Best Buy listing suggests five new Macbooks incoming

AppleInsider reports that Apple partner Best Buy, one of the biggest resellers of Apple’s products, has begun listing five SKU’s for new Macbook notebooks, starting at $1,199 and ranging up to $2,499.The SKU’s were spotted by Engadget, listed within Best Buy’s online Laptop Configuration tool, each one labelled with a… Read more at Best Buy […]

New Apple Laptop SKU’s Spotted on Best Buy’s System

Apple reseller and partner, Best Buy is listing new SKU’s from Apple that haven’t been announced yet. Best Buy’s laptop discovery tool points out new models from Apple including one identified only as “New SKU I,”, which should be the likely 17 inch MacBook Pro model that Apple plans to… via New Apple Laptop SKU’s […]

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 […]

Is an UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) necessary?

First, I tend to view UPS like anti-virus, they are “best practices” or simply good computer hygiene, that help to prevent costly failures. Second, It depends on your situation. There are those who will disagree, but I believe that in most of what we call the “first world”, the power grid is reliable enough that […]