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MacBook Air SuperDrive Hack

Posted 06/24/2008 at 11:13am | by Roberto Baldwin

  The MacBook Air SuperDrive has one giant flaw. It only works with the MacBook Air. tnkgrl Mobile decided to fix the MBA SuperDrive by replacing the custom firmware IDE to USB bridge, with an off-the-shelf $9 IDE to USB bridge. The result, an untethered MBA SuperDrive. While we can't approve of the use of the SuperDrive on a HP Mini-Note, the actual hack and attaching it to a Mac mini gets the *Mac|Life seal of approval.  Check out the how-to photos.   *Mac|Life seal of approval not vaild in Arizona, Puerto Rico and Vermont. 

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EFiX Talks About its Hackless Hackintosh

Posted 06/20/2008 at 9:54am | by Michael Simon

 Is that a dongle in your PC, or are you just happy to be using OS X?  For as long as Mac devotees have been flaunting desktop superiority over their Windows counterparts, users on both sides of the fence have clamored for a way to install Mac OS X on a PC. On Monday, the wait may be over. Dubbed “the best solution for running Mac OS X on PCs” and consisting of a device that is “neither a memory stick nor a thumb drive,” EFiX allows non-Mac users “to install Mac OS X straight from the original DVD without having to worry about patches, replacing files and anything like that” is poised to free the PC world from the shackles of Vista. 

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How-To: Restore Your Hacked iPhone

Posted 06/08/2008 at 11:23pm | by Warren Frey

 Disclaimer: Mac|Life can not be held responsible for any problems that may arise from the hacking and unhacking of your iPhone. Be sure to research any hacking and unhacking procedures thoroughly before proceeding.  With the iPhone App Store opening for business at any moment, many iPhone owners are looking at their jailbroken, unlocked or otherwise hacked phones and deciding a little time travel might be in order. After all, it’s quite unlikely programs acquired from the App Store will run on anything but Apple-approved, untouched hardware. With that in mind, let’s run through the various methods of “revirginizing” your iPhone.

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aTV Flash Gets Peeled

Posted 05/29/2008 at 7:32pm | by David W. Martin

 The much heralded hack for the Apple TV, aTV Flash ($59.95) has been repealed and removed from sale. The company reported today on their website the following information: 

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