We get it : You ’re officious . Much as you would love to study every tarradiddle we publish here on Macworld.com , it ’s inevitable that you miss the occasional opus . But we do it you , and we want to help . So here are some highlight from the past week .
A new take on an old store
The ever - reliable net hearsay mill was rife with excitement : What exciting newness would Apple unveil to commemoratethe tenth anniversaryof its retail stores ? As it turns out , the answer was : iPads . Not a new role model of iPad for you to take home and caress , but rather a slew of iPads that supersede in - store signage . The iPads extend ware information , pricing , and other such details , and even let you page an Apple Store rep to come help you . unhappily , their dwelling house button are obstruct , so you ca n’t apply them to wreak Super Stickman Golf . The Apple Store now offers personal frame-up forallmajor Apple hardware leverage , too . And lest the iPhone Apple Store app get overjealous , it also take in an update . Frankly , though , I ’m not interested until it gets multiplayer .
Other news
If you missed our story on Apple ’s response to Lodsys regarding threatening sound letter the latter company had send off to iOS developer , then you should probably check our home page more often . We also publish the full schoolbook of the alphabetic character from Apple Legal .
Amazon launched an unexpected Mac Downloads Store , but it’sreallyhard to pasture it from a Kindle . Our own Dan Frakeswrote an in - depth helping hand - on articleabout the store experience .
For our next item I bend now to my rime dictionary , with sincerest apologies to Dr. Seuss ( who deserves better ):
Another big level we plow this weekRelates to the Mac ’s tarnished safety mystique . Will cruelMacDefenderbe OS X ’s ender?Should all of us move around off our Macs and surrender?No ! Since Apple has publishedremoval instructions , And we sharedRich Mogull ’s quite limpid deductions;He says not to panic and ditch all our Macs;It ’s our brain — not our byte — that most malware attacks .
Hints and how-to’s
First , let ’s take a moment and appreciate that I right pluralise “ how - to ’s ” perMacworld ’s style guide on my first try . Then , let ’s move on ; we release some great tutorials over the past week .
If you ’re frequently mocked for mis - singing lyrics like“There ’s nothing that a hundred men on Mars could ever do,”don’t miss Kirk McElhearn ’s templet to adding lyrics to your music in iTunes . patronage folk who need to bear witness they use their iPads for work to justify expensing them will exult upon reading our guide to editing spreadsheet on the iPad . And if you ’re design a summer holiday , do n’t overlook our travel tips for Apple ironware enthusiasts . ( Bonus steer : Do n’t play Flight Control on the plane . It makes hoi polloi nervous . )
We also shared hints on opening multiple copies of a PDF in Preview , transferring iPhoto exposure between networked Macs , andskinning Twitterrific , which is less painful than it sounds — especially for Twitterrific . And we partake advice oncreating an OS ecstasy flash drive installer , and yes , this have-to doe with to the kind of flashbulb Mac users should cover ( not the crashtastic retentivity pig ) .
Reviews and previews
As ever , we offered a raft of reviews . MetalStorm offers great multiplayer — arrant with in - game trash - talk ; Notificant reminds you about your tasks and [ notice TO SELF : Finish Notificant ’s description later ] ; Fantastical lives up to its name , and ScreenFloat floats our gravy boat . Risk , unfortunately , was a bit of a disappointment .
On the hardware side , we really liked the Future Sonics Atrio m5 Professional Earphones , although their name is surely an earful . We also covereda new digital tv camera that will only set you back $ 45,000—”And to think , ” some Windows fan somewhere must have chortled , “ it ’s not even made by Apple ! ” Chris Breen could n’t deny that the Peel Universal Remote has ( forgive me ) appeal . We also wrote upiPad accessary just for your lap , which we managed to do with a straight face .
We’re done here
With that , you should be mostly get up on Macworld ’s coverage from the hebdomad decease by . melody in again next weekend to study about all the stuff you ’ll miss between now and then .
[ Macworld Staff Writer Lex Friedman ’s work for the weekend . ]
