Lot’s of sites have been consulted to prepare this guide. Special thanks to Taranfx and Technojunkies, iHackintosh, InsanelyMac. This guide might not be perfect yet (no guide is perfect, yet)

We need two disks. Why ? – Snow Leopard needs a Leopard Install — One HDD with Leopard already installed and Second hard disk for Snow Leopard. UPDATE: Now, you can use Flash Drive too (8GB)

Before you begin, download the pre-requisites -

1. Tools – MediaFire RapidShare
2. Kexts – MediaFire RapidShare
3. Chameleon 2.0 + EFI 10 – MediaFire RapidShare
4. Chameleon 1.0 + EFI 10 – MediaFire RapidShare
5. Misc. – MediaFire RapidShare
6. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow leopard Retail build 10A432 (As ususal, we won’t post links, google it)

Related link: How to Install Snow Leopard on PC

Let’s Roll

Step 1. Preparing the New Disk -

Make sure you have connected your second “New” Hard Disk or Flash Drive.

Boot into Leopard, launch Disk Utility from Spotlight. Partition your New disk with GUID partition scheme. Name the partition e.g. “New”. Now set yourself as the owner by running the following at drive’s Root.

sudo –s

chown 0:0 /Volumes/New

For USB only – Once you’ve formatted your USB disk as MacOS Extended (Journal) , head over Restore section and drag MacOS X Install DVD in the source column and your USB stick to destination and make sure you uncheck erase destination. Right click your USB stick and select Get Info. Do make sure that “Ignore ownership” for this device is unchecked. If you’re having issues with permission, later on, do check this back.

Step2. Installing DMG -

Now, Mount the Snow Leopard DMG File.

Next, Installer window will pop-up, click on the free space anywhere in window and press key sequence – CMD + Shift + G . A small window will appear on top of the existing window. Here, type “Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages/”, and Go.

In the next window, locate the “OSInstall.mpkg” and double click this package file to start Snow leopard Installation.

Note- Default “OSInstall.mpkg” works for GUID partitioned drive only. If you need to install on MBR, then google for Modified OSInstall.mpkg for MBR, download modified one and replace with default one.

Step 3. Customizing Install -

Go through the options and select your New drive. De-select all the stuff you don’t need like Printers, Languages, etc.. and wait for it to finish. It should take 5-10 minutes.

After its done installing, Don’t Reboot!

Now step 4. and onwards, we will install Bootloader and some important drivers (KExts), Patch DSDT and Install certain important system files, so, bear it with me.

Step 4. Installing BootLoader –

Unzip the Chameleon Bootloader, Install the “Chameleon-2-1.0-r431.pkg“ and then “Chameleon v2 Snow Leopard Support.pkg“ to the New Drive.

Note - If Snow Support Package Shows an Error, Then Follow

IMPORTANT – If Chameleon 2.0 gives you Kernel Panics then try reinstalling with Chameleon 1.0

Step 5. If you are using PCEFI bootloader on your existing OSx86 system then “Chameleon v2 Snow Leopard Support.pkg” will NOT serve the purpose.

In this case, you have two options:

Option 1. Either install the “Chameleon-2-1.0-r431.pkg” over your current 10.5.x Installation then reboot and do the process again (from Step 1). or

Option 2. Launch the “ShowAllFiles“ (included in “Tools”) and click Show. Then Navigate to the root of your New Drive and delete the “boot” file you see and replace it with the boot file included System Downloads. After replacing the boot file again launch the “ShowAllFiles“ and click Hide. Continue to Step 6.

Step 6. Patching DSDT -

From the downloaded Tools, Open the DSDT Patcher. Select “Darwin/Mac OS X” in Operating System, then select DSDT Patch in options and before hitting the Run DSDT Patcher button make sure to change the destination to “New” Drive.

Step 7. Installing KExts (Drivers)-

this assumes that you had downloaded all Kexts that might be needed for your system’s compatiblity. Place all the “kext files” in ”/New/Extra/Extensions”, and copy the Extensions folder in Extra to the desktop, and drag it to “Kext Utility“. “Kext utility” will actually repair your permission and generate a new Extension.mkext. Now, Move the Extensions folder and the extension.mkext back to “/Snow/Extra“

Step 8. Configuring boot.plist with EFiStudio -

Launch EFiStudio and look for your Display/Video Card through the drop down menu. Click add device and you will see some numbers, copy them.

Add the following XML to your com.apple.boot.plist in /New/Extra.

Graphics Mode
1280×1024×32
device-properties
–number you got with EFiStudio–

Save and Exit. Put the SMBios.plist into /New/Extra.

