Amazon ’s long - rumor pad of paper was finally revealed , while Apple ’s long - rumored iPhone update is just one Tuesday event aside from happening . It was a busy hebdomad in the existence of tech , but do n’t worry if you could n’t keep up with all of it — The Weekly Wrap is here to help you keep your Kindle flak separate from your iPhones - to - be .
Bugs & Fixes : AT&T ( over?)charges for mystery data usage
Turns out some phratry see ( much ! ) higher - than - expected data charge on their iPhone bills , and they ca n’t figure out why . Ted Landau has the answer : It turns out that when birds get VERY wild , they protrude downloadingGone with the Windto your iPhone again and again .
Speedy Thunderbolt devices lento come to market
Thunderbolt is say to be super fast — but the rollout of Thunderbolt accouterment has been deadening . That ’s the opposite ! Joel Mathis investigates , though alas he spends no metre investigating precisely what a bolt of thunder would be exactly . Bolts of lightning , sure . But thunder ?
The new Kindles : Which to prefer ?
Amazon unveiled not one , but three young Kindle models . Which one ’s right for you ? The newly keyboardless Kindle ? The touch - projection screen eastward - ink Kindle ? Or the Kindle Fire coloring tablet ? And perhaps even more importantly , which Kindle Fire - relate pun is correct for you when it comes time to make cockamamy headlines about it ? “ We did n’t start the Fire ? ” , “ Amazon to iPad : You ’re Fired ! ” , or perhaps , “ Amazon ’s Kindling starts a fervency . ” ( There is no right answer . )
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Server
John C. Welch describes a tidy sum of Lion Server good point , but he blame it for certification that he terms “ woefully lean . ” Hollywood has now optioned that phrase for a forthcoming feature of speech about an alien dancer with a Lion ’s heart of amber .
What Apple might announce at next week ’s iPhone case
Apple announcedan October 4 iPhone consequence , which of courseMacworldwill deal live . But since it has n’t happened yet , I made various conjecture about what Apple might herald that daylight . “ We ’re switch to Android ” offers 10,000 to 1 odds . ( Various editorspodcastedtheir prediction , too . )
Three tip for using iTunes on a small video display
These steps for maximize your iTunes experience on a tiny dispaly are fairly easy to follow . Well , except for gradation one , which is , “ Shrink yourself down to thumb size of it . ”
Apple malware update protects against PDF Trojan horse
It ’s true : Macs are n’t immune from malware . But things are far , far worse for Windows users . Especially because , you have sex , they use Windows every day .
