Weekly Wrap: Mountain Lion 10.8.1, tons of apps, and more

26.08.2012
This week, solved such mysteries as The Case of the Sleepless Mac, How To Stop Google From Endlessly Checking for Updates, and What to Call a Big Group of iOS Apps. The Weekly Wrap is here to catch you up on those and other chilling tales. from the week gone by.

Mac wont sleep? We can help you figure out . We can also assist you in by way of iMovie. (If you read that one backwards, you start with Facebook and end up with a movie, .)

Its possible to . Start by writing one that says, Remember to read that article about getting organized with plain-text notes on a Post-It, then stick it on your forehead. Trust me on this.

If you have software from Google installed on your Mac, it phones home to the mothership with surprising frequency. Its not asking for new instructions from its alien overlords (probably); rather, its checking for software updates. If youd prefer not to allow the software to constantly poll for such updates, .

Speaking of updates, you probably want to grab , available either via the Mac App Store or directly from Apples website.

If its a gaggle of geese and a murder of crows, lets call it a Samsung of apps. Whatever you call it, we covered a of iPhone and iPad apps this week.

Theres a note-taking and task management app, which we liked. We also reviewed , an iOS game. (There's also a of that latter, but we best not mention that in this iOS section).

We reported on the new (and its updated iPhone counterpart), though we remain disappointed that developer Agile Tortoise didnt make Its getting awfully Drafty in here! the companys tagline.

We went handsor probably fingerson with , and with the new

Other apps we reviewed included for iPad, , and (no relation to yours truly). And we covered significant updates to apps like and (at our sister site ) .

We love many Apple products, so we also looked at a Macload of Mac apps this week. Among them were Mac Gems like the keyboard launcher , the folder finder , and screencasting tool . We also looked atand listened to, which turns your saved Instapaper articles into podcasts. For extra fun, try feeding those podcasts back into Mountain Lions dictation feature and see what you get.

This week also saw the release of .

AT&T says its sticking by its decision to allow only Mobile Share customers to . We spoke with several about their plans in light of recent changes at the microblogging company. The ever-helpful iTunes Guy offered up some , but Ill bet at least one is new to you. For example, did you know that you can avoid some iTunes headaches by drinking heavily before using the app?

And finally, because no one convinced us not to, this week we also recorded another episode of the . Were sorry.