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A new hack by a Chinese manufacturer will allow a user to make an iPhone 4/4S’s Apple logo glow. Much like the MacBook’s, the logo will glow once you turn the device on.

K.O. Gadget, the maker of this mod, said it can be done at home in less than five minutes. For $42, K.O. Gadget will send you the kit to perform this hack, but it would void an iPhone’s warranty.

The mod is easy because all you’re doing is replacing the back panel on the iPhone. The backpanel has a transparent Apple logo that allows light to pass through, but the key is the “light strip” that is added in. You can see the addition in the video below.

The light strip and custom backing doesn’t add any thickness to the device, because it uses the same glass material that Apple uses. K.O. Gadget also said there isn’t any over heating issues or battery life issues.

If you’re the adventurous type, this is something definitely worth checking out. Check out the install process below:

(via MIC Gadget)

• Remove the 2 screws flanking the iPhone’s dock connector port
• Slide open and remove the rear panel
• Remove the 5 screws near the flash
• Lift up the power connector of the screen
• Position the light panel, then connect and mount it using the 3M sticker (details will be provided after purchase)
• Replace the 5 screws near the flash
• Slide on the included rear panel with the transparent logo (so that the light is visible through it)
• Replace the 2 remaining screws flanking the dock connector port

If you are using slow connection like me and trying to download the apples iPhone SDK , then you already know how much tough it is , because of apple only allow to download this file after login. And non of the download manager can give you the resume facility. so after trying 2 days with different downloaders i tried wget and got sucess

Here i am discribing how to do it. First login to http://developer.apple.com/iphone (if you don’t have any account, just create one, it’s free). then use firefox extension to export (firebug+firecookie) cookie to cookie.txt . Then rest of the task simple. just copy download link from http://developer.apple.com/iphone and give the following command in the console.

$cd /path/to/cookie.txt

$ wget  -ct 0 –load-cookies cookie.txt your_file_url

that’s all, now you can resume download without any problem. Here is the command i used to download to download it.

$ wget  -ct 0 –server-response –load-cookies cookies.txt http://developer.apple.com/iphone/download.action?path=/iphone/iphone_sdk_3.0__final/iphone_sdk_3.0__leopard__9m2736__final.dmg

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one of my friends who has been using macbook for last 1 year, he was so pleased that helped apple to get free market promotion from him.

however macbook didn’t treat that way as he was treating her. suddenly he discovered his macbook with uncertain problem. after trying this and that he hadn’t found any way out.

so one fine day when we achieved our victory (16th december) he got victory for himself too.
it was his RAM baby!, one of the ram was damaged.

after 2 days struggling finally he got the problem, though he tried with local apple dealers but none could help on this issue.

later he discovered apple has very user friendly simple way out to diagnosis your mac system.

hold “D” key while you booting your macbook, you should see a self checking panel. where you would find “test” button, just go and click to see what went wrong with your macbook.

after few seconds to minutes passed you would find some error code, search it on apple support.

thats all, thats how he could fix his problem i guess if you face the same kinda problem now you know how simple it is.

btw, actually he had RAM problem which was occurred because of stupid hard reset while his computer was busy with 100% processor consumption.

still not getting your reason? hold apple + V while you booting your macbook to get in verbose mode.

best wishes,

this post will help them who are using hacked iPhone and mac os x 10.5.6(released December 15th ‘08). if you want to jailbreak or upgrade the firmware of your iPhone using mac os v10.5.6(released December 15th ‘08) then you have to follow these steps otherwise your new mac os will not support to upgrade your hacked iPhone. it’s unclear if apple did this intentionally or if it’s a bug in the kernel.

you are required to be logged in as an administrator and you must provide the admin password.

