This workweek , in some fashion , felt a mo like the calm before the storm . Apple announced a special case fare next week , we share the write up of various unusual Macs , and of track we declare oneself our usual great deal of reviews , how - tos , and news program .
Apple’s big little event
We scored invitations to Apple’s“A little more to show you”event . The “ little ” in the invitation ’s text had us all thinking “ iPad miniskirt , ” but the colourful background had us all retrieve “ Apple invented an iRainbow . ” We ’ll find out definitively betimes next week , and of courseMacworldwill provide live coverage from California .
you’re able to listen in on our ruminations on the forthcoming event in this week ’s editionof the Macworld podcast .
How to do stuff
Your MacBook Air miss a CD / DVD drive , and your disc just wo n’t fit in the USB port no matter how firmly you push . fortuitously , we can conduct you on how to utilize such platter with your Air .
Perhaps in the yesteryear , you ’ve struggled with connecting to a host . Next fourth dimension , introduce yourself before you order your meal . And if you ’re actually having difficulties connecting to a server of the digital kind , then perhaps this chronicle oneight slipway to unite to a outside servercan help .
It ’s too former to say whether Apple ’s caught lightning in a bottle with the new petite port on iOS equipment and iPods , but we do fuck everything there is to hump about the fellowship ’s twoLightning to 30 - pin adapters . If you ’ve been waiting on ( 30 ) pin and needle for a hand - on with those adapters , you ’re in chance . And you may need a hobby .
Mac beginners will prize this flat coat onwindows — and yes , we intend the kind on your Mac ’s background , not that operating system people who execrate happiness rely on . modern user might delight our usher onplaying iPhone media through iTunes — yep , it really can be done .
Travelling this vacation season ? We ca n’t help you with the TSA , but we can offer up some baksheesh onessential accessories and change of location bag basics .
We can do this the easy way or the hardware
We liked two of Apple ’s new iPods . Read our thoroughgoing review of the7th - generation iPod nanoand the fifth - generation iPod touch . Remember , though , that ineverygeneration , there is a slayer .
If you ’re more interested in Macs , well , we do n’t have any novel ones to review — yet . Ask again after next hebdomad ’s Apple case . In the meantime , though , we ’ve assembledthe five weirdest Macs ever , and a disjoined lean of thesix rarest Macs of all clip . Is there any convergence ? You ’ll have to read the article to retrieve out !
We also put together a roundup of27 - column inch displays . The tv set in my family room growing up was modest than that .
Software the softwild things are
We reviewedBad Piggies for iPhone ; it ’s the thrilling sequel to Angry Birds . I ’ll never forgive them for not naming it Angry Birds 2 : The Angrenning .
We also reviewed apps with fewer unhappy avians and swine , like Mountain Lion’sMail 6 . There was n’t much to check off down Markdown iOS editorWriteUpfor ; read the critical review to see why it earned four blue mice .
We found the fiction writer ’s toolPersonanon grata . For conduct with real - world humans , though , we really likedTweetbot for Mac .
As we so often do , we spent some fourth dimension this week with our head in the clouds . Specifically , for this summing up ofhow iCloud gets share wrong .
At leastMacworldappreciates the fact that sharing is caring . We ’ll be back here next week to divvy up another roundup of our biggest stories from the week gone by .
