What ’s new this calendar week ? Why , product announcements exciting and strange from the International Consumer Electronics Show , a slew of iOS and Mac reportage , speculations about next week ’s education - themed Apple event , and more of the how - to content you love to read and we make love to share . The Weekly Wrap is where we seek to find the very best account from the hebdomad gone by and assemble them all in one piazza for your weekend reading pleasure — so permit ’s get to it .
CES excess
In January , play in Las Vegas goes beyond the casinos : Oodles of vender reckon that their products will be interesting enough to both draw press reporting and consumer disbursal . We find a few highlights worth our attention — and yours : There werespeaker systems for the showerand descale for your baby , portable radiation sensor ( if you ’re worried that your backyard is particularly radioactive ) andcreepy pseudo - sentient iOS golem , iPad mike and robotic Bluetooth bunny , and even a remote - controlledflying pilotless aircraft or two .
Oh , and just for good measure , a air pressure - sensitive Io stylus from Adonit . We also report on a slew of Thunderbolt accessories ( in the end ! ) , an AirPlay amp from Griffin , and a trio of keyboards from Matias that can control either your Mac or your iPhone with the flick of a switch . But the 900 pound gorilla in the CES showroom was literally a900 hammering iPod dock .
In fact , there were so many things to see and write about , we eventually take a quick suspension andpodcasted about CES instead .
Apple events new and old
Apple announce that it will host an education - theme eventearly next week . So , in reception , we made someeducatedguessesabout just what Apple might foretell .
We also take time to hark back another Apple event — one from five years ago , wherein Steve Jobs tell apart us that Apple would announce a cell phone , a touch - screen iPod , and an cyberspace communications twist . ( Spoiler alert for those fresh out of comas and starting to sum up life by reading this Wrap : It was n’t three separate devices . ) Jason Snell was there , and he was one of the first folks outside of Apple to touch on the iPhone . He remember it lovingly .
Mac tips and tricks
Are you a Mac power substance abuser , or draw a bead on to be one ? Do n’t miss our tips onusing Disk Utility for leisurely encryptionor enabling the ability tocopy text from QuickLook preview . We also put together a electrifying two - part serial publication on how to use OS X ’s services , and four great such services that you credibly did n’t know about . Of course , if you already read that article , now youdoknow about them . But that ’s beside the point .
This week’sMacworldvideo lead explainedhow to use Fluid to create a Gmail app on your Mac .
And if you ’re front for other interesting software for your Mac , note that there ’s a Modern Lightroom beta from Adobe . And if a Lightroom - edit depiction is worth 1000 words , you’re able to compose and preview those words inMarked , one of our latest Mac Gems .
iOS, oh yes
No Weekly Wrap would be complete without include highlights from our coverage of all thing iPhone and iPad . Amazon reveal an iPad - optimized Kindle Store . Hipmunk updated its trajectory hunt app to include hotel as well .
Macworldeditor Philip Michaels write up enthralling technology that allows Stanford mutant fans to watch instantaneous instant replay on their fluid machine , from the stands .
And , as always , we wrote up a variety of other apps :
But until Summly take over Weekly Wrap duties , it ’s still my beat . We ’ll be back again next Saturday , unless our robot overlords decide otherwise .
