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OS X Yosemite Public Beta is now Available for Download

By fantomas, in OSx86, July 24, 2014

As expected, OS X Yosemite public beta is now available for download.
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The public beta is available to the first million users who have signed up for OS X Beta program.
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The build number is 14A299l, which is newer build compared to OS X Yosemite Preview 4 build (Build number – 14A298i) that was released earlier in the week.
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How to Install OS X Yosemite beta
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You can download the beta from the Mac App Store. Sign up for the OS X Beta Program if you haven’t already.
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Sign in to the OS X Beta Program website, then scroll down and click the Get OS X Yosemite Redemption code button. You will be taken to another webpage. Here click the Download button below, the Mac App Store will open with your redemption code already entered.
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In the Mac App Store click the Redeem button to start your download and follow the on screen instructions to install OS X Yosemite beta.
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As always, let us know how it goes in the comments.
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source forum discussion
- OSX
- 10.10
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[Rumored]Apple planing to release a 12" Retina Macbook

By fallen101, in OSx86, July 20, 2014

We have all been anticipating the lunch of a brand new MacBook Air for a while now. This rumor is also re-enforced with the fact earlier this month intel began to ship its new Broadwell chips to manufacturers like apple. Bordwell brings on the great features of Haswell but with less heat. It's part of intel's Tick-Tock process.

A die shrinkage isn't all that's coming to broadwell, some minor video improvements have been confirmed for the chip. Which adds VP8 hardware decoding, as well as two independent stream decoders to boost video decoding performance and speed. The TDP can be as little as 3.5W and as high as 4.5 Watts.
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This is great news for apple! despite only being dual core processors, these pack a powerful punch, allowing apple to create a smaller MacBook without compromising size, battery life or performance. In fact some rumors clam that it'll be even thinner then the current MacBook Air! Stunning!
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Let me know if you're as excited as I am about what apple has in store for us in the upcoming months!
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source: MacRumors
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Apple redesigns OS X.

By fallen101, in OSx86, July 14, 2014

Last year apple radically changed the look of Apple's their mobile operating system with iOS 7. John Ive who has been the lead designer behind many of Apple's designs. Lets take a look at some of the changes.

You can expect a number of changes with Apple's latest addition of OS X.
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One major change you will see is the dock.
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The new dock has improved the design of the icons. the new dock, as well as other UI improvements lessens the UI fragmentation between Apple's Operating Systems.
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If you would like to read more about the upcoming changes Apple's gives insight about there design philosophy.
An Insanelymac user Dcai777 has uploaded some great screen shots of the operating system. You can view them here.
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What are your thoughts about the up coming changes coming to mac this fall? Let us know in the comments below.
- 10.10
- Yosemite
- OSX
- OS x
- Hackintosh
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And the winner for MacMod of the Year 2013 is...

By PunkNugget, in OSx86, March 12, 2014

Now here are the winners for MacMod of the Year for 2013...

Here is the link to all the winners for MacMod of the Year 2013! Come and claim your PRIZES !!!
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MacMod of the Year 2013 WINNERS !!!
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Congrats to all the winners and everyone else who placed their entries. Once again, these were some amazing custom builds !!!
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Happy New Year 2014!

By ErmaC, in OSx86, December 31, 2013

To all our users, we the staff of InsanelyMac wish you a Happy New Year 2014!.

To all our users, we the staff of InsanelyMac wish you a Happy New Year.
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May the 2014 bring these wishes to all of you.
Warmth of love, comfort of home joy for your children,
Company and support of family and friends.
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Bye bye 2013...
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MacMod of the YEAR

