Posts from 2010

High PageRank domains discovered while building R2G Tools are for sale — including PR3, PR5, and PR7 domains in marketing, healthcare, and general niches.

How R2G Tools, a dropped-domain search engine, was built with MongoDB, MySQL, CodeIgniter, Lighttpd, Varnish, and memcached running on three commodity servers.

Find your iPhone or iPod Touch UDID without Xcode by clicking the Serial Number label in iTunes to reveal the Identifier field, then copying it from the Edit menu.

Boot the patched iPC DVD and install Mac OS X 10.5.6 on AMD hardware, selecting NVInject and OSx86 tools during the customise step for a successful installation.

Fix the iPC OSx86 DVD stuck at "Still waiting for root device" by adding nForce SATA kexts and rebuilding Extensions.mkext — requires an existing Mac OS X install.

Install Mac OS X 10.5.8 on a non-Apple AMD Athlon X2 with nVidia GeForce 6100 hardware — an overview of required downloads and the five-step installation process.

An xkcd Science Montage comic contrasting how science looks in movies versus actual scientific practice — a funny and painfully accurate observation.