, bug, error, Hack, issue, issues, iTunes, iTunes 8.2.1, Jon Lech Johansen, Palm, Palm Pre, Problem, Reenable, Sync, update, usb, webOS 1.1.0, Workaround No Comments »[News] Apple Bar Palm Pre from Syncing with iTunes
July 22nd, 2009 J. Epstein With the latest update of iTunes 8.2.1 Apple eventually blocks Palm Pre users from syncing with iTunes. It seems Palm knew very carefully how to emulate the iPod verification protocol of iTunes. How comes? Some major Palm Guys are former major Apple Guys One could ask Palm’s CEO Jon Rubinstein, or Palm’s SVP of Product [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, bug, DVD Jon, iPhone, issue, iTunes, John Lech Johansen, Palm, Palm Pre, Sync, Synchronizing, update 1 Comment »[iPhone] Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3 beta (Update)
April 2nd, 2009 J. Epstein We’ve been informed that a jailbreak for iPhone OS 3 beta is on doubtful trade for about 10$ (and on doubtful websites full of ads). We strongly recommend to wait with updating to 3.0 until the iPhone Dev Team has released a working solution, that also helps people maintaining the unlock possibility for the iPhone [...]
[MacOS] EPOS I. – EFI Post Install for White-Box PCs
December 28th, 2008 J. Epstein 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 [...]
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 »[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 [...]
[Windows] Kaspersky Internet Security Kills Vista 64
September 20th, 2008 J. Epstein An update that has been distributed yesterday is likely to be the cause for sudden blue screens on Windows Vista 64bit. The yesterday update forces the user to restart, but after restarting, Windows Vista64 customers report that their system would not boot anymore. Instead a blue screen of death was shown. Although the problem should [...]
Posted in Labs, News, Windows Tags: 2009, Blue Screen of Death, BSOD, bug, crash, Database, Kaspersky Anti Virus, Kaspersky Internet Security, update, Vista, Vista 64, Windows 1 Comment »[MacOS] MacOS X Leopard Update 10.5.5
September 16th, 2008 J. Epstein Finally Apple released update 10.5.5 yesterday. Features of 10.5.5 include Apple’s recent security updates, Addressbook bugfixes and lots of other fixes (read all details here). To sum things up: Apple recommends to apply this update as soon as possible. And yes we will obey. All genuine Mac users can safely update. There are no reports [...]
Posted in News Tags: 10.5.5, ALC883, Apple, AppleHDA, hackint0sh, hackintosh, leopard, Mac OS X, Mac OSX, macos x, patcher, update No Comments »[iPhone] iPhone Firmware 2.0.2 released – don’t update!
August 19th, 2008 J. Epstein We’re back. All articles should still be available. Nothing more to tell. As we expected the 2.0.1 firmware was still buggy like 2.0 and since yesterday night, Apple offers firmware 2.0.2 for iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G. They claim this firmware version solves UMTS/3G issues for iPhone 3G users. Besides that information Apple don’t tell [...]
Posted in News Tags: 2.0.2, 201, firmware, iPhone, iPhone 3G, modem firmware, Pwnage Tool, UMTS, update No Comments »[AppleTV] AppleTV gets safer… who cares?
July 11th, 2008 J. Epstein incomplete Tales… It is commonly known that Apple’s products don’t belong to the safest products in the computer industry. For quite some time now: Botnet builders are using the well known zombie technique to gain control over AppleTV to use it in botnets. This is due to AppleTV’s large market share (of about 0,5%)… Yes… [...]