Update: Step 9 added

Step 9. If you added any driver kext to /New/System/Library/Extension, This step will rebuild the Extensions.mkext cache while booted in Snow Leopard. Reboot and go to Single User mode by typing the flag -x32 –s

Type the following commands:

/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mnt -uw /
kextcache -v 1 -t -m /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/Extensions.mkext /System/Library/Extensions/

Now Reboot and Fall in Love with the Snow Leopard -

UPDATE 1.

Basic Troubleshooting Guide

As promised, I added this section to give out better troubleshooting in case of any issues you might have come across.

For those who are getting Kernel Panics try to boot in 32 bit Mode + Safe mode using following Boot flag.

-x32 –v –x -f

Kernel Panic (IOATAFamily.kext) – Go to your New HDD , navigate it through /System/Library/Extensions and delete IOATAFamily.kext or simply replace IOATAFamily.kext with a patched kext from your Leopard installation or from netkas. If that fails , simply delete this kext. You’ll lose ATA support , however it would still install on your SATA drives. Just make sure its set to AHCI instead of IDE

Generic Kernel Panic on CPU – This problem is related with Chameleon V2. Its recommended for you to use PC_EFI v9 with a patched boot file.
Kernel Panic (generic CPU error) - It occurs if you have an Atom processor or some of the very old boards. The only way to fix it by using PC_EFI v9. Its kind of simple to do , all you have to do is download this installer and boot file for Snow Leopard. Its bit old school. To do this firstly , you’ll have to download PC_EFI v9 installer and this boot file from it. Install this boot loader to your USB Drive (be sure to change its destination) and replace the boot file with this patched file. Be sure to follow rest of the guide such as generating extensions.mkext and so on and so forth. Its just that instead of Chameleon , you’ll have to use PC_EFI v9.

Another thing which I’ve noticed that it occurs when you do a -f. I think its related to permissions of the kext. Do refer to the guide up on how to generate extensions.mkext for both /Extra and /System/Library/Extensions and how to fix permissions

Reboot loop – It clearly means your processor is not supported for instance if you’re like me , still on a Pentium D. For this you’ll have to grab a patched mach_kernel.

CMOS Bug – If you get an error on BIOS after you’ve installed Snow Leopard (this includes BIOS settings have changed or other strange BIOS errors) This is a known issue and it requires your DSDT to be patched. Again you can check out the guide below which I’ve included on how to fix it

Fix Permission Error in Disk Utility. This is caused when Snow Leopard is installed from Leopard.

Disk Utility Permission fix error – If you get this error in Disk Utility , “ No Installer packages can be found for this disk” whenever you want to verify permission and fix permission. This is caused when you run Snow Leopard installer within Leopard itself. Its a simple fix. You’ll have to re-run BSD.pkg , it could be found in /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages or /Volumes/OSX86/System/Installation/Packages . Just run it and voila it should be fixed ! Now you can use Disk Utility to repair permissions !

UPDATE 2. More Troubleshooting Tips

1. If you are stuck on Waiting for DSMOS then simply delete the DSMOS kext in Snow/Extra/Extensions but make sure you must have FakeSMC kext.
2. If you are stuck on RTL8169E error: Disable Hardware LAN in your BIOS and boot again. I’m making a list of it, so stick with us.
3. If you have an IDE drive or your laptop contains IDE drive then Install AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext by Netkas to make your ATA/IDE work in Snow Leopard. This kext is useful for ICH6/7/8/9/10 with ahci disabled and for lappies too. This kext also helps IOATAFamily related error causing Kernel Panic.

UPDATE 3: Replacing MACH_KERNEL (for Pentium D, Celeron, P4)

Version History:

1. Added Step 9, Basic Troubleshooting

2. Added Support for Flash Drives.

3. More Troubleshooting Tips

4. Replacing MACH_KERNEL

5. AMD Install Support

[via]

• Resolves issues browsing the iTunes Store.
• Addresses a performance issue where iTunes may become unresponsive.
• Fixes a problem where iTunes may unexpectedly quit.
• Fixes a problem syncing Podcasts in playlists to iPod or iPhone.
• Fixes a problem sorting albums with multiple discs.
• Addresses an issue with the Zoom button not switching to Mini Player.
• Improves application syncing for iPod touch and iPhone.
• Genius is now automatically updated to show Genius Mixes.

So iTunes users should definitely grab it when you get a chance. [iTunes]

VLC Media Player for MAC

VLC is a cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, player and server. VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. See the full features list. It can also be used as a media converter or a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on networks.

VLC Media Player

Windows Media Player for Mac

Download Windows Media Player for Mac. Choose from ‘Windows Media Components for QuickTime’, ‘Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X’ or ‘Windows Media Player 7.1 for Mac’.

