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Under The Hood: Complete Guide To Building A Hackintosh [OS X 10.8.1]

Building a hackintosh — that is, installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware — used to require extremely restricted hardware choices and quite a bit of know-how. Now your options are vast and the installation process is fairly simple. With that in mind, here is our complete guide to building a hackintosh that will walk you through purchasing compatible parts, building your machine and installing OS X all on your own.

26 June 2012

Geek Out

Google Brings LEGO Blocks To Chrome, Inadvertently Kills Productivity Everywhere

Talk about a time-sink. Google Australia has today taken the covers off of Build — a browser-based experiment that lets you build over the real world with LEGO blocks using Chrome.

25 June 2012

Geek Out

This Nerf Gun Display Case Is Both Awesome And Easy To Build

If you’re anything like me, you spent the weekend raiding the Big W toy catalogue looking for cheap Nerf guns. Whether you walked away with a foam-firing pistol, bright yellow rifle or clear perspex chain gun, there’s still the question of storing your new arsenal. Try this idea from one of our awesome readers: a Nerf gun trophy case.

20 September 2011

Computing

Will Windows 8 Let You Make Phone Calls?

Will your new Windows 8 slate be a giant phone come 2012? Screens from last week’s BUILD conference seem to indicate that. How it’ll be implemented is hazy — VOIP or Windows Live notifications — but it’s a good bet Microsoft’s recently-bought Skype will be a BIG part of it.

14 September 2011

software

Everything You Need To Know About Today’s Windows 8 News

Windows 8 news is gushing forth from Microsoft’s BUILD conference up in Seattle, as the company exposes the inner workings of the latest iteration of their operating system. Here’s a look at all the latest Windows 8 news we’re seeing today.

software

Watch The Future Of Windows: Microsoft’s Build Conference Keynote

In case you were wondering when and where all was to be revealed about Windows 8, the answers “now” and “here“, respectively. You can — and should — tune in live to Microsoft’s Build conference keynote here.

29 January 2011

Computing

Roll A Powerful Media HTPC For Less Than $US500

The web is rich with streaming video, and there’s no reason you should limit yourself to enjoying it all on smaller screens. Here’s how to roll your own home theatre PC and consolidate your media centre components to one small, sleek box.

14 September 2010

Meet The TARDIS Made Of SNOT

Great Lego TARDIS. Terrible, terrible acronym.

24 July 2009

software

Windows 7 RTM Leaked On BitTorrent

It should come as no surprise—but Windows 7 Build 7600.16385, which Microsoft deemed the RTM, has been unceremoniously leaked. A Chinese 64-bit version was first posted on torrent sites on July 16th with an English version released later that day. As always, grab at your own risk. [The New York Times]

10 July 2009

software

Guess What? It’s A New Snow Leopard Build

Build 10A402 of Snow Leopard just got pushed out to developers, and we’ll post what’s new in a second. Go ahead and download via Software Update now. [Thanks Chrisdazzo!]

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