VirtualBox is great for testing out a new operating system, but your virtual machines probably aren’t that special when you first set them up. Here are a few tips for making them much easier to use—not to mention more powerful. Read more…
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The Power User’s Guide to Better Virtual Machines in VirtualBox
Firefox’s long-awaited redesign is finally available to all, along with a few improvements to customization and Firefox Sync. Read more…
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Firefox Gets a Brand New, Even More Customizable Design
Apple’s computers come with all kinds of warranty options. From basic tech support to AppleCare, it’s easy to lose track of when your warranty expires. Thankfully, The Sweet Setup reminds us that it’s actually really easy to track your warranty info right on Apple’s site. Read more…
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How to Find Out If Your Apple Device is Still Covered by a Warranty
Building a hackintosh—that is, installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware—used to require extremely restricted hardware choices and quite a bit of know-how. Now your options are vast and the installation process is fairly simple. With that in mind, here is our always up-to-date guide to building a hackintosh that will walk you through purchasing compatible parts, building your machine, and installing OS X all on your own. Read more…
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The Always Up-to-Date Guide to Building a Hackintosh (OS X 10.9.2)
angry tapir writes “As the number of top-level domains undergoes explosive growth, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is studying ways to reduce the risk of traffic intended for internal network destinations ending up on the Internet via the Domain Name System. Proposals in a report produced on behalf of ICANN include preventing .mail, .home and .corp ever being Internet TLDs; allowing the forcible de-delegation of some second-level domains in emergencies; and returning 127.0.53.53 as an IP address in the hopes that sysadmins will flag and Google it.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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ICANN Considers Using ‘127.0.53.53’ To Tackle DNS Namespace Collisions
An anonymous reader writes “GNU MacChanger’s developer has found by chance that The Coca-Cola company got a range of MAC addresses allocated at the OUI, the IEEE Registration Authority in charge of managing the MAC addresses spectrum. What would Coca-Cola want around 16 million MAC addresses reserved? What are they planning to use them for? Could this part of a strategy around the Internet-of-things concept?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Coca-Cola Reserves a Massive Range of MAC Addresses
OS X: Some games have gamepad and joystick controls functional out of the box. Some don’t. For the latter, a little app called Joystick Mapper can allow you to use any compatible controller with any game—whether it supports your gamepad/joystick or not. Read more…
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Joystick Mapper Makes Your Favorite Mac Gamepad Work with Any App
When you run a command with sudo in Linux, the terminal prompts you to type in your password—and doesn’t give you any visual feedback. Here’s a quick tweak that’ll bring back those familiar asterisks (*) when you type in your password. Read more…
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Make Password Asterisks Visible in Your Linux Terminal
The Macbook Air is a far cry from a gaming computer, but that didn’t stop Tech Inferno forum member kloper from hacking together a system to play high end games on a nice graphics card on an Macbook Air. Read more…
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Hack a High End Graphics Card Into a Macbook Air
The company says that it’s planning to create 5, 000 more jobs for fulfillment centers around the country, and also has already started hiring 2, 000 new customer service employees. [Read more]
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Amazon: We’re hiring 7,000 new workers in the U.S.