Weekly Wrap: New Macs, delightful apps, and lots of other exciting haps

We took a hebdomad off from the Weekly Wrap , because your devoted wrapper was stuck at panel tariff . But now we ’re back and ready to summarise theMacworldweek that was , highlighting our biggest and honorable story in case you missed them . Just do n’t let it pass off again . New Macs Dan Frakes say thatthe unexampled Mac miniskirt are profligate , crummy , and more expandable than ever , but he pretermit the machine ’s optical drive ....

August 6, 2011 · 6 min · 1070 words · Jean Cross

Instagram hits the 150 million photos mark

The Instagram stats are undoubtedly telling : 10 month in the iOS App Store , seven million users , 15 exposure shared every 2d , and 1.29 million photos shared a Clarence Day . The developer behind the liberal photo - sharing appannouncedanother striking statistic on Wednesday — its 150 millionth uploaded photo . Instagram , for the uninitiated , is a typical pic filter app à la Hipstamatic or Camera Bag ....

August 4, 2011 · 2 min · 351 words · Barbara Tucker

Lawmaker touts AT&T deal with T-Mobile

A nominate learning of T - Mobile USA by AT&T could render significant benefits to U.S. consumer , according to a senior Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives . Representative Lamar Smith , a Texas Republican , has encouraged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice to “ carefully weigh all the evidence , ” including the welfare of the proposed $ 39 billion deal , before deciding on whether to approve it ....

August 2, 2011 · 2 min · 323 words · Troy Fox

Under the Gavel: Insomniac justice

Justice may be unreasoning , but to compensate , she never sleeps . And so while it may seem as though it were just the other day that we were put together the latest news in the realm of law , it was in factfivedays ago . Still , a lot ’s happened in the intervening sentence — enough to guarantee ( get it ? ) the late version of our atypical legal feature , Under the Gavel ....

August 2, 2011 · 5 min · 1044 words · Vincent Gardner

Apple TV now streams purchased TV shows, Vimeo videos

Owners of the second - multiplication Apple TV can now pelt previously purchased TV shows directly from the iTunes Store , as well as watch video from the democratic video - hosting siteVimeo , thanks to a software update released on Monday . Up until now , you could stream any TV shows purchase from the iTunes Store put up on a computer using Apple ’s abode Sharing feature or via AirPlay ....

August 1, 2011 · 3 min · 432 words · Sharon Wood

Remains of the Day: Mr. October

The next iPhone still has n’t officially come up , but the latest rumour suggest you ’d better get your costumes quick . Elsewhere , the yield of the Apple HDTV rumor that will not die , and external iTunes users get a small but welcome improvement . The remainders for Monday , August 1 , 2011 are on a scroll . Apple Launching New iPhone in October , Not September(All thing D )...

August 1, 2011 · 3 min · 442 words · David Pratt

iPad still top tablet in China despite rivals

Apple ’s iPad continues to reign as the top - sell lozenge in China while rival Android devices from Motorola , Lenovo , and Asus struggle to gain a sizeable presence in the rural area ’s mart , harmonize to a Beijing - ground research house . A total of 1.4 million pill were sold in China during the 2d quarter , with 74 percent of those sales for Apple ’s iPad devices , according toAnalysys International ....

July 27, 2011 · 3 min · 503 words · Mary Miller

Remains of the Day: iPhone 5:3

And lo , there shall come a day when all will gaze upon the power and the resplendence of a new iPhone ! shortly . Really . Anyyyyyy minute now . Just be patient . It ’s coming . belike . While you ’re waiting for that , you might want to take about Apple ’s newfangled huge retail entrepot , Facebook ’s hush-hush iPad app , and how Steve Jobs controls the world ’s provision of traditional pleasant-tasting American fare ....

July 25, 2011 · 3 min · 532 words · Adam Henderson

Weekly Wrap: Lion, Lion, some other stuff, and Lion

There ’s never a good time to take a break from reading Macworld.com for a week , of course . But this retiring week was perhaps the unsound workweek to keep off the web site in recent memory , as Apple let a rather enormous kat out of the bag . Join us as we run down the biggest story from the week go by . The Mane Event Apple released Lion ....

July 23, 2011 · 5 min · 937 words · Linda Murphy

First Look: Safari 5.1

Thanks to its new Reading List feature , Safari has stupefy a lot of tending in Apple ’s PR push button forMac OS X Lion . But the build - in Web web internet browser for OS X , Safari 5.1 , let many other Lion - focused change and improvements that are deserving your attention . Note that you could also download Safari 5.1 for Snow Leopard and Windows ....

July 21, 2011 · 14 min · 2899 words · Melanie Nelson

Remains of the Day: Patent-troll hunter

I do n’t eff if letters patent - round hunting is a job , but if it is , well , let ’s just say I may consider a change in life history . Emboldened by a previous victory , one of these annoying house is suing Apple a second sentence ; elsewhere , the new MacBook Air falls to pieces , Apple go down its sights on box obliteration , and Samsung backtracks on a poor decision ....

July 21, 2011 · 4 min · 722 words · Paul Williams

Senator opposes AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile

A senior U.S. senator has urged two Union agencies to reject AT&T ’s advise $ 39 billion acquisition of T - Mobile USA . Senator Herb Kohl , a Wisconsin Democrat and president of the Senate Judiciary Committee ’s antitrust subcommittee , on Wednesday called on the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to reject the deal between the country ’s secondly - largest and fourth - largest roving immune carrier ....

July 20, 2011 · 3 min · 585 words · Mr. Kelly Miller

Apple discontinues the $999 MacBook

On Wednesday Apple set the death of the MacBook . No , not its entire line of laptops , which made up 70 percentage of the Macs sold in the company ’s just - finish third quarter . get the chopper is the $ 999 clean plastic MacBook , which has held down the low - cost ending of Apple ’s laptop line for year . If you ’re searching for a cause for the MacBook ’s demise , depend no further than the product line Applealso update on Wednesday : the MacBook Air ....

July 19, 2011 · 3 min · 439 words · Jeffrey Bradley