This article on Lifehacker shows how you can patch a purchased copy of Mac OS X with code from the OSx86 project that will allow you to install and run OS X on a non-Mac Intel based PC. What’s more, with some off the shelf components you can build your own non-Mac Mac with 2.2GHz, 4GB RAM and a 500GB drive for under $800.
OZ Messenger on my T-Mobile Wing won’t close, and if left open drains the battery
I just got a T-Mobile Wing which is an awesome Windows Mobile PDA phone, and I’ve been really amazed with the features it is packed with. My oly complaint so far is the OZ Messenger client for Yahoo, AIM and ICQ Instant Messenging won’t close when you click the ‘X’ or from the Task List, and I just found out today that if you leave it logged in and turn off the screen, it drained my battery from fully charged to 10% within about 3 hours. This can’t be right. I haven’t found any posts of anyone having the same issues, so I’m looking around for a new IM client to try instead.
So far I’ve noticed Agile Messenger get’s a lot of comments in forums so I might give this one a try.
Google offer $10m in prizes for apps developed for Andriod mobile platform
Google are offering $10m in prizes for apps developed using their Android mobile application platform, which was released on Monday this week.
Demo of Windows XP being hacked within 6 minutes on unsecured WiFi
At an online security demo this week in the UK, a government and industry sponsored group demonstrated how easy it is to hack into Windows XP if connected to an unsecured WiFi network. They got into the machine as far as being able to run commands from the command line within just 6 minutes. Microsoft apparently commented saying the demo was ‘enlightening and frightening’. Quite why they sound so surprised I have no idea.