Weekly Wrap: New Mac reviews, email advice, and Surface thoughts

23.06.2012
This week, Microsoft unveiled its potential iPad competitor, we put several new Macs to the test, and we offered some advice on no longer using email for everything. Let's dive in!

We tested . We reviewed , or Reti-no's, as I call them. We weighed in on , which you might say are . (No? OK.) And we found that . Which, ironically enough for a computer called "Pro," is in fact a "con."

Never content merely to write about the topics we cover, we , too.

is a time for celebrating great Mac apps. Some of us also dress up in costumes, but don't feel obligated to go that far. Instead, take some time to appreciate gems like:

We offered up (shorter version: Email was invented; Nigerian princes started using it). We'd advise that you can . At the same time, though, there are --especially if that email is from a Nigerian prince offering you millions of dollars.

Speaking of email, if you'd rather use it than old-fashioned faxing when you need to send signed forms off to other parties, don't miss our video guide to .

As always, we reviewed numerous iOS apps this week: is a a charming flight simulator, is a multimedia educator, is a mental stimulator, can serve as a data curator, makes your great iPhone greater, and ... well, it features LeVar Burton.

Want to run multiple full-screen apps at once on your Lion Mac? Wondering what Microsoft's upcoming Surface tablet means for the iPad?

If you're suffering from problems like a missing Send button in Mail, unwanted games in Draw Something, or a number pad that won't work right, , and he doesn't charge a thing. Nor does Ted Landau, who offers advice on dealing with .