As our nation celebrates its independence , perhaps you feel guilty about exploiting yours . Sure , you ’re destitute to skip out on reading Macworld.com every once in a while — but when in the line of Malus pumila - centric events it becomes necessary for one reader to get up on what he or she missed , the Weekly Wrap is always happy to help .
I remember now why they call it Thunderbolt
It turns out Thunderbolt is jolly stinking fast . In our laboratory tests , Thunderbolt made FireWire 800 look like a floppy disk . If you actually require to put your fresh Mac ’s Thunderbolt port to sour , you ’ll want to grab Apple ’s Thunderbolt firmware update , along with its new$49 , FAQ - desirable Thunderbolt overseas telegram . You also might require to endeavor to procure a loanword , if you ’re desperate to break up up one of the fresh , professional - grade Thunderbolt raid .
Comparing Apple to oranges
Macworldeditorial director Jason Snell drop some time with HP ’s unexampled TouchPad and offered up this first feel . As I read it , the TouchPad is to the iPad as , say , Lady Gaga ’s “ take over This style ” is to Madonna ’s “ state Yourself . ” you could appreciate the newfangled one ’s sorely clear homage to the original , but it ’s gentle to love the original . The TouchPad , while telling on some stratum , justisn’t quick for the tablet big conference .
Microsoft Office 365 officially buy the farm livethis week , and we wrote up what it mean for Mac and iOS users . No matter how much attention Microsoft pays to its raw cloud service , we doubt senior contributor Andy Ihnatko will evercompare it — as he did with Apple ’s iCloud — to God .
Big Mac
Apple has promised that Lion ’s coming in July , and by glue if my calendar does n’t saywe’re in July right now . Any concluding formulation you require to ready your Mac for Lion ’s debut motivation to get plow , stat . Your Lion trainer and mine , Chris Breen , shareda few final tips on Lion software compatibility . He also wrote up a walkthrough for those of youstill cling to AppleWorks documents ; Snow Leopard is the death of the route for AppleWorks , so if you do n’t desire to lose entree to your old file after your Lion rising slope , ensure you say through Chris ’s advice . We also want to let you AppleWorks devotees acknowledge that , not too long ago , Apple released a very cool cellphone that you may not have pick up about yet .
The Mac IT Guy wrote upwhat Lion stand for for businesses ; if nothing else , we ’re certain that Apple ’s new operating organization is better for your business than an actual wild lion .
In the never - finish saga that is the Final Cut Pro X controversy , Applepublished a FAQ on the software , declaring — among other things — that the app will never be able to spell Final Cut Pro 7 projects . I wrote and publishedMacworld ’s story on that FAQ by 6:40 a.m. my time , because of my Passion of Christ for breaking news . Well , that and the fact that I live with three kids under five years previous , so I was unsurprisingly awake anyway .
We shared eight feature petition for iTunes . in person , all I need is for iTunes to domorestuff , beyond music playback , app , music , movie , and book shopping , iPod and iOS gadget syncing , podcast discovery , and Ping . Okay , I do n’t need it to do Ping at all , in reality . Speaking of iTunes , we offer some advice on how to keep your music — along with your photos , and the rest of your Mac ’s data point — safe when you ’re travel .
Reviews
Oh say , we did grade Software filthy and big Gems like Launcher andFake — Both of which made us happyWitness , Undock , MiRowEach is quite unspoilt , you know But iPhone flower apps — turns out they ’re mostly shitty necessitate an iPad 2 case?You’ve add up to the good place!Prefer Mac udder reviews ? Then enjoyChartier’sOh hey , we reviewedcamerasAnda fun but buggy word gameAnd DTerm scored four full miceAuditionearned the same
Everything else
We deal a hint onpublishing your iWebsite to Dropbox , bakshis on taking photos of pyrotechnic ( deterrent example : Use non - flammable camera ) , and an Automator work flow for moving files from subfolders .
Apple ’s legal suffering withSamsungandKodakare ongoing . I carry we ’ll see some veridical fireworks before long .
With that , you ’re pretty caught up on the preceding week atMacworld . And I ’m off to get hold some sparklers .
