Hackaday (unofficial) August 15, 2022 9:00am Mac Mini Mini #computerhacks #machacks #casemod #macmini #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Mac Mini Mini The Mac Mini has been roughly the same size and shape for 12 years, as the current design was released in June 2010. However, despite being the same general form factor, the internals has shrunk ov…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 31, 2022 12:00pm Macbook Gets NVMe SSD With Help Of A BGA-Imitating PCB #computerhacks #machacks #m2 #macbook #nvme #pciexpress #pcie #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Macbook Gets NVMe SSD With Help Of A BGA-Imitating PCB Recently, we stumbled upon a video by [iBoff], adding an M.2 NVMe port to a 2011-2013 MacBook. Apple laptops never came with proper M.2 ports, especially the A1278 – so what’s up? The t…
Hackaday (unofficial) May 30, 2022 12:00pm Check Your Mailbox Using The AirTag Infrastructure #machacks #wirelesshacks #airtag #apple #appleairtag #bluetooth #bluetoothlowenergy #findmy #nrf51 #nrf51822 #openhaystack #tracker #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Check Your Mailbox Using The AirTag Infrastructure When a company creates an infrastructure of devices, we sometimes subvert this infrastructure and use it to solve tricky problems. For example, here’s a question that many a hacker has ponder…
Hackaday (unofficial) April 28, 2022 9:00am 90s Apple Computer Finally Runs Unsigned Code #machacks #apple #bandai #crack #custom #macintosh #operatingsystem #pippin #software #unsigned #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 90s Apple Computer Finally Runs Unsigned Code Back in the 90s, the console wars were in full swing. Nintendo vs Sega was an epic showdown at first, but when Nintendo seemed sure to clench the victory Sony came out of nowhere with the PlayStati…
Hackaday (unofficial) March 5, 2022 7:00am Bringing iMessage to the Mac #machacks #retrocomputing #softwarehacks #coprocessor #macclassic #macos #macintosh #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Bringing IMessage To The Mac If you’ve invested in the Apple ecosystem, the joys of iMessage likely illuminate your life. Your phone and desktop and laptop all sync your messages. But what if your desktop is running Mac …
Hackaday (unofficial) February 1, 2022 10:00pm Custom Macintosh with a Real 486 #machacks #486 #apple #computing #dos #freedos #gaming #mac #macintosh #retro #vmac #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Custom Macintosh With A Real 486 Older Apple computers can often be something of a collector’s item, with the oldest fetching an enormously high price in auctions. The ones from the late ’80s and early ’90s don&#…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 19, 2021 1:00pm Change Desktop Environments on… iOS? #machacks #ios #jailbreak #linux #mac #macos #port #posix #unix #xfce #xfce4 #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Change Desktop Environments On… IOS? While Apple’s modern operating systems may seem like they exist independently of the rest of the computing world, they are actually close cousins of modern versions of Linux. The primary link…
Hackaday (unofficial) November 3, 2021 6:00am Cute Little iMac Clone Runs MacOS on a Tiny Screen #machacks #hackintosh #imac #macos #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Cute Little IMac Clone Runs MacOS On A Tiny Screen Building a Hackintosh – a non-Apple computer running MacOS – has been a favorite pastime of hackers ever since Apple made the switch from PowerPC to Intel hardware. Though usually built…
Hackaday (unofficial) September 8, 2021 9:00am Controlling External Monitors On M1 Macs With Undocumented APIs #machacks #ddc #ddc2 #macos #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Controlling External Monitors On M1 Macs With Undocumented APIs Display Data Channel (DDC) is a very useful feature of modern digital displays, as it allows the graphics card (and thus the OS) to communicate with a display and control features such as brightnes…
Hackaday (unofficial) July 27, 2021 6:00am A Single SSD’s Journey from System 7 to High Sierra #machacks #macmini #macbookair #macintosh #performa #powermac #upgrading #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 A Single SSD’s Journey From System 7 To High Sierra With some time to kill and an array of old Apple computers on hand, [Pierre Dandumont] wondered if he could continuously upgrade a single OS drive from the oldest system he had, System 7.1 on a Per…
Hackaday (unofficial) June 30, 2021 12:00pm Handheld Hackintosh Runs Mac OS on LattePanda #handheldshacks #machacks #3dprintedenclosure #hackintosh #handheld #macos #portablecomputer #hackaday posted by pod_feeder_v2 Handheld Hackintosh Runs Mac OS On LattePanda We’ve seen a huge influx of bespoke portable computers over the last couple of years thanks to availability of increasingly powerful single-board computers. The vast majority of these have be…