Each week , we ’re look with an unacceptable task when we attempt to round up the bestMacworldstories of the week fail by — because everything we publish is , as you ’d expect , pretty great . But we ’ve made a series of Sophie ’s choices , and we ’re proud to offer you this roundup of article worth clicking on , if you escape them earlier this workweek . And heck , if you already read them once , they ’re even better the 2d prison term around .
Thunderbolt strikes!
Our big report of the week was credibly our review of the snazzy new Thunderbolt show from Apple . It ’s peculiarly awesome if your main ax is a MacBook Air , say Macworld Lab manager James Galbraith . I have in mind , unless you carry your line with you wherever you go . That 27 - column inch video display will not fit in most laptop udder .
Things we want you to do
We require you to back up your iPad , so if iTunes has been giving you error in that compliments , study Ted Landau ’s repair . We also need you to move information between your Macs as painlessly as potential ; hence , Chris Breen ’s guide to using Migration Assistant .
We need you to record more Good Book without spending a dime , and that ’s why we ’re so darn excited aboutAmazon ’s new Kindle integration with 11,000 local libraries across the country . We also want you to use AirDrop , one of Lion ’s coolest feature , which is why we revealed this week thatyou can actually employ AirDrop on any Lion Mac .
Fear itself
Speaking of things we want you to do : We need you to keep your Mac secure . So register this Mac Gems revaluation of Padlock , a utility that do sure your Mac stays lock up tight . Then hit the books Glenn Fleishman ’s account of how to protect your Mac from SSL certificate breaches like the ace we ’ve been reporting on this year .
In other scary news , Dan Moren admonish thata Lion exposure could let an attacker change your countersign ; I depose , however , that his word was “ I have a go at it Lex ! ” long before I got to his Mac . And Serenity Caldwell keep fear awake with her report ona Trojan horse masquerading as a PDF , further raise that you should never plow your computer on and should alternatively play yell for the hills . That ’s what I ’m doing , anyway .
You ought to be in pictures
It was a busy calendar week for video- and photo - related news . Apple released an update to its universally - beloved Final Cut Pro X , for one . ( mark that I ’m using the term “ universally beloved ” in the mother wit of “ not universally beloved . ” ) The company updatedCompressor and Motion , too .
On the still photo side — or perhaps , the one - frame pic side — Adobe releasedPremiere Elements 10and Photoshop Elements 10 , advance Adobe ’s long - crusade conflict with Apple over whether or not to expend Roman numerals in play the identification number ten in software name .
Meanwhile , Instagram 2.0makes it even easy ( and , perhaps , less distressing ) to apportion distressed photo . When it ’s time to apportion all your exposure , we have some suggestions if you ’re appear forsome MobileMe gallery alternativesbefore that service goes aside . And did you experience that you canimport photograph from your iPad without using iPhoto ?
And , of course , if you ’re more interested in watching Hollywood ’s movies than creating your own , you should know thatNetflix is splitting itself into two companies , and that some of us — namely , me — aren’t that happy about it .
Miscellaneous M
Elsewhere around the site , we offered up some thoughts on Facebook and the future of euphony — although , to our shame , we pretermit an opportunity to make a pry - a / polka antic . We also noted how Facebook ’s CEOtried to displume a Steve Jobsthis calendar week … and did n’t really carry it off .
Apple topped some more customer experience and satisfaction surveys . Philip Michaels found thatiOS game Cowboy Guns is n’t really worth a shooter . And Jon Seff reports on a new app ( plus Logitech ironware accessory ) forturning your iPad into a universal remote . And yet the App Store still lacks a single entry that can make Gallic nipper . developer : We ’re waiting .
