On Tuesday I detailed
how how I built a Hackintosh Mac from start to finish on the cheap, but one obvious question remained unanswered: How does my Hackintosh stack up to the Apple-built competition? To find out, I put my Hackintosh, a Mac Pro, and a MacBook Pro through the paces. Here’s what I learned. First, it’s worth noting that none of these setups is a perfect match for benchmarking comparisons. The Mac Pro is running two dual core 2.66 GHz processors versus the single dual core 2.21 GHz Hackintosh and 2 GHz MacBook Pro processors. Likewise, the Hackintosh has a whopping 4GB of RAM versus a measly 1GB in the Mac Pro and 2GB in the MacBook Pro. Also, the Hackintosh and MacBook Pro are both running Leopard, while the Mac Pro is still running Tiger. These aren’t necessarily the ideal test subjects, but they’re the machines I have access to. That said, the results are still very interesting.
Category: General
Bebo Teams up with Ustream.tv
Here’s some of the latest news: BEBO joined with Ustream.tv. See it here at : http://www.Ustream.tv/Blog
You can also check out the Bebo-Ustream site to see ustream in action.
The one thing I really enjoy and respect about Ustream is their staff. As an example, Brad Hunstable (co-founder). He told Miketechshow he has a special announcement tonight on his show. So everyone people join us at 7pm EST on Ustream.tv and find out what else Brad has in store for Miketechshow and his listeners, It should be interesting.
Save a Link for Later with Read It Later
Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Keep track of your daily to-read list with the Read it Later Firefox extension. Similar to previously mentioned Readeroo—which integrates directly with Del.icio.us—Read it Later takes a slightly different approach, keeping your reading list local until you read it and decide whether or not you want to bookmark it. If you do, you have the option to bookmark on any number of popular bookmarking sites, from Del.icio.us to Digg. The drawback is that Read it Later doesn’t currently sync across browsers, which would be a nice touch. Read it Later is free, works wherever Firefox does.
Another great extension for Firefox.
Install Greasemonkey Scripts in Safari with GreaseKit
Mac users: Web site Simplehelp steps through how to run Greasemonkey user scripts in Safari with free tools SIMBL (a patching tool for Cocoa apps) and GreaseKit (previously posted as Creammonkey). Unfortunately not every Greasemonkey script will work with GreaseKit (though the project appears to be striving toward that end), and my favorite Greasemonkey script, previously mentioned Gmail Macros, doesn’t work with it yet, but most scripts should work. Hopefully in time Safari addicts can take advantage of all of the Greasemonkey user scripts that add so much to Firefox.
Mimic Time Machine with rsync
Like the concept of Leopard’s Time Machine but aren’t running Leopard on your machine? The IMHO weblog steps through how to mimic the backup chops of Leopard using the rsync command line tool. By default rsync is Unix-only tool, but we’ve covered how to use rsync on Windows as well, so this method applies to pretty much everyone. And while you won’t get the stylish graphical interface of Leopard’s Time Machine, you will get incremental, full backups of your drive.