By Alessandro17, in OSx86, December 16, 2013

It's that time of year folks and we're here giving you the chance to vote for your favorite MacMod of the YEAR !!! All you have to do is go to this link:
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http://www.insanelym...the-month-2013/
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and vote away !!! Go to the person's MacMod post you like most and vote. Remember, you can only vote ONCE and please make sure you say - YOU GOT MY VOTE !!!
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A tally of all votes will counted on each person's MacMod post. Here are our GIVEAWAY prizes:
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1st prize: $50.00 Newegg.com gift card
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2nd prize: $30.00 Newegg.com gift card
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3rd Prize: $20.00 Newegg.com gift card
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The deadline is December 31st 11:59 PM. All awards will be announced January 7th. We look forward to seeing who the winners will be. Good fortune to all and Merry Christmas !!!
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Special thanks go to PunkNugget, who has put a lot of work into this project and has funded the prizes out of his own pocket.
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OS X Mavericks now available for free from the Mac App Store

By fantomas, in OSx86, October 22, 2013

Apple has done something it hasn’t done before with a major release of OS X, announcing today during its iPad event that it will release OS X Mavericks, the latest version of its desktop OS, later today for free to all users.
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Mavericks is available starting today for iMac and MacBook Pros from 2007 or later, 2008 MacBook Air, MacBook, and Mac Pro or later, and the 2009 Mac mini or later.
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Apple first showed off Mavericks back in June at its WWDC developer conference and has since seeded several betas as well as Golden Master release followed by silent update to the GM release that could likely be the version Apple ships later this month.
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Despite not receiving a radical visual overhaul like iOS 7, OS X Mavericks includes over 200 new features and many big new user facing features like iBooks, improved multiple display support, iCloud Keychain, new Finder features, Maps, quick reply and lock screen notifications, auto-updating apps, and a number of under the hood enhancements to improve battery life and performance.
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source forum discussion
- OS X
- 10.9
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iOS7 to be out in the next hours

By theconnactic, in OSx86, September 18, 2013

Today, iPhone users will be able to download the latest and greatest iOS iteration, deemed by Apple's Tim Cook as the biggest change to iOS since the iPhone. Will users embrace this new world? Or will they rather stay out, just like happens with then much anticipated Microsoft's Windows 8? The dice have already been rolled, but Apple better learned from Microsoft's mistakes, for its own good.

The biggest change perhaps began when Apple senior industrial designer, Jonathan Ive, also took over iOS design, after former iOS chief designer Scott Forstall. This is big deal: it's the first time ever this happens in the Cupertino giant's realm. Never a designer had so much power in the company. Not coincidentally, iOS7 will be a departure from much we know about iOS. Expect a less skeuomorphic, more flat design. Ironically, something in the lines Microsoft has been doing for a while with its Windows Phone user interface. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57603350-37/behold-jonathan-ives-apple/)
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Developers will have to adapt, and this adaptation period could lead to some trouble and this is a thing Apple should be a lot concerned with: since Android consolidated itself as serious competition - and market-share leader after that - one of the most heralded advantages of iOS devices to their usually cheaper Android alternatives was the solid rock stability of iOS, at the expense of user and developer's control of the environment. iOS has been up to now a safe and joyful garden with huge walls. Will costumers be willing to be inside this walls if it becomes not so safe and joyful? I don't think so, and neither do Apple, so they released tight rules for the App Store concerning the new iOS: in a few words, the apps which cannot adapt will be left out. I'm sure most developers had plenty of time to make the necessary changes with the various iOS7 betas, but it won't be surprising if a significant number of apps seem to be a little rushed out. (http://gigaom.com/2013/09/14/why-ios-7-forced-developers-to-redesign-their-apps-for-experienced-smartphone-users/)
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So, we're all waiting. It will be exciting? It will be frustrating? Today we'll know.
- IOS
- IOS7
- iPhone
- Apple
- jonathan ive
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Intel HD4000 and Haswell Inject AAPL,ig-platform-id

