Even weeks devoid of major announcements and release from Cupertino can offer exciting ( and even stunning ) newspaper headline . Couple those with the reviews , hints , and tutorials you ’ve follow to expect fromMacworld , and the past week of chronicle was not one to be missed . But just in suit youdidmiss something , here ’s a roundup of our beneficial history from the workweek go by .
In Lion’s den
If Safari 5.1 in Lion ( or Snow Leopard ) seems to be misbehave when you search , check out this hint . If , rather than battling Safari , you ’re still carry on with some Wi - Fi exit or other small Lion glitch , it ’s high time you install the10.7.1 update that Apple released this week . If alternatively of bug you ’re encounter day-after-day smash , it might be prudent to read Ted Landau ’s piece onhow best to restore Lion . And if you have n’t installed Lion at all just yet and your net is dim than [ insert the political fig you most like to discover as dim - witted here ] , consider seize the new$69 Lion USB installer . If you do n’t have any idea what Lion is or what I ’m talking about , you are either on the faulty website or having a stroke .
iPhone, therefore iPad
We ’re addicted to write about iOS accessories , but you ’re addicted to read about them , so together we ’ll be okay . Lab Director James Galbraith wrote up a nice piece aboutusing your euphony - refer computer hardware with GarageBand on the iPad , and swear me when I say that his piece rock’n’roll .
Google ’s Photovine app strike the App Store , in lawsuit your iPhone did n’t offer enough style to share your photos , andSkype Wi - Fimight assistance you get online for loud when you realize that no , that“Free Public WiFi ” hotspot still is n’t going to work .
Oh , and as always , we carefully reviewed a slew of iOS apps , and even more cautiously determined the telephone number of mice to award each . ( Try not to think too hard about the strange dichotomy inherent to awarding computer mouse to iOS apps . ) Among the apps we reviewed :
• Calorific Lite — which is good for you but a bit bland , • TellMe Later — which I ’ll write a epigram for some other time if you remind me , • sway - a - idiom — a shoehorn that juggle Mad Libs - style phrases that your well - develop babe SEAL might delight , • Memonic — an app whose unambiguously - spelled name I need a trick to remember , and • Tracks — an app that help you keep photographic grounds of everywhere you go … Just like the government ! ( Haha , just kidding , governance ! )
Oh , and yours truly opined thatwhen Apple describes devices like the iPad as “ magical,”it actually does itself a ill service .
Software oh where can you be
Drama hit the Mac package scene whenKagi begin selling an update to VisualHubwithout the original developer ’s permit . But now it seemsboth side have come to an agreement , which is good , because I hate dispute .
In a floor with fewer weakened feelings , Evernote learn screenshot shaft Skitch , and perish and made the app loose on the Mac App Store , too . Because I ’m a blackguard , I ca n’t intend of any joke but the obvious one in describing thetrio of CAD appsthat Autodesk released this retiring week . Grand Theft Auto hijacked the Mac App Store , too .
Hardware the wild things are
Logitech announced a slick newsolar - power wireless keyboard ; it charges via ambient light , so you need n’t leave your Mac behind to seat in — of all places — the sun . Kanex offer a raw adapter toconnect previous Macs to Apple ’s 27 - in Cinema Display . And we awarded the coveted and seldom seen five full mice toa messenger bag .
Et cetera
And then there are a few other interesting story that do n’t quite set anywhere else . Google bought Motorola Mobility for $ 12.5 billion dollars — that ’s around one clam for every guy video on YouTube . Meanwhile , HP throw in the towel on the TouchPad and other webOS - related hardware . As far as Apple ’s other competitors , you could understand about several of them in the latest variant ofUnder the Gavel .
Apple ’s iAd frailty chairman is leaving the company , hopefully not for a job at HP . Amazingly , Macworlddidn’t fall behind any employees even after the uproarious ( and at - sentence scatological)Mac Pundit Showdown .
With luck , we did n’t lose any of you on our elbow room to the conclusion of another Weekly Wrap . We ’ll see you here next week with a roundup of the bestMacworldstories that , as of this moment , we ’ve yet to write .
