The Tech Loft

This is the PROPER way to clone a hackintosh hard drive. I had my hackintosh built with an 80 GB hard drive. The reason for using such a small drive was because it was of no cost (pretty much). I recently acquired a brand new Western Digital 1TB Cavier BLUE hard drive from $69.99. It was a decent price, so I jumped on the deal so I can clone my 80 GB drive to the 1TB drive. At first I thought it was a matter of using a cloning application and that was it, but it wasn’t THAT simple. Cloning software copies everything but BOOT files. So what does this mean? It meant I had to write BOOT file to the drive so it can BOOT UP! Chameleon has a GUI installer which did not work and others have reported that Chameleon has failed for them too…so Chameleon is SHIT. Sorry to say, but it’s true. Here’s what I did: Download, installed and ran Carbon Copy. Copied the entire HDD to the new Western Digital drive Download MULTIBEAST. Opened and drilled down to the Bootloader section...

It’s an old trope, one that has almost entirely lost its meaning over time, but there’s another Linux distro that is designed for the average (or slightly below average) computer user. This one, however, is about as close as any have come to creating an idiot-proof Linux distro. Pinguy OS (www.pinguyos.com) is based on Ubuntu and is mighty fun to play with. A Little Background Pinguy OS was built by a fellow named Antoni Norman who wanted a Linux OS that he could give to friends and family – without haing to constantly provide tech support. He’d been recommending Ubuntu but grew frustrated with how stark it was. Even though it’s relatively easy to add software, codecs, and the like with Ubuntu’s repositories, he found that many novice users were still having trouble finding everything they needed to make their system work as they wanted it to. What’s somewhat amusing about Pinguy OS is that it has a certain Mac feel to it. It’s pretty, it...

Great news, PlayStation 3 game save are moving ‘ to the cloud ‘! If you have suffered from the dreaded Red Light of Death (RLoD) or Yellow Light of Death (YLoD) like I have, this is welcome news from Sony! The only catch is that ‘ game saves to the cloud ‘ is available through a PlayStation Plus subscription. Now like I have mentioned, I have suffered data loss from the RLoD and I lost ALL my game saves..it SUCKED! Presently, I’m not a PlayStation Plus subscriber, but the cloud based service is definitely making PlayStation Plus a very attractive service. Another ‘plus’ about PlayStation Plus game saves is that you can login to any PlayStation 3 (PS3) and access your game save and continue your game from ANY CONSOLE (PS3 of course)! Yes, it looks like a lot of people may be joining PlayStation Plus, especially with the fear that their console maybe failing soon! Come to think of it, I think it’s just wrong for PS3 owners to accept the fact...