The Fair Labor Association found problems at Foxconn . Closer to household , we can aid you solve problems you line up with your iPad or Mac . And a few of the apps we looked at this past hebdomad might help you find yourself — at least , if you’re able to find yourself by trying out a paint app or a inject biz . Join me for another variant of the only Macworld tale that tries to point you to all the bestotherMacworld write up from the preceding seven days : The Weekly Wrap .
Of or pertaining two the new iPad
We reason thatyour young iPad ’s battery is just fine . And then we ask the Macworld Lab to prove it ; we plant thatthe new iPad ’s battery is as good as Apple say it is , but not quite as sound as the iPad 2 ’s battery . If you ’re positive you get a charge out of assault and battery analysis , you ’ll want sure enough be electrify by our write up .
elderly editor Dan Frakes think thatmany of us do n’t realize just how great the iPad ’s Retina display really is . I think I see his point . Get it ?
If you only address yourself to a new 16 GB iPad and are running out of elbow room after syncing the complete “ Weird Al ” Yankovic discography , you have a couple options : You could clean upthe Wi - Drive , a Wi - Fi - enabled iOS - favorable external drive , or you check up on out our guide on how to justify up blank on your iOS machine . Or you could can just give up in disgust and send your iPad to me , caution ofMacworld .
Meanwhile , the Fair Labor Association found“significant issues”at Foxconn facilities in China , and the supplier to Apple and other tech companies says that it ’s already started to make changes . We trust change No . 1 is n’t to make not to be home when the Fair Labor Association drop by for a confab .
Other iOS-related info
If you ’re having trouble pairing your iPhone via Bluetooth , Ted Landau can help . Note , however , that he only makes house calls for salacious gobs of money .
If you , like me , did n’t win Fridays ’s Mega Millions lottery jackpot , you might select more low-cost mean value of entertaining yourself with your iOS machine . For starter , you could analyse up on making canonic edits in iPhoto . you could learn how some at Disney see Where ’s My Water’sSwampy the Alligator as a luck like Mickey Mouse .
need to get over text manipulation on your iOS equipment?This video tipmay serve . If you scored a unexampled iPad and want to bequeath your sometime one to a shaver , we have a template for that , too .
Among the apps we looked at this week wereTaposé , iBomber Defense Pacific , Paper , anda pair of National Geographic atlas apps .
Our hardware store
Our stave evaluated several interesting accessories this week . We depend at the Behringer U - Phono UFO202 , for digitizing your old vinyl records . But it still wo n’t make you think musictodaysounds any commodity .
We look at a couple Joy Factory styluses , and though they ’re enough , we ’re not positive they have the write stuff .
We like theTouro Mobile Proportable hard drive , and we likeAudyssey ’s Lower East Side Audio Dock Air AirPlay speaker , too . We ’re not sure if they like us back , or merely tolerate our front .
In the Lion’s den
Before you go , here ’s a spry rundown on some of our Mac reporting from the calendar week gone by : Tame Lion ’s Resume featureslets you decide whether Preview designate you last workweek ’s PDF when you launch it again today . When it comes to deleting files , there ’s gone , and then there ’s Jimmy Hoffa live on ; we show youhow to achieve the latter choice .
For beginners , here ’s a quick primer onsetting applications to launch when you first reverse on your Mac . I have my own Mac set to spell another Weekly Wrap whenever I boot .
