1. Connect your iPhone to your computer and open iTunes. Also click the date/time at the top right of your screen and open “date & time”

2. Look at the clock. At a certain moment, press and hold the power and home button on your iPhone. After *exactly* 10 seconds, release the power button and keep the home button pressed until the iPhone is recognized in iTunes. The iPhone screen will be black.

3. Restore your iPhone to firmware version 1.1.4 by holding the option/alt button on your keyboard and pressing restore in iTunes. You’ll see a Finder window. Select the 1.1.4 firmware ipsw and hit OK.

4. Wait till the firmware has been installed. iTunes will show a wrong SIM message, or an activate now message. Close iTunes when you see that message. Also close the iTunesHelper with Activity Monitor (Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor).

5. Download iPlus 2.0 and extract the zip file to your desktop. If you don’t have librreadline installed, copy libreadline.5.2.dylib from the iPlus1.2 folder to /opt/local/lib/ on the root (not in another folder) of your hard disk. If those folders don’t exist, you need to create them (right click in Finder, new folder, create the folder opt, inside that folder a folder local and inside that one a folder lib)

6. Launch a terminal window (Applictaion/Utilities/Terminal) and type:

cd /Users/your account/Desktop/’iPlus 2.0′

7. Then type in ./iplus -u

8. Wait a few minutes. After about 5 minutes, you’ll see your iPhone boot up and the slide to unlock window. Do not slide it yet, but wait another tow minutes. The iPhone will restart twice after about 2 minutes

9. After that restart, slide to unlock, read the nice message and enjoy your unlocked iPhone!

CREDITS:

I didn’t write iPlus, aviegas did (so don’t forget to press the thumbs up on this post if you have a hackint0sh account: http://www.hackint0sh.org/forum/showpost.php?p=245367&postcount=1)!

If you want to view them, you either need to move to the states or use a slow proxy, isn’t it? Well, not exactly. You can view those video’s at normal speeds (aka. about the same as you max internet speed) with a free program called Hotspot Shield. The name may sound a little bit strange in this context, and it isn’t made for this purpose, though it works perfectly. Hotspot Shield will create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) which prevents hulu to see that you’re outside the sites, while it doesn’t decrease your internet connetion speed! To install it, just follow the instructions on http://anchorfree.com/downloads/hotspot-shield/ and you’ll be able to see those hulu videos within a few minutes!

And as you maybe already guessed, this works for all US-only sites (so you can finally use Pandora again)!

1. Download the web browser Safari (OSX or Windows) and start it.

2. Browse to the site with the embedded song (in this example: 3121.com/jam/)

3. In Safari’s toolbar, click Window > Activity

4. Scroll to the mp3 file, if there’s more than one, use common sense in combination with the file size and file name to find the right one. Double click it.

5. If the download starts automatically, the song will appear in your downloads folder, if it opens Quicktime, hit the little arrow and select safe as source. If it does something else, copy paste the URL in Firefox and go to file > save as.

That’s it! This little trick works for all embedded things (youtube video’s, background music, vodcasts, podcasts etc.)

If you know a better way, please leave a comment, though I think that this beats al youtube download pages (since it won’t go down after 2 days)

Yes, I know that you saw that before… But why are all those sites displaying those ugly borders? I don’t know, because you don’t need to know any advanced techniques to remove the border! Just add the following code to your CSS document:

a {
outline: none;
}

And gone are the dotted borders!

But does that validate?

It’s easy to think that everyone isn’t using this because it doesn’t validate, though it does validate! Check it out on the W3C CSS Validator if you don’t believe me.

But why isn’t everyone using this?

Because most people don’t know that it is possible… In the past it was necessary to have the dotted border around licked links to see if you actually clicked it or not (in he past we had sow computers, so it took a while before the thing actually started downloading the new site). Today we don’t need that anymore so please add this code to your Cascading Style Sheets and stop the uglyness!

If you want some inspiration, watch these parodies (ow, before I forget, the stuff below is a copy from wikipedia):

- Copycat pokes fun at the GUI of Vista looking very similar to some of the features in Mac OSX. It was produced by Justin Sable, Nicole Brown, and Tom LeClair.

- Canadian comedy group TrueNuff has produced a variety of spoof ads which parody the Get A Mac campaign. The spoofs have gained popularity through YouTube and have appeared on television.

- David Pogue, technology columnist for The New York Times, in one of his video articles, a parody of the ads is done showing how Kodak printers have higher quality pictures for less ink: a female Kodak with a skull and crossbones parody on her shirt compares herself with a blonde male HP in a business suite have elevated arguments, leading to HP attacking Kodak which causes Pogue, acting probably as a director, to come out and break up the fight. The video ends with the two going to bash Epson.

