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iPhone Pwned and Powered by T-Mobile

Mac / ApplePublished July 21, 2008 at 12:38 pm No Comments

The Dev-Team has done it again. With the release of the new PwnageTool 2.1, I was able to upgrade my first gen iPhone to 2.0 within minutes. Here are the simple steps to Pwning your First Gen iPhone: Download PwnageTool 2.0.1 here Download the required Bootloader files here Start up iTunes and Restore Update your
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VMWare vs Parallels

Mac / ApplePublished March 14, 2008 at 7:40 am 4 Comments

Since I purchased my iMac a year and a half ago, I’ve been a solid Parallels fan, until yesterday. After reading Danny Sullivans post on his experience with VMWare I decided to give it a shot. Installation, I still have to give Parallels props on, installing windows is far more advanced with Parallels than VMWare,
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Big Screen Porn, Oh My

Mac / ApplePublished December 24, 2007 at 7:51 am No Comments

So the other week, I get a call from a friend who was having some “computer issues”, I’ll refer to him as “Stubborn PC User”, I of course offer to help. The symptoms were as follows: Mouse sluggish and running with a trail behind it Screen Ghosting with shadows Windows opening really slow My Suggestion
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Army to Add Macs for increased Security

Mac / ApplePublished December 23, 2007 at 5:18 am 1 Comment

I love to poke holes in articles on top web sites and magazines, sometimes it’s a tough find but today I hit a jackpot (literally – won over 18k) but that’s another story. My current article challenge is the Forbes.com story titled “Apples for the Army“. The Term “Top Secret” should be implied Forbes.com …you
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961 IT Professionals Choose Mac over PC

Mac / ApplePublished November 20, 2007 at 2:33 am No Comments

Over at MacNN there’s an article on a study conducted by King Research, interesting enough, it shows that IT Professionals are preferring Mac over installing Vista. I’m not a fan of PC’s but for myself, installing Vista is such a lame excuse to move to Mac. As an IT Professional myself, Linux System Administrator, I
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