Hijinks Inc.

Category: Apple

  • $300 Hackintosh

    This is just a concept, while the hardware should be compatible I cannot vouch for this as I haven’t built one yet. I am however planning on building one in the next few weeks after which I will post a full breakdown.

    Case: Linkworld MicroATX Mini Tower with 430W Power Supply
    Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-G31M-S2L LGA 775 Intel G31 Micro ATX
    Processor: 2.2GHz Pentium E2200 (Dual Core)
    Memory: Transcend JETRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
    Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB
    Optical Drive: Lite-On 20X DVD±R DVD Burner
    [ View prices ]

    The price of the above configuration comes to $297.94 (not including shipping and handling), you can of course save some money by switching to a slower processor, smaller hard drive, less memory, or downgrading to just a DVD drive. Also of note, this doesn’t include a licensed copy of Leopard, which adds a solid $119 to its pricetag.

  • Corkboard Mac

    Kind of a cool idea…

    Corkboard Mac

    So if you have an older PowerBook laying around and a corkboard and some push pins, why not give it a try? Or if it’s an iBook, go with the iBook server idea.

    There’s another shot of the corkboard mac on his website.

  • Security Update 2008-003

    Not only did Apple release 10.5.3 and Beta 6 of the iPhone SDK they also just released Security Update 2008-003. In traditional Apple fashion the description reads “improves the security of OS X.”

    As always the update is available through System Update.

  • OS X 10.5.3 Released

    Apple has just released Leopard 10.5.3 today, the update weighs in at 420MB.

    The 10.5.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.

  • Wormux

    I don’t know if any of you have played any of team17’s Worms series, but they’re awesome.

    Anyhow, Wormux is an open source equivalent available for OS X (as well as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, and also available in a bootable livecd form), you should seriously consider checking it out.

    [ Download it here ]

    I’m hoping either team17 or the developers of Wormux come out with an iPhone version after the SDK launches. That would be fantastic.