- Greenpeace, in their effort to make Apple produce more environmentally-friendly products, released a spoof video showing PC and Mac listing the contaminants they each contain.

- Novell created three “Get a Mac” ads with PC, Mac (both in the style of the Get a Mac guys) and Linux (in the style of a 25-year-old woman).

- The introduction video of Intel Developer Forum 2006 opening keynote is a spoof showing that both PCs and Macs are both using Intel Core 2 Duo chips. It shows the Mac character looking at the PC character’s arm, which has an Intel-style Core 2 Duo logo tattooed to it. Mac unzips his jacket to reveal an Apple-style Core 2 Duo logo. They hug.

- Another spoof, featured on G4, features the Wii (represented by a chipper, skinny woman) vs the PS3 (represented by a serious and overweight woman). The Wii talks about its ease of use, and price, whereas the PS3 claims that “good things cost good money”, and that she has better features.

- David Letterman created a short spoof in which, after PC’s and Mac’s introductions, Mac suddenly explodes. This is a reference to the Sony battery explosions of 2006 that affected numerous notebook manufacturers, including Dell, Apple and Toshiba, amongst others. Another series of spoofs on Letterman’s show featured Chris Elliott as Mac.

- The Canadian sketch show Royal Canadian Air Farce has begun parodies of the campaign where, PC is replaced with a Progressive Conservative (called PC), and Mac is replaced with a Liberal. The parodies begin similar to the real ads, with the Liberal saying “Hi, I’m a Liberal.” and the Progressive Conservative adding “And I’m a PC.”
Emma Nelson from Degrassi: The Next Generation and Jude Harrison from Instant Star talk about their shows and the features of each

- An episode of satirical comedy show Dead Ringers featured a sketch involving Tony Blair as PM, and David Cameron as a Mac, as a comparison between the Labour Party and the Conservative Party. They finish by stating that it doesn’t matter which you choose, because like computers, “We’re the only options you’ve got.”, at which point Ming Campbell (of the Liberal Democrats) comes on behind in a motorised wheelchair, saying “That’s what you think! I’m a ZX81, you know!”.

- ItsJustSomeRandomGuy, a YouTube user, created a series of shorts called “Hi, I’m a Marvel…and I’m a DC“. Superman represents DC Comics and Spider-Man represents Marvel Comics. The two discuss each company’s future films as well as their own pasts. As the series got popular, more characters were included such as Batman and The Hulk.

- In a recent campaign, the on-line video site Dailymotion made some spoof ads of the “Get a Mac”, comparing it to the competitiors (basically YouTube). The Competitor wears a black suit and has an American accent, while Dailymotion wears a grey skirt and top with a white scarf and red beret (a joke on the fact that Dailymotion is based in Paris, France), speaking with a British accent.

- In an ad for wines Castillo de Molina and 35° South acts out a simmilar style with white background and a casually dressed actor (35° South) and a formally dressed actor (Castillo de Molina).

- Mac vs. PC - South Park style is a video animated by the South Park Character Creator program, recreating Mac and PC as South Park children. It is currently featured on YouTube. PC explains that he looks thinner due to a virus which erased his Media Player files. He then criticizes Mac for having a “game deficiency”, prompting Mac to send him a virus-laced email and accidentlly “breaks him.” PC reboots and Mac tries to run away before PC turns back on, but is frozen mid-step by a modem error. PC then attempts to attack Mac, but is also frozen in mid-step. The short ends with the message “Computers suck.”

I: The guide:

1. Download an IRC client to access an IRC network. Mac users can use Conversation or the impressive Colloquy. Windows users can use an program called mIRC. Linux users can use X-Chat.

2. When you installed the program and typed in basic things like “nickname” and “e-mail” (if you need a guide for that, please leave this site now) you need to connect to an IRC network. There’ll be tons of networks to choose from by default. If you know a good network about the topic of your site, connect to that one (I use irc.moofspeak.net, it’s a great and fast server with some good osx86 channels on it), otherwise just choose a good and fancy name.

3. Now we’re going to do the geeky stuff. Register your nickname on the server with the following command:

/msg nickserv register <PASSWORD> <EMAIL >

You need to replace <PASSWORD> with your password and <EMAIL> with your e-mail. In my case the command will look like this:

/msg nickserv register uncr4ck4bl3p4ssw0rd mypersonalspambox@profit42.com

4. Okay, you registered your nickname! Damn, that’s cool… Well, now we’re going to do even cooler stuff. We are going to identify you. It basically means that you are going to login:

/msg NickServ IDENTIFY <PASSWORD>

5. Fasten your seatbelt! You’re logged in and now we’re going to create your channel:

/msg Chanserv REGISTER <channel> <password> <description>

6. That’s it! Now join your channel and show off!

/join <#channel>

Don’t forget the #! If you want to join my channel on irc.moofspeak.net you have to type:

/join #profit42

7. Want to make your channel even more fancy? Change the channels topic!

/topic <#channel> <topic>

II: The closing remarks

It’s possible that “your” IRC server needs slightly different commands, if something isn’t working, post a command or join our IRC channel!

