The kids are back in school . Football time of year is underway . That can only mean one thing : We have n’t discover ourselves stuck in a wintry timeless whirlpool of excruciation and despair . lease ’s lionize our good fortune with another edition of the Weekly Wrap , wherein we look back atMacworld ’s in force taradiddle from the past calendar week .
Soft wherewithal
Intuit release a new version of QuickBooks for Mac , and said it was n’t aiming for feature parity with its Windows counterpart . In hisfirst look at QuickBooks 2012 , contributor Jeffery Battersby assure us that , fortunately , the software does n’t seem to be a featureparodyof its Windows counterpart , either .
1Password went Lion- and Mac App Store - only . A few dissatisfied client who have choose to stick with Snow Leopard jeopardize a boycott , before realizing the futility of such a plan bare seconds after . Meanwhile , Adobe launched Carousel , a cloud - base exposure appthat apparently competes with iCloud ’s photo syncing service . Though Carousel is uncommitted and iCloud is n’t yet , I suppose you could call them bothvaporware .
We covered plenty of iOS apps this workweek , too :
We can’t hide our Lion pride
elderly editor Chris Breen can avail you avoidtriggering unintended multitouch gestures , which ideally think you wo n’t be showing your Mac any unkind gestures of your own . His fellow aged editor , Dan Frakes , write up an app that help you make various Lion pinch ; the app is creatively namedLion Tweaks .
We also offered up a pinch aboutmonitoring Wi - Fi with Lion ’s hidden tool . When real Leo bulge hiding tools , that ’s when I ’ll terror .
Speaking of panic…
Do n’t , yet . But do read up an on-going iTunes talent credit stealing we ’re callingthe Towson Hack ; it ’s spell by one of my all - time favoriteMacworldwriters . If you prefer your lengthy clause in audio build , senior associate editor Dan Moren and I recorded aTowson Hack podcast , too .
Meanwhile , if you desire to see you ’re range the World Wide Web safely — and you should — verify you open fire up Software Update .
Some serious hardware
We love software package — who does n’t ? But we roll in the hay hardware , too . We review the WaterField intent MacBook Air Smart Case , labialize upanother workweek ’s worth of iPhone Cases , and , of course , a slew of iOS accessories , too .
And if you want to know just how well your Macs are running , we can help . Our lab music director James Galbraith wrote upour new Speedmark 7 bench mark retinue , and also sharedmore Thunderbolt performance prosody . ( Spoiler : Thunderbolt is so fast , it already finish reading this Weekly Wrap . )
Oh , and look at that — so did you ! We ’ll see you here again next week , and we ’ll leave out you abominably until then .
