Month: February 2011

Analysis: How Apple\’s new subscriptions stack up to the competition

MacWorld has an interesting analysis about the new subscription pricing for iTunes.  Overall, in a nutshell, most competitors are charging between 40-60% plus data transfer charges for their subscription plans… Here take a look.  Analysis: How Apple\’s new subscriptions stack up to the competition But, I was very disappointed about one of the comments to […]

Random freezing from Snow Leopard? Insert-Hang-Detected?

Is your Macintosh hanging up ocassionally with the Beach Ball of Doom?  Check your console.log….  And see if you see this: Sep 11 18:03:00 Perseus kernel[0]: Sep 11 18:03:01: — last message repeated 1 time — Sep 11 18:03:01 Perseus Safari254: INSERT-HANG-DETECTED: Tx time:21.280277, # of Inserts: 1, # of bytes written: 157639, Did shrink: […]

What is \”awacsd\”? And why do I need to have it running?

Did you just recently upgrade to Mac OS 10.6.5 or 10.6.6+ and have your firewall report that \”awacsd\” is accepting inbound connections? Apple has added a new component into Mac OS X, called awacsd. This component is called \”Apple Wide Area Connectivity Service daemon\”, or awacsd… This daemon is used to assist in making connections […]

Smaller iPhones?

Well, I have been quite silent about some of the iPhone chatter going around… But I have decided to throw in my 5 cents… Will there be a smaller form factor?  I seriously doubt it.  If the iPhone is made any smaller, then I believe it will be at least the size of the current […]

Analysis: World of Goo’s iPad Launch

Here\’s a behind the scenes Analysis of the \”World of Goo\”\’s iPad launch… for the creators of \”World of Goo\”. By the way, it\’s a tough game, but a good game, never the less… It\’s challenging, inventive, and cross platform! Remember, support the cross platform developers… Learn from the escapee of OS/2, and Desqview. We […]

Aycelcus cosplaying Agatha Heterodyne (Girl Genius)

Have you seen / read Girl Genius by Phil Foglio? The setting: In a time when the Industrial Revolution escalated into a full-on war, rival mad scientists, (“Sparks” to be polite), are the ruling powers in most of Europe. Keeping them all in line is Baron Wulfenbach, a particularly powerful and cranky Spark who, when […]