Do n’t align your Retina video display ; I ’m not Lex Friedman , but this is still The Weekly Wrap . This week , Apple announced a good deal of new products for you to spend your intemperately - gain money on , we get hold of a expression at some keen new software system and hardware , and what week would be sodding without us demonstrate you how to do things that you ’ve never done before .
Most of all , though , we ’re just glad thatApple is now formally cool .
Center stage
Primadonna that Apple is , the fellowship demand our tending on Tuesday . If , somehow , you miss out on the active duette of Tim Cook and Phil Schiller , you’re able to live over the experiencewith our live blog .
Okay , I guess , Apple also inclose a couple other things . Anew 13 - in MacBook Pro with a Retina display , for example , atotally reimagined iMac , and — delivering on the “ little more to show you ” theme — a speed - bumpedMac mini . Those last two include someEmmett Brown - stylestorage devices , too .
And that was it . The end .
… You ’re still here ? The case ’s over . Go home ! Fine , okay , there was alsoa fourth - generation iPad and an iPad minitoo . fortuitously , the latter live up to precisely whattwo of our finest theoretic minds omen .
Major league products
The more newfangled products Apple launches , the more data there is for us to bring you . Wegot our golden Orlando di Lasso around iBooks 3.0 , used every contraption on our utility beltsto get our hands on the iPad miniskirt , and determined you do n’t need to be Superman tocarry around the new MacBook Pro(turns out itbenefits from flashalmost as much asKeystone City . )
Elsewhere , we(man)hunted down all the details on the new iPads , and attempt to ascertain if the iPad mini could deem a candle — or , should I say , a lantern — tocompeting tablets . And , of course , we convoke our own conference of heroes to hash out the announcements onthe late Macworld podcast .
That’s why they call it money
In case that was n’t enough , Apple also made — rough speaking — a hojillion dollar sign this week . It was n’t enough to affordTim Cook a wing car , but at least ithelped out AT&T , and if there ’s one affair we can all agree on it ’s that AT&T seriously needs some assistance .
Fellowship of the reviewers
It was n’t just Apple ware on which we plow our unblinking eye this workweek . Some guy named Lex Friedman says theLibratone Zippis the one AirPlay speaker to rule them all . Senior editor Roman Loyolarecommended the Mac Gem QuickRes , which lease you quickly adjust your Retina show ’s resolution from hobbit- to Balrog - size .
MailSteward Pro 9will prevent your electronic mail archive from turning into the mine of Moria , andLetterpress is a great new Io gamethat glows gentle when in the mien of orcs .
How in the world
Learning about new products is all well and ripe , but what do you do with them once you have them ? We ’re here to aid you out with theirChris Breen speak of mice and keyboards , andshowed you how to appropriate the dubious battle of using two accounts at the same meter , andexplained how to avoid your squawk of ire when calendar alerts keep launching Mail .
We also evidence you how to fixMac phone issues , misfiring trailer downloads , and over - capacity Io devices;create cool picture form of address with Final Cut Pro X;share Reminders with others via iCloud and Mountain Lion ; and gettranscripts in content
Where do we go from here?
All this Apple newsworthiness encourages some deep thought , so we turned to Michael Gartenberg to find outwhere Apple goes from here . ( Hint : Lex Friedman saysit ’s in a rotary , though I think we ’d all prefer if the caller did n’t get back to theland before Macs . ) Yours truly , though , thinksiOS 6 ’s Passbook has nowhere to go but up from here .
Round ups
As always , we rounded up the common suspects : iOS apps that are breaking out like zombi , iPad cases that have blend in mini , andiOS accessory that play well with others . We also took a flavour at the variety ofread it afterwards services(bookmark that one for a expression some time ) , and riffed on music - recognition apps .