DISCLAIMER: This guide is for information purposes only! We only say what’s possible. As you maybe already know, it is illegal to download OSX 10.5 Leopard and illegal to install OSX 10.5 Leopard on you Windows computer. If you are here for that purpose, leave this site now. If you want to use OSX, buy a Mac (I would recommend the iMac that has been released a few days ago, it’s fast and the design is just… well, let’s say it’s prettier than the girl you met yesterday). Do not post links or hints to illegal files in comments or on the forum (if you ignore this rule you’ll be awarded with a permanent ban) and do not mail us if you want to know where you can get illegal file called x or y, we won’t answer to those mails. This site (and the webmaster) is not liable for any of the actions taken by its visitors.

…carefully and you’ll be able to show off with Leopard in no time.

Well, I say no time, but that’s only true when you already downloaded all needed packages and stuff. You need to download about 10GB of data so make sure that you read the following paragraph before you start downloading the things mentioned in this guide.

If you are already running tiger on your Windows box there’s almost 99% chance that Leopard will work on your computer. never installed tiger before? If you want to install OSX (tiger or leopard) on your Intel or AMD computer, your computer processor needs to support at least SSE2. You can check this with a program called CPU-Z. Don’t even dare to try this stuff if CPU-Z only states SSE, it won’t work. If you got SSE3, you’re lucky because everything will go [synonym for extremely] fast.

So your CPU supports at least SSE2? Doublecheck it and read on.

“The developers” made a patch for Leopard build 9A466 and 9A499 to make it work on your PC. Because 9A499 is very unstable I’ll only discuss 9A466 in this guide, if you really want to use 9A499 I think you can find out things by yourself. This patch allows you to install Leopard, though it won’t install a Darwin bootloader. Because that little thingy is necessary you first need to install OSX Tiger on your hard disk, which comes with the Darwin bootloader. But that’s enough chitchat for now, from now on you won’t see bad grammar etc. but only direct steps:

. Some credits before the coolness starts

Some people say that I copied this guide. Sadly I have to say that that isn’t the case. This is 100% my own work of art, though a guy named Ramm really helped me with the patching steps.

I: Download and burn

1. Get a prepatched OSX Tiger install image (version doesn’t really matter). Don’t ask me where!

2. Burn the image to an empty DVD recordable (+R or –R, no rewritable dvd!)

3. Download OSX Leopard beta build 9A466. Don’t ask me where you can find it! and do not burn this file to a DVD yet, place it somewhere on your HD or external HD where you can’t lose it.

4. Download the Intel/AMD patch for the leopard beta DVD. Don’t ask me where you can find it!

II: The partitioning

5. I assume that you already got Vista installed. If not, install Vista.

6. You need to create at least 3 partitions, one or more partitions for Vista, one for Tiger and one for Leopard (In Vista I’ll recommend “Disk Management” for this job: Press the windows logo in the bottom left corner of you screen. Right click ‘computer’ and select ‘manage’. Select ‘Disk Management’ in the ‘Computer Management’ screen). It doesn’t matter if you format them NTFS or FAT32, we’ll change that later.

III: The Installation of Tiger

7. Insert the OSX install disk and reboot your computer, when the DVD is booted (an take up to 30 minutes!), select the right language and open Disk Utility. It’s somewhere in the bar at the top.

8. Select one of the two partitions that you dedicated to OSX and click format, format it to HFS+ (journaled). Do the same with the other partition.

9. Close Disk Utility. Follow the installation steps on your screen. Read everything carefully and select the right packages!

10. After finishing the installation, OSX should boot up. Play with it for a few moments and then proceed to the next step.

IV: Patching of the Leopard DVD

11. Copy the (unpatched) Leopard install disk and the patcher to a place where you can find it, on an HFS+ formatted partition.

12. Open the patcherfolder and then the 9A466 folder. In this folder, you’ll see a folder called “amd-intel-sse2 patcher”. Rename that folder to “amd-intel-sse2″ and open it.

13. Open patch-it.sh with a text editor (should open with textedit by default). You need to edit line 4 (DMG=”/Users/user/9A466.dmg”) in a way that it points to the Leopard image that you downloaded (DMG=”/path/to/your/image/nameoftheimage.dmg”).

