summer is upon us ! As is a copious quantity of sunscreen ! With summer ’s arrival , you may be forgiven if you choose to pass a few hours out of doors over the past hebdomad , instead of fastidiously checkingMacworld’swebsite for novel stories every five minutes like I do . Here ’s what you may have missed .
Final Cut Pro X
net Cut Pro X ’s releasethis past week Was foregather with responses both gay and bleak It ’s new and improved and occupy a groovy recess , But it ’s also a lot more , well , iMovie - ish . Serenity Caldwell opines X is better , Though it turn out it ’s just a 3.5 mice getter . The Modern Final Cut ’s abitbuggy — and how ! But we haveworkaroundsthanks to Mr. Landau . If Final Cut X turns your angst to 11 Remember that you may keep on run 7 .
MobileMe and iCloud
As Michael Gartenberg indite last Sunday , Apple ’s make out the cord with iCloud , and we ’re presently pass to be unwaveringly ensconced in a post - PC Earth . Cord cut , as any new father can secern you , gets messy sometimes : Apple announced this weekthat MobileMe feature like iWeb and Gallery hosting and iDisk will all mix off this mortal coil by June 30 , 2012 . On the plus side , the fellowship confirmed that you ’ll have internet - based access to iCloud Mail , Contacts , Calendar , and Find My iPhone on icloud.com make out this fall . Of of course , Dropbox cue us why we should all be a little wary about cloud services when the service erroneouslyallowed users access to anyone else ’s Dropbox accountfor a few time of day . Try not to think about it .
New Apple hardware and software
Apple updated the Time Capsule , introducing a newfangled 3 TB variant of its Wi - Fi hard drive . And the company also publish a minor revision to theAirPort Extreme base station , but tried to do so when no one was looking .
With a bit more fanfare , Apple issued what may well be the last everSnow Leopard update , 10.6.8 . Along with the OS update cameSecurity Update 2011 - 004 , which is as exciting as its name portends .
iPhone and iPad
You take the good , you take the bad , you take them both , and then you have the workweek in iPhone carrier - related announcements . Verizon ’s outright nomadic data plansare going the way of MobileMe iWeb hosting(boo ! ) , but T - Mobile continues to welcome iPhone customers and says more thanone million iPhonesare on its connection .
Rich Mogull wrote up a heap of tips onhow to use your iPad securely . ( amazingly , he miss no - brainers like “ wear a helmet ” and “ avoid wild animals . ” ) I wrote up a guide for novice oncreating and organizing iOS folders . And Chris Breen aid you boost your EQ IQ with his guide to the iTunes equalizer and iOS devices .
If you were skip to grab the ThirdIntifada iPhone app , you ’re too late ; Apple pulled it . If you were hoping to surf theNew York Post ’s internet site from your iPad , you may’t;the company now requires you practice its iPad appinstead . But if you want to put your iPhonein a fancy new caseor fiddle a quick game of Tiny Wings , that you may do .
Other apps we reviewed this past workweek included Smart Pad , iCatcher , Pocketbooth , and a duad of iPad bedtime apps . We hope only those last apps , not the limited review themselves , put you to kip .
The Law
On the sound front , Apple fare somewhat well this hebdomad . The society was award a patent on the iPhone ’s multitouch interface . Lodsys , the company litigate iOS developers for infringing its patent , requested more timeto response to Apple ’s motion to step in in the case . And the International Trade Commission give itself an special week to rule on an ongoing letters patent guinea pig that match Apple alongside RIM against Kodak . If plow the latest Apple legal developments is a law-breaking , considerMacworldvery , very guilty .
Tips and How-to’s
ErstwhileMacworldstaff editor David Chartier wrote up a tutorial onhow and why to search Twitter — and each prison term is exactly 140 characters long . ( Note : One part of the previous sentence is a lie . ) Alexandera Chang wrote up500px , a new pic - sharing site . We also helped you compute out which appswon’t work on Lion , find and play high definition audio , and monitor your Macfrom your Dock . We really are very dainty , very helpful multitude . By the agency , you have something perplex in your teeth .
