As expected, the U.S. Department of Justice filed against several large ebook publishers--and Apple. The DOJ alleges that the companies colluded on pricing for ebooks in violation of federal law. which is certainly a better counter argument than "yep, we're guilty as sin."
Some observers say that the DOJ's case will be a boon to Amazon, handing that company the ebook market. We debated ; one theory holds that if the DOJ emerges victorious in its case, ebook prices will see a race to the bottom, with cheap ebooks spreading like a virus. An analogy we use only to facilitate a segue into...
Man, Flashback had a good week (in terms of press attention), but a lousy one (in the sense that it's pretty much dead now).
checks your Mac before Flashback wrecks your Mac. Or soon thereafter, technically, if indeed it finds that you're already infected.
Kaspersky released an app that found and removed the Flashback virus from your Mac, but the app , too. Awkward. As they say in Russia, where Kaspersky is headquartered: . The company did . But if you're now a bit hesitant to rush in to the Russian tool, you have an option direct from Cupertino: Apple released ; this one removes Flashback and disables the Java plug-in by default--and all without that accidental file deletion.
. A picture is worth a thousand words; an Instagram image is apparently worth a thousand millions. After we scooped our jaws up off the floor, we wondered , and also considered . Besides a lot of new cars for the people who created the app, that is.
If Facebook pokes you the wrong way, you can still tweak your photos on your iPhone in other ways; check our tutorial on .
BBEdit turned 20, and . We didn't send it a card, but we could have, thanks to our tutorial on how to .
But if you'd rather feel dreary than cheery, don't miss our takedowns of and , two Apple apps upon which we heaped significant criticisms this week.
We put together a slideshow with . We offered advice on , and . And we , too.
And, as always, we looked at a bunch of apps; among them: , , , , and .
We looked at , which lets you use keyboard to control your Wi-Fi connection, and , a Markdown preview utility.
On the troubleshooting side, we have advice on , and we can help you without resorting to exorcism.
And if you want to manage your Mac's keyboard shortcuts without sacrificing any of the brain cells you devote to remembering every word of the Mentos jingle, .
But if you want nothing more than to read next week's Weekly Wrap, we can't help you with that just yet. Try again next Saturday, though, and we'll see what we can do.