14. Save and close the file. Open up an terminal window (/applications/utilities/terminal) and cd to the directory containing patch-it.sh (’cd /patcher/9A466/amd-intel-sse2/’ will open up /patcher/9A466/amd-intel-sse2/)

15. Type ’sudo -s’ and type in your password (if you have no password, just hit enter).

16. Type in ‘./patch-it.sh’ and let the patcher do it’s work!

17. Do not burn the image yet!

V: Editing the image

18. You could now just burn the image, though if you know that there are certain kexts that you have to use from tiger or from anyone else, you can replace them now (well, read the following steps and I’ll explain how).

19. Open a terminal window and type in

sudo hdiutil attach -readwrite /path/to/patches/9A466/amd-intel-sse2/BurnThisImage.iso -owners on

20. Your patched image is now mounted and you’ll be able to change files on it, just open finder and browse to <BurnThisImage.iso>/System/Library/Extensions and add, remove or change kexts.

21. Open a terminal window and type in

cd /Volumes/”Mac OS X Install Disc x86“/System/Library/Extensions && sudo chmod -R 755 * && sudo chown -R root:wheel * (this is one line of code!)

VI: Burning the patched Leopard image

22. Insert a blank DVD recordable and choose to open Disk utility in the window that pops up.

23. Select the Leopard image and hit burn.

24. When burning is finished, put the DVD in a jewel case or something and go on with the next step. do not install leopard before you read the steps below

VII: Preparing the Post Installation Patch

25. Make sure that the partition you dedicated to Leopard is now empty or hasn’t any important files on it

26. Place the patcher on your tiger partition and do not remove it yet.

27. Insert the Leopard DVD and restart your computer.

VIII: Installing Leopard

28. When the DVD is booted, follow all installation steps on your screen. Install Leopard to the empty Leopard partition.

29. Remove the DVD and reboot when the installation is finished. In the Darwin bootloader, do not select the Leopard partition but the Tiger partition and boot Tiger.

IX: Make Leopard working

30. When Tiger is booted, create a folder called leopatch on you Tiger hd.

AMD ONLY! 31. If you have an AMD CPU, cd to /patches/9A466/”AMD_MaxxussPatcher_cpuid_and_decryps Folder”. if you have an Intel CPU, skip to step 33.

AMD ONLY! 32. Check if the Leopard partition is mounted as /Leopard/, if not, edit the 3 files below to point to you leopard partition. Do the sudo -s command and type in:

./decrypt.sh
patcher leo_cpuid.txt
patcher leo_dvd.txt

33. Browse to the folder with the original 9A466 patch andopen up /files/, you’ll see a file called mach_kernel, place this in the root of the leopatch folder.

34. You’ll also see a folder called /extensions/, place the contents of this folder in a folder called /ext/ in the leopatch folder.

35. Open up a new terminal window.

36. In the next steps I’m going to assume that your Leopard partition is called LEO and that your Tiger partition is called TIGER. If this isn’t the case, cd to /volumes/ and type ls to find out how your Leopard or Tiger partition is called.

37. Type the following commands in the terminal window (all italic words can vary depending on your installation, use common sense and change them according to your folder structure):

cd /volumes/LEO/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ && rm -rf ossmgr.plist
cd /volumes/TIGER/leopatch/

38. Open up another terminal window (do not close the first one!) and type in

cd /Volumes/LEO/
rm -rf mach_kernel

39. In the first terminal window, type in

cp -R mach_kernel /Volumes/LeoHD/
cd ext

40. Go to the second window again and type in ls. This should return the contents of the root folder including mach_kernel, if you don’t see this file you did something terribly wrong…

41. In the second window, type in

cd System/Library/Extensions
rm -rf AppleACPIPlatform.kext
rm -rf AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext
rm -rf ApplePS2Controller.kext
rm -rf AppleSMBIOS.kext
rm -rf Natit.kext

42. In the first window, type in

cp -R AppleACPIPlatform.kext /Volumes/LeoHD/System/Library/Extensions
cp -R AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext /Volumes/LeoHD/System/Library/Extensions
cp -R ApplePS2Controller.kext /Volumes/LeoHD/System/Library/Extensions
cp -R AppleSMBIOS.kext /Volumes/LeoHD/System/Library/Extensions
cp -R Natit.kext /Volumes/LeoHD/System/Library/Extensions

43. Close this window and go to the second window. Type in

cd /Volumes/Leo/ && sudo chmod -R 755 * && sudo chown -R root:wheel *
cd /Volumes/Leo/System/Library/Extensions/ && sudo chmod -R 755 * && sudo chown -R root:wheel *
reboot

X: The finale

44. Close the second window. Reboot your computer, select the Leopard partition in the Darwin boot manager and pray….

45. If you still can’t boot Leopard, try to overwrite IOATAFamily.kext from leopard with the one you have from Tiger.

46. Still got problems? Head over to our IRC channel (including web based chat) and ask your question! To make things easier, please provide all information that you can give when asking a question (computer specifications, screenshot or photo of the error, previous Tiger installs worked (yes/no) etc.)

