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The Complete Guide To Building A Hackintosh [OS X 10.7.3 UniBeast]

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 always up-to-date guide to building a hackintosh that will walk you through purchasing compatible parts, building your machine, and installing OS X all on your own. Thanks to a new process, it’s even easier than before.


Money

How Does The Latest ALDI PC Deal Stack Up?

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ALDI has one of its periodic Medion PC specials tomorrow — an AMD-powered desktop box with a 1TB hard drive, 4GB of RAM and Windows 7. At $499 it looks keenly priced, but could you do better elsewhere?


February 2, 2012
Communicate

RIP Aussie Tech Legend John Linton

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John Linton, the founder of one-time Aussie PC market leader Osborne and more recently of ISP Exetel, has passed away following a stroke.


January 27, 2012
Fix

Fix A Worn-Out Video Game Controller

If you have a video game controller that’s worn down so much that the buttons barely work, you can give it new life with a few small pieces of aluminium foil. All you need to pull this off is a torx scredriver (something every techie should have on hand), a hole puncher, and a bit of glue or tape.


January 18, 2012
Work

App Directory: The Best Video Card Overclocking App For Windows

Overclocking is a great way to eke a bit more gaming power out of your computer, and Windows users have quite a few tools to help them do it easily. Our favourite of the bunch is the insanely easy to use, feature-filled MSI Afterburner.


January 13, 2012
Fix

How To Properly Clean All Your Gadgets

No matter how clean a house you keep, your computers and gadgets are bound to get a little dirty over time. Here’s what you need to clean them, and how to do it without hurting them.


January 2, 2012
Work

Apple Wireless Keyboard Helper Enables Windows

Windows: If you use multiple OSes and prefer using an Apple keyboard you’ll know that many Windows key options such as PrtSc do not work in Windows. Apple Wireless Keyboard Helper is a free executable program that restores many of those keys.


December 23, 2011
Fix

A Buyer’s Guide To Hackintosh-Compatible Parts

We’ve looked at how to find the right parts for a hackintosh on your own, but now hackintosh expert tonymacx86 has posted a comprehensive list of builds and parts for creating Intel-based machines of all kinds. It includes a quite a few sample builds as well as a very helpful, long list of compatible graphics cards.


December 8, 2011
Fix

Fix Your Computer Fans For More Speed, Less Noise

If your computer is running a little loud for your tastes, it’s probably because your fans are running at full speed — even if they don’t need to be. Here are a few ways to manage your fan’s speed so they’re keeping your computer cool when they’re necessary and silent when they’re not.


October 21, 2011
Fix

Crank Up Your Laptop’s Gaming Power With An External Dock

If your laptop’s integrated graphics just aren’t cutting it for the games you want to play, you can actually connect a desktop graphics card to your ExpressCard slot with an external dock.