Every Saturday , we round down up some of Macworld ’s most significant history from the week go by . That way , if you missed something interesting the first time around , you could catch up on it later . This week , to change things up a bit , we ’ll show you one history from each Macworld staffer who published one this hebdomad .
Jason Snell , our editorial director , encouraged reader to write a novel in 30 days with NaNoWriMo . It ’s not too late to start your own journey to 50,000 Bible . It may help you catch up on the word count if you describe one character reference as “ very , very , very , very , very , very , very , very , very , very , very , very , very , very handsome . ” It is acceptable if you name that character after me .
Senior editorChristopher Breenwrote up an excellent opus onmanaging stamp battery life for iOS 5 devices . Indeed , earlier this workweek , Apple confirmed an iOS 5 battery drain issue existed , but who need to wait for iOS 5.0.1 ? If your battery icon is turn reddish at lunch period , you ’ll require to record Chris ’s advice .
Dan Frakesis a senior editor in chief , too . Dan anointedFreeSpace a Mac Gem . It ’s a menubar utility that point how much spare space is remaining on your Mac and any connected drives — and lets you turf out drives from the menu , too . true statement be told , when I saw the app ’s name , I was hoping it was a public-service corporation that call for the release of the universe at large . My red ink .
elderly associate degree editorDan Morenreported onApple ’s loser to launch iTunes Match . The company had promised the serve would launch by the end of October , but thus far , our iTunes libraries remain disappointingly unmatched . Apple ride us byexposing iTunes Match option on the Apple TV , but for now , the service is about as tangible as , say , an iPhone 6 .
Staff writerLex Friedman — whom some have key out as very , very , very , very good-looking — compose up a fib on thesandboxing requirement come to the Mac App Store in March , and why some developers are concerned about it . Sandboxing has gotten such a bad tap of of late that Apple ’s debate rename the technology to Playpenning instead .
faculty editorSerenity Caldwell(if thatisher veridical name ) wenthands on with newly - cosmopolitan GarageBand 1.1 . Ren pronounce that Apple did an telling job bosom just about all of the iPad app ’s functionality into the iPhone ’s svelte filmdom infinite , and with minimal port changes . Disappointingly , Apple did not comprehend my advise solution of offer a individual - greenback piano . ( Specifically , D # was my recommendation . )
Alexandra Chang , another staff editor , reported on the exciting news that Google secrete a native Gmail app for iOS . Of course , as Alexandra noted , Google commit the app from the store a short sentence afterwards . It did n’t help that Gmail exhibit an wrongdoing on first launch . We know Google is fixing that part ; whether the company is address other concern — the deficiency of multiple account backing , the fact that much of the app is a WWW panorama , and not truly aboriginal — we wo n’t know until Google resubmits the app to the App Store . Presuming it does n’t pull up it right out this time .
add up back again next Saturday , when we ’ll enwrap up another week ’s Charles Frederick Worth of stories . We may even propose more tip on padding out your November novel , too .