XI: Credits

I would like to thank Maxxuss, Semthex, JaS, Netkas, Ramm, all other developers, Apple, Google, the community, osx86scene, insanelymac.com and my hosting provider. Without you the world of a PC user was a lot less spectacular.

I packed together the top 10 most common PHP mistakes in one printable pdf file (cause this stupid wordpress blog isn’t allowing me to paste the table I made in word…). It’s almost impossible to make a PHP site without making one of those mistakes. Give the print a good place on your wall and look at it when you get an error. It’ll speed things up when you can’t find anything after 10 hours of coding…

If you’re still fresh enough, make a photo of the print on your wall and post a link to it in a comment. the most original one (no, the print in a bin is not original…) will receive something (dunno what, make suggestions please…)

Click the image below to download the pdf:

According to the site itself you need to pay about 12 dollars a month to view the solutions given by the experts and other users of the site. At first glance this looks quite true because a regular visitor will see that all answers are grayed out (example), to be precise, there’s only one user that doesn’t need to pay in order to view the solutions: Google. No, I’m not kidding. The site gives Google free access because it wants to be indexed in Google’s search engine.

We can use Google’s advantage in two different ways:

1) This way is useful if you found an EE question on Google and only want to view the solution of that question. In order to view the solution, you only need to click the small In cache link at the end of the result. This will redirect you to the page in Google’s cache and will allow you to see the solution (example, scroll down, the solution is at the bottom)

2) If you want to browse EE and if you want up to date solutions, you need to be recognized as the googlebot. With a Firefox extension called user agent switcher this’ll cost less than a few seconds:

1. Download and install the Firefox extension user agent switcher from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59?id=59

2. In Firefox, go to Tools -> User Agent Switcher -> Option, and add the Googlebot as an user agent

Description: Googlebot 2.1 (New Version)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

3. In Firefox, go to Tools -> User Agent Switcher -> Googlebot 2.1

4. In Firefox, go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Exeptions

5. Type in the white text bar: www.experts-exchange.com and hit block.

6. In Firefox, go to Tools -> Clear private data -> select cookies -> hit clear private data now.

Now browse to EE and you’ll be able to view all solutions for free (proof)!

This guide tells you how to install OSX 10.4.10 on your Intel or AMD Windows machine, dual booting with Vista. This guide is for information purposes only. This guide is for SSE3 processors only!

Why is this guide better than the previous ones I found here?

- The 10.4.10 update is now in a single updater, no need to copy paste kernels etc.
- This revision is written for uphucks new install DVD and I cleared up all confusion about step 12.

Don’t have a SSE3 processsor?

Try our 10.4.9 guide and come back later to see if there’s a SSE2 update available.

Read this before reading the guide:

There are only two ways to install OSX 10.4.10 legally on your Windows computer:
1. Become an Apple developer
2. You can also buy an Intel Mac (I would recommend the Mac Pro!), install Windows Vista on it using Apple’s Boot Camp and remove OSX completely, so that you have a legally bought osx86 licence. This method isn’t confirmed and some people say it’s illegal because the EULA says that you aren’t allowed to install OSX on non-Apple hardware.
This means that for most people it is ILLEGAL to install osx on their computer. If you aren’t an Apple developer, leave page now. This site is in no way liable or responsible for the actions of its visitors.

IMPORTANT: DOWNLOADING OSX86 (a prepatched OSX 10.4.9 install image) IS ILLEGAL.

Don’t ask me where you can download OSX86, not in a comment, not by e-mail, not by phone, not by sending a telegram and not by any other way you can imagine. Just don’t ask me. If you don’t know it and still want it, become an Apple developer or BUY A MAC!

EVEN MORE IMPORTANT: You need a processor that supports at least SSE3 to make this work.

You can check this with a program called CPU-Z (http://cpuid.com/cpuz.php).

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

- processor that supports at least SSE3 (see above)
- prepatched OSX 10.4.9 install image (see step 1. for more info)
- Vista install DVD
- chain0 (search google, you’ll find it within a few seconds)
- Custom ‘PascalW’ 10.4.10 update

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