I just got this beautiful Dell Inspiron 7352 Broadwell i7-5500u (5th edition), the Windows 8.1 trackpad is working horribly. I decided to make it into a perfect MacBook Air7,2 wanna be. Here is how I did it. To have more information on how to create a “mac wanna be” check out this post. Please don’t […]
Someone brought up an error on extracting payload on Yosemite and El Capitan with 7Z in Windows. Yes, since Yosemite and El Capitan, we can’t extract the essential.pkg to get the Kernels using 7z in Windows. You have to get the Kernels from the Mac OS X using Pacifist. So, for those who don’t have […]
If you dual boot Windows and Mac OS X, sometimes, you will encounter an error when emptying the trash bin in Mac. The file that cause the problem is fseventsd-uuid from Windows. The only way to fix it is to boot to Windows and run disk repair or chkdsk. When it’s done, boot back to […]
If you have dual boot set up for Windows (8.1) and Mac OS X (Yosemite) on the same computer (laptop), you may notice the time of Windows is different from the time display in Mac or vice versa. Most PC or Windows Laptop, the time was set to Windows registry. If we want both have […]
When I played mp4 movies with subtitle embedded, Quicktime shows default subtitle with black background which cover parts of the screen. I want the background to be transparent, so I make a custom subtitle as default with transparent background. We need to go to Preference -> Accessibility -> Captions Click the + button […]
Alright, many people got problems creating a chameleon USB boot drive for their OS X installation. I’ve tested a simple Chameleon R2588 version USB boot drive to work with OS X: Yosemite, Mavericks and Mountain Lion. I tested the boot with 3 OS Xs and 3 laptops: Sandy Bridge (2nd generation HD3000), Ivy Bridge (3rd […]
Windows 10 Preview is available for download, I tried it on Yosemite 10.10.1 VM VirtualBox and it works very well. Now, I don’t have to boot to Windows 8.1 to use some Windows Software any more. Settings Mount CD/DVD with Windows10.iso downloaded. […]
On my HP 15-u011dx x360 – i7-4510u and HD 4400 graphics, the preview of Yosemite 10.10.1 was so slow, lagging and washout color. The Graphic kext seems to load fine. Thanks to Rehabman again, I added 2 FakePCIID.kexts and it did solve the problem. All we need to do is to put the 2 kexts […]
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