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Next project: VPN Hacktivator

admin — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:07:02 +0000

Following the success of AirPrint Hacktivator I am thinking of writing another little Hacktivator application to help with the activation of the OS X dormant VPN capabilities.

Unknown to most users OS X contains all the engines needed to allow iPhones/iPads/iPod Touch to establish a VPN connection with your Mac back home… the only problem is that multiple files have to be created and services started to make it work. This is essentially what the OS X Server does with those same files via the provided GUI.

As you might guess this GUI is missing from OS X “user” edition. Here is where VPN Hacktivator will come handy. It will offer a minimalistic way of activating the dormant capabilities. I expect the 1st release to be fairly simple. Just enough to get a VPN connection possible via PPTP to your Mac using an existing Mac user account name. Future release should be able to add more functionality/options.

What will you be able to do with this VPN connection? Print to home printers via AirPrint, access home based web servers via mobile safari, ssh into home servers, remote control home machines via VNC/RDP, etc, etc. I am sure you can come up with other good reasons to use this thing.

Once the VPN is up and running the only thing left to do will be to configure your home router to allow the VPN connection to your Mac… this is going to be the hardest part as VPN Hacktivator won’t be there to automate the configuration.

I will keep you posted on the progress with the application.

Hackintosh Netbook users take note, 10.6.2 update kills support for Atom Processor – OS X Daily

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:15:48 +0000

: Image via Wikipedia

It’s not out in the wild yet, but 10.6.2 has been confirmed to kill support for the Intel Atom processor, this is especially important for Hackintosh users who have hacked various Atom based netbooks to run Snow Leopard. So what should you do if you have an Atom based Hackintosh Netbook? StellaRolla recommends staying with 10.6.1 (or 10.5.8 if you’re running Leopard on your Hackintosh, sine 10.5.9 will likely have the same Atom problems) for the time being, otherwise you can try upgrading to 10.6.2 but run an older or modified kernel. I think I’ll just stick to 10.6.1 when the update rolls around, I have a lot of confidence in the Hackintosh community so I imagine there will be a workaround rather quickly.

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Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 with OS X

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:46:52 +0000

Wondering whether OS X runs on the Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2? The quick version is yes, yes it does. The longer version, is that it takes a bit of work to get it up and running and the camera and audio may not work properly out of the box. There are also problems with the sleep function.

Netbook Philippines member Shinrai also reports that updating to OS X 10.5.5 or a more recent build causes his computer to crash, so he’s sticking with OS X 10.5.4 for now.

You can see a few videos of the netbook in action after the break.

Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2 with OS X – Video.

Admin comment: I think this Lenovo user could use our new NetbookInstaller that should support this Netbook for easy OSX Installation.