Mac OSX Bootable RecoreveryHD :)

This great great app (Boot Disk Utility by Cvad) helped me make a Mac bootable flash drive with the OSX RecoveryHD ...
here is the full story :

I was trying to install windows on my iMac using the regular bootcamp procedure..
but something went horribly wrong, and I ended up with a fully wiped hard disk!!
and to my disappointment, all OSX Installation methods available to me at the time did not work!!

So I started researching and found this app...
within the app itself is the following help text:

    HOW-TO create a Clover Bootable Flash drive
    with MAC OS X HD Recovery:

1. Fine-tune the BDU [Configuration] (By default, not required).
2. Select any Flash Drive (may be tested on virtual or hard drives, too).
3. [Format] selected Flash Drive into 2 partitions:
    Clover bootloader will be automatically installed to the 1st Partition.
4. Open [Download Center], [Update] HD Recovery Download List
    and [DL] any Apple MAC OS X HD Recovery. HFS-Image will be
    automatically extracted from pkg to the BDUImage Local Repo.
5. [Restore ...] HFS-Image file to the 2nd Disk Partition
6. Enjoy :-)

PS; I found some interesting results when searching by:
RecoveryHDUpdate inurl:swscan.apple.com
RecoveryHDUpdate.pkg inurl:swscan.apple.com
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Sherlock S04 E02 IS UNBELIEVABLE!!

Well.. I had to write about this :)

"The Lying Detective "

An episode of the amazing British series of Crime, Drama, Mystery, And Awesomeness :) :) :)
I was lured into watching this single episode two times IN A ROW...
Can you believe that ?!! I watched the same episode TWICE in the same evening :) :) :) :)
And I enjoyed the second time more than the first  :) :) :)
And I can't stop smiling  :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
That's all I'm going to say about this for now  :) :)
Go do yourself a favor and have a heavenly 1.5 hours of joy :) :)
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Allocation unit size...

Which Allocation Unit Size Works Best?
(From a makeuseof article by Tina Sieber)

Hard drives are organized in (allocation units) called clusters and the allocation unit size is the size of a single cluster.
The file system records the state of each cluster, i.e. free or occupied. Once a file or a portion of a file is written to a cluster, the cluster is occupied, regardless of whether or not there is still space. Hence, larger clusters can lead to more wasted or slack space. With smaller clusters, however, the drive becomes slower as each file is broken up into smaller pieces and it takes much longer to draw them all together when the file is accessed.
So the optimal allocation unit size depends on what you want to do with your USB drive. If you want to store large files on that drive, a large cluster size is better as the drive will be faster. If, however, you want to store small files or run programs off your flash drive, a smaller cluster size will help preserve space.

Rule of thumb: large drive and/or large files = large allocation unit size

For a 500 MB USB flash drive, rather select 512 bytes (FAT32) or 32 kilobytes (FAT). On a 1 TB external hard drive select 64 kilobytes (NTFS).

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USB flas drive fix

So.. I was trying to fix an old USB flash drive ... a  512 MB :) just for fun. and I thought I should share what worked for me...


http://www.flashdrive-repair.com/search/label/SSS%20Firmware

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2jvhmKQdstPVGNyR204b3p5UW8
the tool with the !!! is the one that worked for me
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Booting from BIOS vs UEFI, what is going on?

So I was trying to understand the difference between ordinary PC booting and MAC OSX, and I've come across a lot of new -to me!- tech jargon like: CSM - UEFI - EFI. Also, I found this app "BootDiskUtility" that uses this boot loader "Clover" to do something very weird like booting OSX on a PC !! very new stuff to me :)

Found this great article describing the UEFI technology:

https://www.happyassassin.net/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/
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Ad blocking dilemma

Anti - Anti - Ad Blocking is here  !! :) :)
check this out:
https://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/




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Torrentz All in One is all over :(

After the take down of the great Torrentz.eu, I was left in a vast lake of sorrow :( , I really really liked that site...
But after a while, I found some mirrors for the same site, and that was really great, but I used to have a user script that made Torrentz even better.. "Torrentz All in One".. this user script used to add really useful options to Torrentz, or like its developer say:
"IT Does everything you wish Torrentz could do!"
The situation became unbearable when I found out that "" -the script developer- has abandoned the project :(....
After a long search I found a FORK that was taken by "" before the take-down of the project..  then I decided to write this blog post in order to share this info and to "save" a copy of the last version of the code in case it gets deleted again...



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