• checks if you are at mac os x 10.5.6 or better (if not will quit)
• quits all running apps (with save option)
• backup the original files (AppleUSBHub.kext and IOUSBCompositeDriver.kext from 10.5.6) in a new folder on your Desktop
• asks for your admin password
• copy AppleUSBHub.kext and IOUSBCompositeDriver.kext from 10.5.5 into the desired location on your mac
• set owner:group and permissions
• rebuild the kextcache
• reboot your mac

download the automator application from here.

http://www.iphone-hacks.com/downloads/Install_IOUSBFamily_kext_10_5_5.zip

1. unzip the archive
2. place the “Install_IOUSBFamily_kext_10_5_5″ folder on your Desktop (This is important)
3. open the folder and start the application “Fix_DFU_10_5_6″
4. you will see the readme box (click “OK”)
5. provide your admin password

let the Application do it’s job

6. at the end the Finder will open another dialog box telling you that the cache is being rebuild, click “OK” or just leave the box alone. after a couple of seconds your mac will reboot automatically – done, DFU is enabled again and your mac os x is ready to jailbreak your hacked iPhone.

At my work, sometime i need to take screenshot of my desktop to make reports. I was using grab (mac pre installed software). But here my main problem is i have to press lot’s of keys(mouse). After googeling i found that there is another solution:

Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop
Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop
Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop
Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard
Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard
Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard

In Leopard, the following keys can be held down while selecting an area (via Command-Shift-4 or Command-Control-Shift-4):
Space, to lock the size of the selected region and instead move it when the mouse moves
Shift, to resize only one edge of the selected region
Option, to resize the selected region with its center as the anchor point

i found this information on this site . You can check there site, there you will get some more usefull info

Quick Look is a nice feature added in 10.5, I use it often for glancing at the content of various documents and it certainly beats launching an application. If you’re an avid command line user though, you may be browsing through a directories contents and wondering just what is that JPG or DOC file. Wonder no more, because you can easily use Quick Look from the command line:

From the command line, use the following syntax:

qlmanage -p filename.jpg

This will launch a Quick Look window with whatever file is specified as ‘filename.jpg’, the file type can be anything that Quick Look is compatible with (which seems to be just about everything).

The qlmanage command has other abilities, here is the full flag list, courtesy of qlmanage -h:


Usage: qlmanage [OPTIONS] path...
-h Display this help
-r Force reloading Generators list
-p Show a preview of the documents
-t Show thumbnails of the documents
-s size Size for the thumbnail
-f factor Scale factor for the thumbnail
-c contentTypeUTI Force the content type used for the documents
-g generator Force the generator to use

As most of the ISP now following the MAC base network security, some time you may need to change your mac book/iMac’s ethernet cards MAC address. It’s now too simple on mac os x. just open a terminal and paste this command, and don’t forget to change this command with your correct mac address.

sudo ifconfig en0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff

That’s it. Now check the magic

The Mac OS GUI and all it’s eye candy is a pleasure to use and look at. By holding down the Shift key, you can slow down virtually any Aqua effect in Mac OS X, from minimization to expose. If you want something truly useless but kind of fun, you can make the slow effect permanent by typing the following command in the Terminal:

Enable Slow Animations:
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation -bool true
Disable Slow Animations (default):
defaults write com.apple.finder FXEnableSlowAnimation -bool false
For changes to take effect, you’ll need to reload the Finder either by logging in and out, or by killing the Finder. You can kill the Finder via the command line by typing:
killall Finder

If you use your Mac on a cross platform network often, you’ve surely run into the obnoxious creation of .DS_Store files. If you’re curious what the file is used for, DS_Store is a hidden file for Mac OS X that stores various bits of data for the Finder to remember, like icon position, making it completely useless for anyone besides you to see. By default, your Mac will create the .DS_Store file’s all over the place including accessed computers that aren’t Macs, creating an annoying mess for network users to find. Thankfully you can easily turn off the creation of DS_Store files on network connections:

Stop .DS_Store file creation on network shares

Launch the Terminal and type the following exactly:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
Restart your Mac and you will no longer have those pesky .DS_Store files appearing every time you browse a network share.