By ErmaC, in OSx86, September 2, 2013

Chameleon now has a bootloader-implementation from Enoch, through which you can activate the various video cards such as Intel Ivy Bridge and Haswell. All without dsdt edits or EFI strings.
This is especially useful for Laptops PC, but also for Desktop systems without a dedicated video card.
Keys available for org.chameleon.boot.plist, read below:
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During last week I redesign part of the Intel Injector (gam.c/gma.h)
due to the new hardware (Haswell).
Enoch Injector port to main Chameleon Trunk code: 2262
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FIRST OF ALL
I rename the key flag (thx Micky1979 and bcc9):
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- For Ivy Bridge the old keyflag HD4K-ig is now deprecated the new name is IntelCapriFB (match with Apple kext name for that hardware)
ex: IntelCapriFB=a_value from 0 to 11
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- For the Haswell the recently introduced key flag HD5K-ig is also deprecated and the new name is IntelAzulFB (Same things... match with Apple kext)
ex: IntelAzulFB=a_value from 0 to 15
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I also introduced the ability to inject a custom AAPL,ig-platform-id for both kind of gfx (Ivy & Haswell) the keyflag is InjectIntel-ig
ex: InjectIntel-ig=09006601 (a flipped 01660009)
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The priority is:
1° InjectIntel-ig
2° IntelXxxxFB
3° the default setting (based on BIOS memory for Ivy, and default ig for Haswell)
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Example of data into org.chameleon.Boot.plist
<key>InjectIntel-ig</key><string>09006601</string>
<key>IntelCapriFB</key><string>9</string>
<key>IntelAzulFB</key><string>9</string> Here we go:
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/files/file/59-chameleon-23-svn/
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News! Pandora's Box Beta2 is OUT

By ErmaC, in OSx86, June 20, 2013

Pandora's Box beta2

Pandora's Box is a new Tool that can be used to create your own installer for Lion 10.7, Mountain Lion 10.8 and newly arrived Mavericks 10.9 from either the retail app or its .dmg image file.
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Also included is a post-installation utility to apply additional fixes after installing or updating OS X.
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These features are great, but you will see Pandora's Boxbeta2 also adds some additional functionality to the installation process. Since much of the configuration and customization can be done during the OS X installation process, once completed, you can immediate boot into your newly working OS X install without any additional setup.
Pandora's Boxbeta2 is available for download in our Downloads Section
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Here is the complete change log from Beta1:
Newly designed interface with preference and settings
Added HTML Credits System integrated directly into Pandora
Added the Help manual (integrated in OS X)
Added Sparkle Software (self Update of Pandora's Box)
Added support for OS X 10.9 Mavericks DP1
Added check for missing MBR patch (to continue in GUID)
Fixed bugs with bootloader in post-install
Fixed bugs with creating the Recovery HD partition
Fixed bug with missing AppleIntelE1000.kext installation
Added kernel flags and Intel HD4000 support to the bootloader options
Added modules for Enoch bootloader
Enlarged Laptop section, with two different kexts for battery support, LegacyAGPM.kext for better power management of Nvidia cards (different for Lion and ML).
AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext patch, available during installation
Added log system (during installation and post-installation), with "notifications" in ML and Mavericks.
Added RTC patch for Mavericks
Added GenericUSBXHCI.kext, for Lion, ML and new build for Mavericks
Added AppleATIATA.kext (ATI PATA and SATA controllers)
Switch from Trim patches to Trim Enabler.app for non-Apple SSD
Added latest HWmonitor stuff from kozlek project (FakeSMC.kext, Plugins and HWmonitor.app)
Added Rotate Daemon (fix for AMD7000 cards)
Added OpenCL patches for Lion and ML in differents cards/OS X versions
Added Intel HD4000-HD3000 support on 6/7 Series chipset
Added Desktop version of LegacyAGPM.kext for better power management of Nvidia cards (different for Lion and ML).
Added Repair permission and rebuild caches on others Volumes
Added Backup Hackintosh files function
Improve stability on each OS X versions when creating the Pandora System Options (on the fly).
Deleted the ACPI folders, now the .aml tables can leave into InsanelyBox directly.
Other minor bug fixes

Watch and Participate to the Beta2 Testing here: Pandora's Box (Beta 2 Testing)
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InsanelyMac Staff
- Pandora
- InsanelyMac
- Tools
- Instaler
- Bootloader
- Utility
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