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 …read more Continue reading Mac Mini Mini
Category Archives: Mac Hacks
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 …read more Continue reading Macbook Gets NVMe SSD With Help Of A BGA-Imitating PCB
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 …read more Continue reading Check Your Mailbox Using The AirTag Infrastructure
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 …read more Continue reading 90s Apple Computer Finally Runs Unsigned Code
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 …read more Continue reading Bringing iMessage to the Mac
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 …read more Continue reading Custom Macintosh with a Real 486
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 …read more Continue reading Change Desktop Environments on… iOS?
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 …read more Continue reading Controlling External Monitors On M1 Macs With Undocumented APIs
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 …read more Continue reading A Single SSD’s Journey from System 7 to High Sierra
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 been …read more Continue reading Handheld Hackintosh Runs Mac OS on LattePanda