Windows Media Player for Mac (home)
Windows Media Player for Mac (cNet)

RealPlayer for Mac

Tune in to 90+ ad-free digital music stations. Tune in to 3,200+ broadcast stations all over the world. Download your favorite videos from thousands of websites quickly and easily. Optimize your sound exactly the way you like it. Watch the crisp, clean video quality of RealVideo 10 with any Internet connection. RealPlayer’s new design behaves just like your other Mac applications.

RealPlayer for Mac

FlipforMAC – WMV Player

Play Windows Media files on your Mac using QuickTime Player or Safari Web Browser. With Windows Media Components for QuickTime, by Flip4Mac, you can play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) directly in QuickTime Player and view Windows Media content on the Internet using a Web browser. Windows Media Components for QuickTime has been highly optimized for Power Mac G4 and G5 and Intel computers and supports playback of high-definition Windows Media video files.

Download WMV Player
[ Flip4Mac WMV home ]

DivX Player for MAC

Watch High-Quality Video on Your Mac. DivX for Mac is a free download that provides everything you need to enjoy high-quality digital videos on your computer, including high definition H.264 (.mkv) videos with AAC audio and videos created using all previous versions of DivX technology. You can also play your DivX files (.divx, .avi) on millions of DivX Certified devices today. Look for DivX Plus HD Certified devices soon that will support playback of all DivX and DivX Plus HD files, as well as .mkv (H.264/AAC) videos from the Internet. DivX Player for Mac now plays DivX Plus HD (.mkv) videos and H.264/AAC/MKV videos from the Internet. DivX Player for Mac sports a brand new design with translucent windows, cleaner play controls and more. DivX for Mac is optimized for Intel Macs, OS X 10.4 and above.

Download DivX Player for MAC

QuickTime

Advanced video with pristine quality, Amazingly responsive live player resize, Up to 24 channels of surround sound, All new playback controls and more. The QuickTime family of digital media creation, delivery and playback software lets you deliver live or pre-recorded video and audio to an audience of any size. When combined with QuickTime Player and QuickTime Pro, these applications work together to provide the industry’s first end-to-end, cross-platform, standards-based digital media delivery system.

Download QuickTime

Perian – QuickTime Component

Perian is a free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats. Perian enables QuickTime application support for additional media:

• File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW
• Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2, DivX, 3ivx, H.264, Sorenson H.263, FLV/Sorenson Spark, FSV1, VP6, H263i, VP3, HuffYUV, FFVHuff, MPEG1 & MPEG2
• Video, Fraps, Snow, NuppelVideo, Techsmith Screen Capture, DosBox Capture
• Audio types: Windows Media Audio v1 & v2, Flash ADPCM, Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska), and MPEG Layer I & II Audio, True Audio, DTS Coherent Acoustics, Nellymoser ASAO
• AVI support for: AAC, AC3 Audio, H.264, MPEG4, and VBR MP3
• Subtitle support for SSA/ASS and SRT

Download Perian

XBMC Media Center

XBMC is Complete media center solution for Windows, OSX, Linux, and XBOX. XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, Windows, and the original Xbox. XBMC is a non-profit project run and developed by volunteers located around the world. More than 50 software developers have contributed to XBMC, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 30 languages.

XBMC Media Center

Miro Video Player

Miro is a free HD video player. It can play almost any video file and offers over 6,000 free internet TV shows and video podcasts. Miro has a simple, gorgeous interface designed for fullscreen HD video. Since Miro downloads most videos, you can take your shows with you, even on an airplane. Quite simply, Miro is a better way to watch all the video you care about.

Miro is cross-platform and 100% free and open-source. Built by a non-profit company and volunteers around the world. Watch Full Screen HD Video, Download Torrent Feeds, Download You Tube Videos, Organize your video collection, Resume from Where You Stopped, Play Almost Anything. Forget about the format wars. Miro can play MPEG, Quicktime, AVI, H.\264, Divx, Windows Media, Flash Video, and almost every other major video format. After you watch a video on a channel, it will stick around for a few days and then delete itself. You can choose to keep it permanently if you like and you can set the channel to save every video permanently. Set any channel to download new videos as soon as they are published.

Download Miro Player

Basically, there are a bunch of iPhone keypad codes that you can type in and get back certain information about the your mobile carrier, phone and billing details.

To use any one of these codes, open your iPhone’s “phone app” and make sure that the keypad button is selected in the bottom menu. Then, type in the code from the list below and press call.

iPhone Codes: Network & Phone Information

*3001#12345#*- Opens up the “Field Test” settings on your iPhone, which allows you to see many, many advanced network settings on your phone including cell site information and more.

