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The hits just keep on coming . Having releasednew MacBook Airs , raw Mac minis , a new display , and — oh yeah — Lionon Wednesday , you ’d think Apple had dropped enough products to last a month . But , in the quarrel of Steve Jobs , there ’s just one more thing : Safari 5.1 . The new reading of Apple ’s entanglement internet browser is let in in Lion , but it ’s also availableas a freestanding downloadfor users of Snow Leopard and Windows ....

[ Apple COO Tim Cook spoke to analysts after Apple ’s record financial results Tuesday . This is an edited transcript of his remark . ] iPad cannibalization? In terms of cannibalization , we do trust that some customers chose to buy an iPad instead of a new Mac in the quarter . But we also believe that even more customers chose to buy an iPad over Windows PC . As I ’ve said before , there ’s a lot more of the Windows microcomputer business to cannibalise than the Mac ....

The Google+ iOS node offer fast access to most of the service ’s features . When Google+ launched deep last month , Google released an Android app for the service and promised that an Io appwould join it soon ; on Tuesday , Google delivered with an official aboriginal guest for Apple ’s peregrine weapons platform . At least , forsomeof Apple ’s mobile platform . While the Google+ iOS app is designed for iPhones run iOS 4....

Our Verdict One of the biggest draws of societal media is its power to seemingly connect you with anyone at any clock time . Yet it can be easy to lose track of everything when you ’re speak to so many different hoi polloi on Facebook , Twitter and email . Social Clipboard(Mac App Store link ) , by Agile Route Software , aims to remedy this problem by making it easier to deal subject across all your social profiles at once ....

Our Verdict In my family room sit several rack full of hundreds of videodisk , typesetter’s case after case of evidence of the moving-picture show and TV show collection lovingly crafted over more than a decennium . But I have n’t lend a disc to my collecting in the past duet years ; Netflix envision to that . And now that Netflix and many other companies offer inst access to moving-picture show and goggle box shows , the whole net is my assemblage ....

Next - generation iPhone rumors are a bit like ants — no matter how much you try out , you just ca n’t keep them out . Elsewhere , RIM presses suspension on the PlayBook , an iPhone jumps and lives , and Samsung compass itself even deeper into the copycat hole . The remainders for Monday , July 18 , 2011 cuss to tell the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth ....

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Many of us spend hour upon hours in front of our Macs . Between all the emails , document , projects , and PDFs , it can be easily to suffer rails of clip . Time Tracker , a utility developed by Aaron VonderHaar , offers a extremely customizable yet comfortable to habituate solution for anyone looking to cross their time spend on the figurer ....

Many Mac tips—onhints.macworld.comand elsewhere around the Web — require you to use thedefaultscommand in the Terminal . That dictation have you correct secret preferences that are otherwise inaccessible . For example , defaultscan help youget rid of the Ping drib - downin iTunes , disable OS X ’s warnings about opening download file , show all files in the Finder , make the helper Viewer behave like a normal window , set half - hotshot ratings in iTunes , shrink the Dockdramatically , dip Dock icons for obscure applications programme , tweak the CrashReporter , among many , many other system tweaks ....

I love my local library — I love browsing and adoption books that I want to register . I even get it on gibe out e - playscript for my iPad indication pleasure . But when I find a Koran I really care , one I require to use as a reference , or read multiple time , or even just have on my bookshelf to cue me of the time I read it , the library is of no use to me ....

Last calendar week I was fortunate enough to follow from three miles away as 4.5 million Sudanese pound of spacecraft shot up on a mainstay of flak , pierce the clouds and heading for an orbital rendezvous with the International Space Station . As I watchedAtlantismake the final launch of the 30 - year - old space shuttle program , I was strike by the overlap of technology and human race that I had witness ....

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict For many multitude , the need to immortalise daily bit and natural event in a paper journal has been replace by Twitter , Tumblr , blogs , Facebook , and e-mail . If you wonder what you were doing on March 23 , you could do a quick lookup or your Gmail inbox , check your WordPress web log , or glance over that day ’s social networking post ....

Thunderbolt is quite fast , as our lab has experienced first hand . In our on-going look at Thunderbolt performance , we tested two more configurations , as requested byMacworldreaders . The first involves the new Promise Pegasus R6 Thunderbolt array configured as a RAID 0 ; the second is with Target Disk Mode using Thunderbolt . ( Previously , we comparedThunderbolt and FireWire 800speed . We also look at Thunderbolt and eSATA ....

Has Apple found its raw central processing unit soul mate ? Is your iPad passcode opening you up to prying eye ? Does Paul Allen ’s patent suit stand a luck ? Is Apple planning on Thunderbolting one of its primary peripherals ? Will the remainders for Friday , July 15 , 2011 answer evenoneof these motion ? TSMC in tribulation manufacture of Apple chips – source(Reuters ) The ever - baffling “ source familiar with the matter ” ( boy , they get around do n’t they ?...