Apple has promised that Lion’s coming in July, and by gum if my calendar doesn’t say . Any final preparation you need to ready your Mac for Lion’s unveiling needs to get handled, stat. Your Lion trainer and mine, Chris Breen, shared . He also wrote up a walkthrough for those of you ; Snow Leopard is the end of the road for AppleWorks, so if you don’t want to lose access to your old files after your Lion upgrade, make sure you read through Chris’s advice. We also want to let you AppleWorks devotees know that, not too long ago, Apple released a very cool cellphone that you may not have heard about yet.

The Mac IT Guy wrote up ; if nothing else, we’re certain that Apple’s new operating system is better for your business than an actual wild lion.

In the never-ending saga that is the Final Cut Pro X controversy, Apple , declaring—among other things—that the app will never be able to import Final Cut Pro 7 projects. I wrote and published ’s story on that FAQ by 6:40 a.m. my time, because of my passion for breaking news. Well, that and the fact that I live with three kids under five years old, so I was unsurprisingly awake anyway.

We shared . Personally, all I want is for iTunes to do stuff, beyond music playback, app, music, movie, and book shopping, iPod and iOS device syncing, podcast discovery, and Ping. Okay, I don’t want it to do Ping at all, actually. Speaking of iTunes, we offered some advice on how to keep your music—along with your photos, and the rest of your Mac’s data—.