*#06# – Displays your iPhone’s International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number (this code also works on many other phones).

*#21# – Displays any call forwarding settings enabled on your iPhone.

*#43# – Shows you if call waiting for various parts of your phone are either enabled or disabled.

*#30# – Shows you if you have the call presentation (to see who is calling you) setting enabled or disabled.

*#33# – Displays call barring settings for your iPhone, and weather they are enabled or disabled.

iPhone Codes: Carrier & Billing Information

*646# -View available minutes on your AT&T plan (*min#).

*777#- View available minutes on your AT&T pre-paid plan (if you get the “Account Not Found” error, you do not have a pre-paid account and you should try the code just above this one for postpaid accounts).

*3282# - View wireless data usage statistics (also *data#).

*225# – Check the bill balance on your AT&T account (also *bll#).

*729 – Makes a call to AT&T to pay your wireless bill.

Do you have any other iPhone keypad codes / shortcuts to share? Let us know in the comments and also be sure to check out other MakeUseOf iPhone articles here.

The Mac-Twitter Workflow

It works like this. You install the app on your Mac and associate it with your Twitter account*. Now you can send a regular tweet with the command wrapped in (for example, shutdown or sleep). The utility running on the Mac will check for your tweets at frequent intervals and will perform the required action on the remote Mac computer as soon as it finds some command in the twitter stream.

*It is recommended that you create a separate Twitter id (with “protected” updates) for sending remote commands to your Mac.

Send Remote Commands to your Mac

Here are some useful commands that you may send to your Mac via TweetMyMac:

1. Shutdown (to shutdown your Mac immediately without saving any files) or Sleep (for putting your Mac in sleep mode).

2. iSight – This is great if you want to know what’s happening in the surroundings. Send the iSight command and the app will take a picture with the built-in iSight web camera and will upload it to Twitpic.

3. Screenshot – If you want to know what applications are open on your Mac desktop, send the “screenshot” command – the picture of your desktop will again be uploaded to twitpic.

The app is in beta (so expect some bugs) and obviously it should always be running on your Mac computer for receiving commands.

iTunes 9 comes with a newly designed iTunes Store which is not only appealing, but also much organized.

Some of the other features in this new version are improved syncing, home sharing of media up to 5 computers, iTunes link sharing to Facebook and Twitter, Ringtones purchases and iTunes LP.

To download iTunes 9 for Windows, head on to the Apple website. A Mac version for Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard is available too.

Download iTunes 9 For Windows & Mac Here

So What are you waitng Upgrade your device to OS 3.1 from iTunes 9. or Download from these Link:-

• iPhone 3.1 download (iPhone1,1_3.1_7C144_Restore.ipsw, 241 MB)
• iPhone 3G 3.1 download (iPhone1,2_3.1_7C144_Restore.ipsw, 242 MB)
• iPhone 3GS 3.1 download (iPhone2,1_3.1_7C144_Restore.ipsw, 306 MB)

Geohot and iPhone Dev Team are best at their work. Each one of them trying to come up with better way to unlock iPhone 3G 3.0 & 3GS 3.0. Few days back Geohot had released Purplesn0w which was claimed to be less memory consuming then Ultrasn0wunlock tool from iPhone Dev team.

Now iPhone Dev team is here with new version of Ultrasnow,Ultrasn0w 0.9. This time they have learned several new things from the source code purplesn0w developed by Kid hacker Geohot. iPhone Dev team has raised some concerns over Geohot’s method of unlocking via patching of actual baseband code but they have also found patching of CommCenter in Purplesn0w is more effective then running a demon.

iPhone Dev Team has reworked on ultrasn0w to come up with Ultrasn0w 0.9 based on Geohot’s Purplesn0w and have also thanked to Geohot for helping in improving Ultreasn0w. Ultrasn0w 0.9 will work on both iPhone 3G as well as 3GS 3.0 and has fixes for almost all random issues faced by users.

Features of Ultrasn0w 0.9

1. Works on both 3G and 3GS

2. Works on hacktivated devices

3. Works regardless of how you jailbroke your device

4. Doesn’t patch any mach-o binary whatsoever. (Doesn’t require a separate patch as each new firmware comes out).

5. Doesn’t install any additional daemon

6. Has no race conditions, no popups about “Missing SIM”, no network issues

7. Is almost 7000 times smaller than its nearest competition

8. Is available now via Cydia. Source repo is http://repo666.ultrasn0w.com (that last “0″ in ultrasn0w is a zero!)

The procedure to download ultrasn0w is same, You need to add http://repo666.ultrasn0w.comto cydia and then install/upgrade Ultrasn0w 0.9.