Sure , Apple did n’t releaseanothernew iPad or new Apple TV this calendar week , but the company did n’t let the week go by without make some new news . If you need to ensure you ’re caught up on Apple ’s news from the past week , along with our reviews , tutorial , and opinion pieces , you ’ve come to the correct station : The Weekly Wrap . Population : Me and you .
Apple’s cash cache
other Monday , Apple annunciate a dividend and a ploughshare repurchase broadcast , two program geared towards sharing fellowship net income with investors and spending some of the nearly $ 100 billion Apple has in its bank bill . Apple apparently turn down out of hand my hint that they instead take the $ 100 billion — and apologies if complex financial concepts like this one are a bit tricky for laypeople to understand — andgive it all to me .
During that same press conference , Apple CEO Tim Cook said that Apple had enjoyeda “ record weekend ” of iPad gross revenue ; Apple afterwards explained that it had sell more than 3 million new iPads during the pad ’s curtain raising weekend . That ’s or so one iPad sold for every anxious partitioning the guy who oversees the Motorola Xoom suffered during that same time period . It ’s vindicated , though , that the iPad is on flack ( not literally ) .
We painstakingly transcribedTim Cook ’s input from the press conference , only remembering the existence of built - in written text on the new iPad once we were complete .
In other Apple news program , the companyupdated its report on supplier workings conditions . And we took a look at the special servicesbusiness owner can get at their locality Apple Store.(Spoiler : Still no drive - through iMac purchasing option . )
App news and reviews
We reported on the acquire trend ofusing iOS devices as cash registers . Perhaps Draw Something developer OMGPop can apply its iPhone to ring upZynga ’s $ 200 million leverage .
We looked at three toy you control with your iPhone , though in our case , oftentimes the iPhone finger like the electronic plaything that controls us . If you utilize your iPhone to get from Point A to Point B , you might enjoy these eight tips for using the Maps app . You also might enjoy saying “ Maps app ” over and over again . I know I do .
If you ’re still not sure about what to do with your old iPad , may we humbly suggest turning it into a dedicated kitchen tablet ? ( Please note : The iPad make an absolutely atrocious newspaper clipping circuit card . )
And like we always do , we looked at oodles of apps over the retiring calendar week , among them : MyTunes Pro HD , Sparrow , Pokertini and Fairway Solitaire , Monster Flip , Cinderella , Beatstream , Comixology , and the poetically named MyPix Photo Watermarking and Sharing .
The Mac
We can help you getdigital copies of your Mac manual , teach you toskirt Lion ’s auto - login , andshow you seven way to free up crusade outer space .
We write up great deal of Mac software . Here’sa video guide to organise your Mac ’s files with Hazel , for instance . We reviewedAccessMenuBarApps , Merlin 2 , andCloak . And we took a first - feeling atthe Photoshop CS6 Beta , too .
I want my Apple TV
Dan Frakes , Christopher Breen , and Philip Michaels dish up about the fresh Apple TV in another edition of the Macworld podcast . Elsewhere , Mr. Breen , the hardest - shape TV watcher in the tech writing industriousness , offeredApple TV troubleshooting backsheesh , and explain a number Apple TV , mirroring , and view ratio .
That ’s all for this variant of the Wrap . We ’ll see you again in a workweek , if we can pull ourselves away from Chris Breen ’s Apple TV .
