see that sound ? That ’s the sound of fall ’s unceasing approach . If you spent much of the past week enjoying summery atmospheric condition before fall ’s inevitable arriver , we ca n’t say we blame you . And we wo n’t hold a score if you escape a slew of authoritative and excitingMacworldstories because of it . alternatively , we ’ll fill you in on all the skilful article that you omit .
The Lion Thing
Although we ’ve very nearly exhausted our supply of newspaper headline - suitable Lion punning , that has n’t stopped us from hatch Mac OS X 10.7 in great contingent . If you ’d wish to show Lion who ’s king of your Mac hobo camp , we can help youtame Lion ’s Mailand take control of Mission Control . If , on the other hand , you ’re still bet to migrate some file cabinet from an honest-to-god Leopard Mac , you do n’t inevitably need a CAT-5 cable , but you ’ll by all odds want to check out Apple ’s Migration Assistant update for Leopard user .
If you ’re worried about a likely clang the next time your Lion instalment roars to a halt , you ’ll need to turn back out Apple ’s freshly - released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant . Dan Frakes , who ’s installed Lion at least as many asSteve Jobs has utter the word “ boom,”wenthands - on with the raw assistant , which lets you sprain a USB control stick into a Lion boot disk .
While our love for Lion knows few bounds , we stil come up with a few improvement we ’d care to see . Steve , experience free to call us if you need further elaboration on those issues . Meanwhile , Ted Landau found a few more Lion compatibility issue .
We owe you iOS
We reviewed a spate of iOS apps :
• Photogram , which makes exposure postcards , scored our stamp of approval , • Smail Stencil , for saving frequently sent content , lacks much SMS diplomacy , • Zombie Gunship , a game focused on killing the undead , is to re - go for , • Ticket to Ride , an absorbing , train - focus board biz , is deserving choo - choo - choosing , and • Alarmed , a timer , reminder , and warning signal clock app , is pretty toot impressive .
Of naturally , now there ’s more to the Io ecosphere than true native apps . This past week , Vudu bring out a new iPad optimized Web app , and Amazon train the wraps off its new Kindle Cloud Reader . Jason Snell move helping hand - on with the Web - base Kindle app , and he like it , but he ’s not ready to check up with the native Kindle app just yet . Yours truly drop some time ( and a couple thousand words ) contemplate on just what this tiresome , stiff march of iOS - optimized vane apps really mean .
We also wrote up an iOS copy - and - spread tutorial for founding father , the newTweet Marker supporting in Twitterrific , Facebook ’s newMessenger app for iPhone , andBoxee ’s new iPad app . Elsewhere , contributor Joel Mathis report onthe iOS - integrate myTrek exercise monitor from Scosche , though in truth , he spend most of his sentence figuring out just how on the dot you spell “ Scosche . ”
houseman - turn - staff - editor Alexandra Chang review the Olloclip three - in - one television camera lens for iPhone , and also terminate my stripe as the sole member of the Macworld editorial team with an “ x”-bearing name .
You do n’t even need to call a Pearl Sydenstricker Buck foreBay ’s young desktop app ; it ’s available in the Mac App Store for spare . We reviewed the Io - inspired Sparrow email client , the HTML5 - origination shaft Hype , and task - direction softwareTodo .
Apple uncover a new , $ 999 educational activity - only iMac , but Chris Breen saysit ’s too much , too late . Chris also explain just what the heckan OS X stationery pad is , andhow to limit your kids ’ cyberspace access . Watch for Chris ’s series next week on “ How to get kids off your darn lawn . ”
Serenity Caldwell pours one out for the shortly - to - be - shuttered Walmart digital music streaming religious service . So if you ’re one of the seven people making the replacement from Walmart to iTunes — or one of the zillion of folk whoalreadyuse iTunes — here ’s Kirk McElhearn ’s composition on how to back up your iTunes media files . If you ’d rather make your own form of music , note thatApple released update for Logic and Logic Expressthis past week .
pic lover too may want to consider bosom iTunes , since DVD - pour serviceZediva has shut downafter some legal wrangling . talk of effectual wrangling , get Dan Moren take youUnder the Gavelfor another variant of our intermittent roundups of Apple - refer court matters .
And if you ’d rather write your own roundup of our stories , we suggest thatyou at least do so in apparent schoolbook , and if you want to print it out , consider one of thesenew Mac - friendly printers . Then mail it to me and grant me permission to pass it off as next calendar week ’s Weekly Wrap .
