Hang in there , folks . We ’re in the long slog between the Fourth of July long weekend and the Labor Day tenacious weekend , with a mountain of regular old two - mean solar day weekends in between . Since you know you ’re back to work on Monday , liven up this weekend by kicking back with another edition ofMacworld’sWeekly Wrap , where we fill you in on our biggest stories from the week gone by .
Mac stuff
Dan Frakes wants to help your Macget quick for Lion . ( stair 1 : Geta four - legged chair . ) We also have advice on how best toorganize your iOS apps using a tuck - away iTunes characteristic . And we uncoveredsix tricks you could pull off with the Tab winder .
We assembled a aggregation ofcool iPhoto plug - Hoosier State , and offer some advice onsorting your iPhoto events . If you ’d rather falsify your photo than organise them , we have a tutorial on creating vector masquerade party in Photoshop .
Christoher Breen do it soft tocopy Stickies from one Mac to another(though it ’s even easier if you ’re utter about the real - humans paper kind ) . Jonathan Seff , meanwhile , was disappointed with a Mac app thatpurports to play Blu - ray movies . Of course , one of the pic he screen with wasHot Tub Time Machine , so Jon would have been disappointed if the software work well , too .
Yes, yes, iOS
On the iOS side of matter , Verizon dropped its outright data design — though , in a modification of yard for many U.S. iPhone customer , the society still did n’t drop any calls . While Verizon taketh aside , however , AT&T giveth : The company finally will offer a mobile insurance programme for the iPhone .
Crayola releasedan app / stylus combofor kids who get it on to distort but hate crayon and paper .
Marathon go far on the iPad , a mere 17 years after its initial release on the Mac . Frankly , I do n’t infer how the developers did n’t get the iPad app finished at least ten or twelve years ago .
NASA sent another shuttle into place , andsent some modified iPhone 4s with it . No less than Steve Jobs himself warn cosmonaut that there could be performance issues with a weightless iPhone , if they were float it incorrect .
And , whatMacworldWeekly Wrap iOS - centre section could be complete without making mention of the impertinently - releasedversion 1.1 of the Macworld Daily Reader app . Now with push notifications and clear text edition . Also uncommitted , as an $ 899 in - app purchase option , is the chance to have aMacworldeditor come to your house and record selected stories aloud to you . ( Warning : Option may not actually exist , and even if it did , we get a line that Dan Moren is a notoriously unmanageable house Edgar Albert Guest . )
Music to my ears
If you love Terminal and you love rocking out , you ’ll require to take up onhow you’re able to command iTunes via vi . Meanwhile , music subscription service Spotify will launch in the U.S. soon , andChristopher Breen has some questions about it — among them , will Spotify promise not to ever rain cats and dogs anything byBaha humanity ? And if you ’d rather define up a streaming service of process of your own , read about how you may swarm sound recording from your iPhone or iPad back to your Mac with thelatest translation of Airfoil .
Google+ Um, Good!
Go hands - on with Google ’s Modern social internet , but ensure youconfigure your privacy preferences first . Google+ is probably worthabandoning Facebook for , unless of track the folk at Facebook crib some of Google+ ’s best feature . Oh , and if you require a business - well-disposed version of Google+ , then your best pick might be towait .
You canmake your Gmail look a lot like Google+ , too . And while you ’re mucking about in Gmail , make certain you back up your messages . And it ’s probably worth e-mail your great aunt Mildred ; she has n’t listen from you in eld .
All good things…
Another workweek is cease , and with it , another edition of the Weekly Wrap concludes as well . We ’ll be back next week , unless Apple releases Lion and we ’re too busy act with Mission Control .
