Weekly Wrap: Fear, Photos, and 'Flix

24.09.2011
Each week, we're faced with an impossible task when we try to round up the best stories of the week gone by--because everything we publish is, as you'd expect, pretty great. But we've made a series of Sophie's choices, and we're proud to offer you this roundup of articles worth clicking on, if you missed them earlier this week. And heck, if you already read them once, they're even better the second time around.

Our big story of the week was probably our review of the snazzy new Thunderbolt display from Apple. It's , says Macworld Lab director James Galbraith. I mean, unless you carry your Air with you wherever you go. That 27-inch display will not fit in most laptop bags.

We want you to back up your iPad, so if iTunes has been giving you errors in that regard, . We also want you to move data between your Macs as painlessly as possible; hence, .

We want you to read more books without spending a dime, and that's why we're so darn excited about . We also want you to use AirDrop, one of Lion's coolest features, which is why we revealed this week that .

Speaking of things we want you to do: We want you to keep your Mac safe. So read this , a utility that makes sure your Mac stays locked up tight. Then study Glenn Fleishman's explanation of like the ones we've been reporting on this year.

In other scary news, Dan Moren warns that ; I swear, however, that his password was "I love Lex!" long before I got to his Mac. And Serenity Caldwell keeps fear alive with her report on , further proving that you should never turn your computer on and should instead run screaming for the hills. That's what I'm doing, anyway.

It was a busy week for video- and photo-related news. , for one. (Note that I'm using the term "universally beloved" in the sense of ".") The company updated , too.

On the still photo side--or perhaps, the one-frame movie side--Adobe released and , furthering Adobe's long-fought battle with Apple over whether or not to use Roman numerals in representing the number ten in software names.

Meanwhile, makes it even easier (and, perhaps, less distressing) to share distressed photos. When it's time to share all your photos, we have some suggestions if you're looking for before that service goes away. And did you know that you can ?

And, of course, if you're more interested in watching Hollywood's movies than creating your own, you should know that , and that some of us--namely, me--.

Elsewhere around the site, we offered up some thoughts on --although, to our shame, we missed an opportunity to make a poke-a/polka joke. We also noted how Facebook's CEO this week... and didn't really carry it off.

. Philip Michaels found that . And Jon Seff reports on a new app (plus Logitech hardware accessory) for . And yet the App Store still lacks a single entry that can make French fries. Developers: We're waiting.