Two months ago I walked through how to build a Hackintosh Mac on the cheap using PC parts.
Since that post, the OSx86 scene has changed rapidly, and now you can install Leopard on your computer about as easily as installing Leopard on a Mac—no command line hacking required.
In addition, the resulting installation is—theoretically, at least—can be upgraded without fear of breaking.
As if the simplicity of the installation weren’t already enough, the new installation tools fix any problems I’ve had in the past (for example, I no longer need to keep my install DVD in the drive to boot into OS X), and support the Wi-Fi card on my motherboard out-of-the-box.
In short, it’s a winner.
This user interface project allows you to control objects on a display using gestures, working like Microsoft’s Surface but without touching the screen at all.
Inspired by Johnny Chung Lee’s work, the system requires you to wear Minority Report-style gloves equipped with infrared emitters on your fingertips.
A Wiimote on top of the display keeps track of these IR LEDs, while the software can read the motion down to two-finger pinching gestures for image zooming.
Hopefuly, using it won’t convert you into a sofa-jumping, grinning-crazy, Scientology-member maniac.
Clearly a match made in heaven, the doomed-but-beloved Amiga OS has been made to run on the maybe-doomed-but-beloved OLPC.
It’s not running natively, sadly, so the real hack here is getting the Amiga Forever emulator running on NickNeg’s baby, but still, this combination is just beautifully tragic.
Hackers l3lack J4ck, The Revival and djdut2000 have put together yet another modified iPod firmware, this time to mimic the iPod touch interface in your iPod 5G.
In fact, it has a bit of the touch and a bit of the iPod Classic, as the other screenshots show:
Obviously, it’s not going to be the same thing without real on-screen touchy-touchy action but the results seem quite good.
In fact, even while it has some little bugs that are being resolved now, it looks surprisingly polished to me.
However, like all non-Apple modifications, be aware that this may void your guarantee, render your iPod useless and make lightning fall from the sky and disintegrate you.
For the extreme tinkerer and iPod aficionado, we present to you what appears to be the first ever internal-Bluetooth enabled iPod.
Using a flash-memory-modded 20GB 4G iPod, a Jabra A120S Bluetooth music adapter, some clever wiring, a little drilling, and some good old-fashioned elbow grease, one modder has taken things inside his DAP to dizzying heights which can only be referred to as “the next level”.
The mod has its catches of course — first you’ll have to kick the hard drive to the curb in favor of the more space-conscious flash memory, and you’ll need to be pretty handy with a soldering iron and voltmeter, but if you’ve got the mettle (and this how-to guide), you should be rocking the new Mortiis album wirelessly very, very soon.
Check the read link for all the step-by-step goodness.
