Weekly Wrap: Lion, iOS, and the Mac -- oh my!

13.08.2011
Hear that sound? That’s the sound of autumn’s unceasing approach. If you spent much of the past week enjoying summery weather before fall’s inevitable arrival, we can’t say we blame you. And we won’t hold a grudge if you missed a slew of important and exciting stories because of it. Instead, we’ll fill you in on all the good articles that you missed.

Although we’ve very nearly exhausted our supply of headline-worthy Lion puns, that hasn’t stopped us from covering Mac OS X 10.7 in great detail. If you’d like to show Lion who’s king of your Mac jungle, we can help you and . If, on the other hand, you’re still looking to migrate some files from an older Leopard Mac, you don’t necessarily need a CAT-5 cable, but you’ll definitely want to check out Apple’s .

If you’re worried about a potential crash the next time your Lion installation roars to a halt, you’ll want to check out Apple’s freshly-released . Dan Frakes, who’s installed Lion at least as many as went , which lets you turn a USB stick into a Lion book disk.

While our love for Lion knows few bounds, we stil came up with . Steve, feel free to call us if you need further elaboration on those issues. Meanwhile, .

When it comes to iPhone cases, contributor Marco Tabini is always on the case. Er, cases. , and then I write a weekly round-up of all our biggest stories each week, and if we stop, it’s worse than if .

We reviewed a slew of iOS apps:

• , which makes photo postcards, scored our stamp of approval, • , for saving frequently sent messages, lacks much SMS finesse, • , a game focused on killing the undead, is to re-die for, • , an engrossing, train-focused board game, is worth choo-choo-choosing, and • , a timer, reminder, and alarm clock app, is pretty beeping impressive.

Of course, now there’s more to the iOS ecosphere than true native apps. This past week, , and . , and he liked it, but he’s not ready to break up with the native Kindle app just yet. Yours truly spent some time (and a couple thousand words) ruminating on just .

We also wrote up , the new , Facebook’s new , and . Elsewhere, contributor Joel Mathis reported on , though in truth, he spent most of his time figuring out just how precisely you spell “Scosche.”

Intern-turned-staff-editor Alexandra Chang reviewed the , and also ended my streak as the sole member of the Macworld editorial team with an “x”-bearing name.

You don’t even need to bid a buck for ; it’s available in the Mac App Store for free. We reviewed the iOS-inspired , the HTML5-creation tool , and task-management software .

, but Chris Breen says . Chris also explains just what the heck , and . Watch for Chris’s series next week on “How to get kids off your darn lawn.”

Serenity Caldwell pours one out for . So if you’re one of the seven people making the switch from Walmart to iTunes—or one of the millions of folks who use iTunes—here’s Kirk McElhearn’s piece on . If you’d rather make your own kind of music, note that this past week.

Movie fans too may want to consider embracing iTunes, since DVD-streaming service after some legal wrangling. Speaking of legal wrangling, let Dan Moren take you for another edition of our intermittent roundups of Apple-related court matters.

And if you’d rather write your own roundup of our stories, we suggest that , and if you want to print it out, consider one of these . Then mail it to me and grant me permission to pass it off as next week’s Weekly Wrap.