That tick , tick , ticking you hear is the March of the Impending Holidays . Before the gift - buying , family - chew the fat , eggnog - sipping chaos reaches a tipping point , take some quiet You sentence to read overMacworld’sweekly roundup of our swelled story from the past week . This calendar week , we ’ll do a top 12 list — one for each Clarence Day of Christmas . ( Or , 1.5 for each day of Hannukah ; your call . )
Five unexpected America for the spacebarNot listed : It makes a slap-up diving instrument panel for those little green toy army men .
Siri feature we ’d like to seeWe had a few more wishes for this story , but finally Siri got angry and stopped transcribing them . Robot overlords these days , am I right ?
Consumer report card : AT&T is res publica ’s worst carrier , againAt least , wethinkthat ’s whatConsumer Reportssaid . It was awfully hard to listen them on our iPhone .
Apple tops PCWorld reliability , gratification surveysIt was overnice of PCWorld ’s readers to vote Apple product as the upside in the background , laptop computer , smartphone , and pill categories , but now our colleague across the hall desire to jazz when we ’re run to reciprocate by liveblogging Microsoft keynotes .
gemstone for a Steal , ReduxFor a limited time only , you’re able to find fault up this bundle of eight Mac software titles for just $ 40 — with six of those apps being official Mac Gems . The other two apps are fine as well , but they ’re more like Mac Cubic Zirconia .
How Thunderbolt equipment impress each other on a daisy chainOur lab daisy - chain together oodles of Thunderbolt equipment so that you do n’t have to . Before you set out take SCSI - colligate flashbacks , check up on out our theme . ( Also , Brobdingnagian acknowledgment to Lab Director James Galbraith for the newspaper headline we used on our home page for this tarradiddle , “ Going off the rails on a daisy chain . ” )
Mac OS decade screenshot secretsYou think you do it everything there is to know about screenshots , and then along come this video tutorial with an incredible spacebar trick . No , not that one , a different one . Trust me .
Six iOS apps rent you speedily create and send vacation cardsBefore you pop scare through the Charles Percy Snow , you ought to get your holiday cards in the mail . We looked at six iOS apps that can help .
Make the time of year bright with vacation videosIt ’s a templet to online sources for some of our preferent seasonal videos . And if you ’d rather just have a Yule Log — there is , unsurprisingly , an app for that .
iPod nano watchbandsTurns out , vendors are induce some somewhat slick watchbands for the iPod nano . Just cerebrate how coolheaded it ’ll be if one solar day the nano could play your euphony , in addition to telling time !
chirrup let on new design , revamped iPhone appThe good newsworthiness is , everyone loves the new look . The risky news is , I ’m a diseased liar .
Have a great weekend , dear readers . We ’ll get you next Saturday for another edition of the Weekly Wrap .
