Weekly Wrap: Flashback, free Snow Leopard, Instagram alternatives

22.04.2012
The days are getting longer, and the weather's getting warmer. You're forgiven if you forgot to refresh Macworld.com as obsessively as often. Luckily, the Weekly Wrap, our collection of the best stories from the week gone by, is here to help you catch up on what you missed.

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In addition to eradicating Flashback, Apple put an end to . But while Apple taketh away, it also giveth, at least if you're still running Leopardeth: with the aim of getting them signed up for iCloud.

If you're looking to go from power user to superpower user, don't miss our tips on , creating , capturing , sending , and .

Mac software we looked at this week included , , , , and .

Apple released ; the latter adds templates for sending your mom a greeting for Mother's Day. Your mom knows you have an iPhone, and she told me to ask you if you could stop playing Draw Something for five minutes to send her a little card, if you're not too busy, sweetheart. She did change nearly every dirty diaper you ever had.

Unsure about whether you want to stick with Instagram now that it's part of Facebook? .

Also this week, we covered a lot of apps for doing to other stuff:

--an app for watching stars; --an app for stalking people (preferably, people you already know); --an app for reading articles; --for helping aliens; --for drawing things; --for writing in Markdown; and --for measuring dimensions.

If your iPhone works but won't take a charge, . If you're trying to use your iPad more and more like a touchscreen laptop, check out our review of the . And if you'd like to print from your iOS device without needing an AirPrint-ready printer, .

Like small square aliens, in businesses around the world. And in this week's podcast, our editors discuss how .