Antipop stops your speakers from popping when they turn on

On your Hackintosh, your audio speakers might make a loud popping sound whenever you turn them on. Mac OS X automatically powers off external speakers to save electricity, and powering them back on causes these popping sounds. This usually happens when you boot your Hackintosh, or when you start playing music/videos after a period of inactivity.

How to extract icons from Mac apps

Another quick tip today: if you need a high-quality image of an application's icon, you can actually extract the icon from the application itself. Unlike in Windows, extracting app icons from Mac OS X is very easy. This isn't a Hackintosh-specific tip, but it's something that everybody should know how to do.

Showdown: The Best Chameleon Helper

Champlist, Chameleon Wizard, and Chameleon Prefpane are helper apps designed to offer a graphical user interface (GUI) for the settings of Chameleon bootloader, the program that Hackintoshes use to boot Mac OS X. On some Hackintoshes, the default settings for Chameleon bootloader work perfectly, but most of the time, you have to fiddle with Chameleon's settings to get everything running. You can change the settings for Chameleon bootloader by manually editing preference files within your computer, but if you prefer point-and-click, then you may want to use a helper instead. In this post, we compare the three most popular Chameleon helpers to see which one offers the most seamless Hackintoshing experience.