iPod Touch 3.1.3 firmware now free

Pocket Gamer reports that Apple’s 3.1.3 firmware for the iPod Touch is now free. Apple has eliminated the price for upgrading your iPod touch to the latest firmware, making version 3.1.3 free for everyone. That’s a significant shift by Apple, which had recently lowered the price of the firmware upgrade in hopes of coaxing iPod […]

Dragon Age: Awakening: Meet Velanna and her army of Ents

With an anticipated release date of March 16, Dragon Age: Origins — Awakening is ramping up the hype quite nicely. Today, we get a short introduction to Velanna, who joins Anders in the ‘Guild of Mages Who Totally Have Some Beef With Everybody. I’m glad to have more mages available to me in Awakening — […]

Be there in a jiffy

I never knew this, but “Jiffy” is not just slang… Jiffy is used in different applications for various short, very short, or extremely short periods of time. In informal speech a “jiffy” means any unspecified short period of time, as in “I’ll be back in a jiffy”, but in other contexts it has more precise […]

Macintosh Dashboard may bring the first real OS X Virus…

First, Breathe…  Yes, take a few deep breathes…. You see, we’re all doomed…  Yes, indeedy, doomed I say.  After all, the Macintosh Dashboard is the vector which all viruses will be created with in mind…  And Windows viruses will disappear due to the popularity of the Dashboard vector….  (SLAP)…  Sorry, I needed that, I was […]

What’s the difference between Track-At-Once & Disc-At-Once?

Track-At-Once This is the first option that was introduced when CD duplication software was first created. With this mode, each time a track is finished burning, the laser recording the information stops. When it stops, two run-out blocks of data are written. After that, one link block and four run-in blocks are written when the […]