The Hack is Back: OS X Fixed To Run on Atom Netbooks

When Apple dropped support for Atom processors in OS X 10.6.2, effectively killing Hackintosh netbooks, we knew that somebody would fix things. We didn’t know that it would happen so fast.

Just over a week after the update, Russian hacker “Tea” has made a patched kernel specifically for the Atom CPU. Simply copying this to the root level of your drive and rebooting should make everything work just like it did in 10.6.1. Of course, if you are suffering the endless gray screen on boot that characterizes the problem OS, then you’ll somehow need to get into the hard drive from the outside, perhaps by booting from the DVD or USB stick you used to hack your Mac in the first place.

Tea himself didn’t actually test out this kernel (which is the very lowest level of the OS) on 10.6.2, but some brave (desperate?) folks at the Insanely Mac forums tried it and it apparently works fine.

My Wind Hackintosh is still running the previous version of OS X 10.5 Leopard. I see no reason to update it, especially with all these shenanigans.

Kernel mach_kernel 10.2.0 for netbooks based on Intel Atom [Tea Blog]

Patched mach_kernel 10.2.0 for Atom-based netbooks, Dirty bithack [Insanely Mac]

DOWNLOAD HERE 

1. Download zip to Desktop
2. Unzip by double click
3. Open Terminal.app
4. sudo -s
5. Enter your root password
6. cd /
7. mv mach_kernel mach_kernel_1062
8. cp ~/Desktop/mach_kernel /
9. chown 0:0 mach_kernel
10. reboot

As of Now working to this laptop

Dell Mini 10

Eeebox B202 with N270

Acer Aspire ONEZG5

Asus EeePC 1000HE

Toshiba NB205

Credits to: TeaBag

Abuse iPhone gets Polished to Perfection

The iPhone is a beautiful piece of hardware but a few months in your pocket along with those keys and coins is enough to scratch it up. Now, instead of toting a clawed-out piece of hardware, you can apply some elbow grease and restore it to near perfection

Hack n Mod has posted a cool tutorial on how to give an abused iPhone a fresh out-of-the-box look.

To fix scratches on the back,  you need to gently dry sand it, then add some water to wet sand and polish it with a 3M Headlight Lens Restoration Kit. The detailed step-by-step pictorial offers information on what grit of sandpaper to use and how to get the mirror-like finish.

The only catch is that the Apple logo at the back is erased in the process but that’s a small price to pay. And it’s not like anyone can mistake the iPhone for another phone–whether Apple’s logo is on there or not.

Fixing scratches on the display is a little more tricky because it involves getting a replacement top layer but that’s available on eBay for $10. Just follow the instructions to open up the front cover and its simple enough to do.

The technique doesn’t apply to just the iPhone. You can take any scratched-up phone and polish it to get a new look.