Legend has it that if you put a dead hard drive in a freezer, pull it out and plug it in, it should run long enough to recover the data.   Is it true?  Indeed, it seems so.
While freezing the drive for a while extends life momentarily, the real tri…

You can remotely shut down your computer from anywhere in the world using any cell phone with texting capabilities and Mozilla Thunderbird, a Mac, or Microsoft Outlook.  It’s pretty simple to accomplish and the video above guides you through th…

Previously, we’ve shown you how to hack WEP in less than 10 minutes.  Now we’ll show you how it can be done specifically on a Mac or Linux box.  The tutorial demonstrates KisMac which has the ability to reinject packets and crack WEP key…

Loads of hacks for your Mac, honestly, you can’t have too many.

I have an Apple Pro Mouse that stopped working. I thought I would tear it apart to see how it worked before I threw it away, at the very least I could salvage the LED from it. As I held it in my hand I realized it was the right size and shape to becom…

Mac OS X is a great operating system out of the box, but a few simple customizations can make it even better. OS X ships with some odd and sometimes inconvenient default settings, and it’s got a few nifty little perks for power
users who enable …

I am a good-old Apple user in Japan. From the Apple IIe to this iBook and I used several computers made by Apple Computer Inc. I belong to Hokkaido Macintosh Users’ Group from 11 years ago. The Swiki site of MUG activities is here. Thanks to kin…

I recently took my ibook apart to take the thermal pad off and replace it with thermal paste (Funny, I thought it would have thermal paste already).  I then just had a brilliant idea of using the xbox heatsinks to add cooling.  Learn how you can do …

Everyone knows Powerbooks have terrible wi-fi reception. Unfortunately, only 15″ and 17″ Powerbooks facilitate adding your own external antenna. With just a few quick cuts you can modify a 12″ Powerbook to take an external antenna as …