When Apple killed Atom processor abutment in the Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update, it was one of the aboriginal times they'd actively approved to stop hobbyist hackintoshing. It was aswell array of a dick move! Luckily, it's not traveling to stick.

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The (main) man abaft the NetbookInstaller software, which takes affliction of abundant of the under-the-hood tweaks to accomplish netbook hackintoshing approachable, heard the beefing cries of his flock, and handed down a decree from on high:

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The atom will be fixed. It'll just yield a few weeks.

This certainty, accumulated with the flip-flopping Atom affinity in beforehand 10.6.2 builds, credibility to the accident as an advised choice, not just some accidental bug. Update: Actually, there's an absorbing case to be fabricated the 10.6.2 dead Atom in all builds of the update. Interesting. —Thanks, Eduardo!

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Even better, for anyone who affable beeline into the 10.6.2 amend alone to acquisition themselves actual al of a sudden without a alive netbook, there's a quick fix: Downgrade your kernel! Application the aforementioned apprenticeship set you can do a fractional (excluding the kernel) advancement to 10.6.2, but you're apparently just best off cat-and-mouse until aggregate is patched up appropriate and proper. [Meklort, MyDellMini]

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So a Nexus 5 allegedly got larboard at a bar. It happens! And if it happens, pictures get taken and we advantageous association get to see what one of the a lot of advancing phones of the year looks like up close. It matches up absolutely accurately with the leaked buzz in the Android 4.4 Kit Kata promo video—horizontal Nexus branding, ample camera lens—and absolutely seems to be the aforementioned LG buzz canoeing through the FCC appropriate now.

Really, there's no abruptness with the Nexus 5 anymore. If leaks alpha analogous added leaks that bout that aforementioned aperture that shows the aforementioned thing, you're appealing abundant searching at the absolute deal. This is the next Nexus phone. And now that the Nexus 4 is off the agenda shelves, this is apparently the Nexus 5.

The phone—which acutely reads NOT FOR SALE on the aback and is fabricated by LG—has the beautifully apple-pie button-less foreground face we've developed acclimated to in the Nexus band but is beneath angled (a acceptable thing) than antecedent Nexus phones. It looks like what all phones attending like these days, which is mostly a acceptable thing. We'll see if that's accurate in absolute activity anon enough.

[9to5Google via GSM Arena, Thanks Richard!]

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You ability anamnesis a brace of weeks ago, a dude got hassled by airport aegis because they couldn't accomplish faculty of his MacBook Air. Turns out, it in fact does attending "very different" than 99 percent of the notebooks they're acclimated to seeing beneath the scanner, in a way that would "pique some interest" of aegis personnel, according to the TSA's Blogger Bob.

The culprit? Its solid accompaniment drive. Which agency any anthology with a SSD could've gotten your ass bankrupt by the Feds. Helpfully, they've back broadcast photos of what SSD notebooks attending like to aegis personnel, abbreviation your affairs of a affable atrium search. [TSA Blog via TUAW]

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To use Photoshop like a pro, you charge to apperceive your keyboard shortcuts—but with so abounding to remember, you can calmly feel added amateur than ever. This alternate app should advice you out, by cogent you in a breath which keys will advice you get to work.

Application Shortcut Mapper was created by Waldo Bronchart, and it's an alternate web app advised to be "a beheld shortcuts charlatan for accepted applications." So far, it caters for Photoshop, Lightroom and Blender. The keyboard blueprint is apparent as it would be if you accessible the program, cogent you what keys will advice you out. But it gets better: columnist addition key, like Shift or Space, and the affectation changes to acquaint you what anniversary key will now do. It's all color-coded, too, so you apperceive which key brings about what change if you've chased down a accurate keyboard aerial hole.

Of course, you could use a keyboard bury but (i) they amount and (ii) they don't change with keyboard presses either. In comparison, this is way better. It currently supports Windows, OS X and Linux and just the three above software packages—but it's accessible antecedent and on GitHub, so you can apprehend the account to abound with time. Go analysis it out. [Application Shortcut Mapper via Reddit via Peta Pixel]

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The little iPad Mini just got some big changes as appear in today's Apple accident — aboriginal and foremost getting a 7.9 inch Retina display. It's aswell got faster audacity after growing out of its angular little body. How's it run? Hands-on impressions say it's a accustomed iPad with a awning that'll draft your hair back.

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The Verge

[O]ur aboriginal consequence is that it's an accepted change from endure year — but sometimes that's all it takes to accomplish a abundant product. The aforementioned 7.9-inch affectation now appearance four times the pixels, a abounding 2048 x 1536 resolution, which makes argument aciculate and readable. Just as importantly, it makes iOS 7 attending abundant bigger than it does on the aboriginal iPad mini, which generally feels a little out of abode on lower resolutions. iOS 7 aswell allowances from the iPad mini's new 64-bit A7 processor, authoritative scrolling and aggregate abroad conspicuously faster and smoother. As with the iPhone 5S, though, some of that acceleration feels throttled by Apple's accommodation to accomplish you delay for overly-long alteration animations if affective amid folders and apps.

Cnet

The new book feels absolutely like the aboriginal bearing iPad Mini. This is a acceptable affair back the aboriginal Mini has a abreast absolute feel. However, while it feels great, it's all about that screen. And accustomed the Mini's abate 7.9-inch size, looks even bluff than the full-size iPad Air. However, to yield advantage of the new pixel-dense screen, you will be paying up over endure year's Mini. It's attractive however, so I'd brainstorm the new exceptional will absolutely be account it to some. Apple says the new iPad Mini is four times faster than endure year's archetypal and has eight times the cartoon performance, while still provided a declared 10 hours of array life. While that's acceptable and all, the aboriginal bearing iPad Mini isn't absolutely a achievement monster, abnormally in the gaming department.

SlashGear

TechCrunch

The eye-boggling 2048 x 1536 awning looks accomplished in person, and for anyone advancing from a bearing one accessory it’s traveling to be a affecting change. The iPad mini itself is absolute hardly thicker and added than its antecedent to board the Retina Affectation with the aforementioned array life, abacus 0.01 inches and 0.05 pounds to the specs of the original, but that makes basal aberration to the absolute feel of the artefact in the hand.

AnandTech

Ars Technica

[N]on-Retina displays are assuming their age these days. The Retina mini fixes this absolutely with its 2048×1536 7.9-inch display. Putting the aforementioned resolution in a abate awning makes for an even bluff affectation than the iPad Air, and iOS 7's attenuate fonts attending accomplished on the new screen. It looks and feels like the aforementioned book as endure year, admitting it is absolute hardly thicker and added than it was endure year: it weighs 0.73 pounds instead of 0.68 and is 0.29 inches blubbery instead of 0.28. The aberration isn't abundant to accomplish the new mini adverse with accessories for the old one, nor is it simple to acquaint the aberration if you're in fact captivation the book in your hands, but it is there.

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