Netkas made public a method  to emulate an EFI environment using a specially modified darwin bootloader . In practical terms, it means that regular PCs meeting a minimum set of hardware requirements can now be “seen” as real Macintosh Computers by the OS, allowing the use of unmodified, “stock” Apple kernels and thus giving a more transparent and reliable operation. Several methods to give real world usage to this innovative solution have raised all around the net. An explanation of this achievement along with an usage guide is provided by DigitMemo.com

Check out DigitMemo.com HERE.

Wallpaper Clocks and Desktopia are great freeware programs that set time-specific wallpapers to your desktop, providing you with a fun and effective way to keep an eye on the time with attractive wallpapers. Wallpaper Clocks uses a refresh function to refresh your wallpaper every minute to display the current time and date. Desktopia changes your desktop wallpaper at user-defined periods. (though you could set completely different wallpapers to remind you to change work modes or tasks). Wallpaper Clocks and Desktopia are more great freeware, Mac OS X only.

Get Desktopia HERE.

Get Wallpaper Clocks HERE.

Being a Mac owner is a hard thing sometimes. Even harder when you have to pay $30 for Transmit to manage your ftp connections. Well, those days have changed. There’s a new kid on the block shaking things up named Cyberduck. Cyberduck has an easy to use interface, intergrates seamlessly with Growl, and has a nifty dashboard widget for seamless drag and drop operations.

Check Cyberduck out here :  http://cyberduck.ch/

For some time, people only understand that GPU (graphics processing unit) is only used for processing and manipulating computer graphics. A better GPU can process more data and resulting in a faster and better view of a graphics on your output device (mostly are monitors or screens).

In the future, GPU will not only being used to process computer graphics only, but can be used also to help application doing their job. Elcomsoft has filed a patent for revolutionary technique to recover lost passwords by combining CPU and GPU resulting a faster process. It’s said that this combination will decrease the time that it takes to perform password recovery by a factor of up to 25.

The logic behind this idea is that most modern GPU can process fixed-point calculation, not only floating-point which is used by many cryptography algorithm. As we already knew, GPU has higher computational output than CPU, so if we can use this advantage, the user will be happier, since the process can be reduced in a manner of time. Devices are also utilized, so it’s a win win solutions. VGA Card vendor such as NVidia is also supporting this by launching CUDA:

NVIDIA® CUDA™ technology is a fundamentally new computing architecture that enables the GPU to solve complex computational problems in consumer, business, and technical applications. CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) technology gives computationally intensive applications access to the tremendous processing power of NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) through a revolutionary new programming interface.

This technology could bring a home edition of supercomputer by combining CPU and GPU to do quite-complex computational in personal computer in the future. What a brilliant ideas.

Hitting ALT-Crtl-Del gets to be annoying at times, especially if you’re remoted into your VPS or dedicated box and key combinations aren’t set up properly. This nifty little program has a ton of features that make managing rogue tasks and memory killers quite simply. I’ve listed a few of the key features below:

• Resides in system tray: processes are listed straight from the system tray icon, with submenus for processes, applications, and services
• Display: the icons for individual processes/programs are displayed, making it easy to identify the different programs/processes at a glance. You also have the option to list the full path for each entry on the hard drive, which might clutter your list a little bit but can be very valuable. The memory consumption for each process/app is also displayed.
• Color coding: problematic processes or ones that are taking an inordinate amount of resources are listed in red for easy identification. Known system processes are displayed in green.
• Hotkeys: you can assign hotkeys that can display the list of running processes, the list of running apps, or the list of services. Alternately, a hotkey to display a popup menu of processes with submenus for apps and services.
• Smart Kill: is a mode you can enable that aims to “kill applications more safely”, according to the developer’s website. No further info is provided.
• Exclusion list: this is where you can define apps and or processes that, for whatever reason, you do NOT want Task Killer to display in its lists.
• Command line: is supported.