Lion secrets revealed, Mac and iOS apps, and panic

10.09.2011
The kids are back in school. Football season is underway. That can only mean one thing: We haven't found ourselves stuck in a frozen timeless vortex of agony and despair. Let's celebrate our good fortune with another edition of the Weekly Wrap, wherein we look back at 's best stories from the past week.

, and said it wasn't aiming for feature parity with its Windows counterpart. In his , contributor Jeffery Battersby reassures us that, fortunately, the software doesn't appear to be a feature of its Windows counterpart, either.

. A few disgruntled customers who have chosen to stick with Snow Leopard threatened a boycott, before realizing the futility of such a plan mere seconds later. Meanwhile, that seemingly competes with iCloud's photo syncing services. Though Carousel is available and iCloud isn't yet, I suppose you could call them both ware.

We covered plenty of iOS apps this week, too:

Senior editor Chris Breen can help you avoid , which ideally means you won't be showing your Mac any unkind gestures of your own. His fellow senior editor, Dan Frakes, wrote up an app that helps you make various Lion tweaks; the app is creatively named .

Contributor Sharon Zardetto , at which point they promptly stopped being secrets, and her otherwise excellent feature suddenly became a paradox. Mr. Breen jumped on the Spotlight bandwagon with advice for folks whose , if I remember correctly.

We also offered up a hint about . When real Lions start hiding tools, that's when I'll panic.

Don't, yet. But do read up an ongoing iTunes gift credit theft we're calling ; it's written by one of my all-time favorite writers. If you prefer your lengthy articles in audio form, senior associate editor Dan Moren and I recorded a , too.

Meanwhile, if you want to ensure you're browsing the Web safely--and you should--.

We love software--who doesn't? But we love hardware, too. We reviewed the , rounded up , and, of course, , too.

And if you want to know just how well your Macs are running, we can help. Our lab director James Galbraith wrote up , and also shared . (Spoiler: Thunderbolt is so fast, it already finished reading this Weekly Wrap.)

Oh, and look at that--so did you! We'll see you here again next week, and we'll miss you terribly until then.