A slow week in the world of Maclandia. No revolutions, no one overthrown, no magical new devices or apps that promise to change your life. Could it be the calm before the storm? Well, there is WWDC on the horizon, which always promises to shake things up, and there was Final Cut Pro X, which had the video editing cognoscenti crying with joy, but what else happened in the last seven? Join us in finding out.


Features:

- 50 Reasons We Love Apple - How do we love, thee? Let us count the ways. Oh sure, there's black mock turtle necks and OS X and plenty of classics in the list. Give yourself a nice juicy walk down memory lane with this greatest hits collection.

- 5 Reasons We, Um, Don't Love Apple - No one's perfect and Apple's had its share of missteps and misfires. Top on our list from our first iPod are those crummy white earbuds. Seriously, replacing a piece of equipment shouldn't be virtually mandatory from Day One. Apple's good at listening to customer complaints, but they seem a little tone deaf on this one.



Reviews:

- First Look: Adobe Nav for Photoshop for the iPad - Adobe, while still incapable of making a truly working mobile Flash, has sincerely worked magic with their Touch SDK. Three apps that work in tandem with Photoshop CS5, letting you edit on the fly -- and we're talking serious edits here -- and that's just in their first go around. Adobe Nav is top of the heap, and we've got a good first look at this baby.

- App Showdown: Bill Reminders - Most everyone hates paying bills. Sure, we recognize if you want something nice -- like, say, electricity or access to the internets -- you have to pay for it. But that still doesn't make shelling out a wad of cash to Ralph De La Vega any more pleasant. Two bill reminder apps try to make sure you don't forget. One scoops the check, but which one?



How-Tos:

- 5 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your AirPort Extreme - Apple's known for some sexy products that kick serious butt without breaking a sweat. And while the iMac line and the iOS devices hog all the glory, AirPort Extreme packs a wallop without much fanfare. Here's five slick features you may not have known about that are gonna knock your socks off.

- 10 Tips For Taking Better Photos With Your iPhone - Mobile phones are killing the camera market. Sure, everyone buys one big nice camera for special events, but for your day to day shots, it's straight to your iPhone. But not everyone's Ansel Adams with an iOS device. Want 10 quick pieces of advice to snagging the awesome with your camera? Sure you do.



News:

Rather a slow week this one with only a few releases of note and nothing that smacked of a zeitgeisty tang, but sure there was still news...for instance, while we love the idea of an authorized Steve Jobs biography, we're not in love with the title iSteve, which -- honestly -- makes some of us cringe...and when two console gaming PR execs got snatched up by Apple, the internet briefly exploded into speculation before realizing it was kind of a non-story...though if we had to pick an overarching theme for the week, we'd opt for death, with Cisco giving Flip Video the big ax this week...then Flock, the social browser, finally saw the writing on the wall, and shifted all their attention and staff to their new parent, Zynga...and reports came back that Apple hasn't released the iPhone 5 production roadmap to its parts suppliers, almost certainly a stake to the heart of rumors we'll be seeing a new iPhone in two months...then more suppliers chimed in, killing our dream of an iPad 3 sometime later this year...meanwhile, 4th and Battery's Unpleasant Horse, the troubled game, showed up just long enough in New Zealand to spark discussions before it was keelhauled.

Okay, okay, it wasn't all death and doom and destruction. For starters, Adobe dropped a mid-cycle refresh on us with Creative Suite 5.5 that brought subscriptions plus their Touch SDK giving you sweet app loving to communicate your photoshopping back to your desktop...gamemaker Valve was active this week, tweaking our expectations with some new concept art for Portal 2...this was followed by their final installment in some seriously cool Portal 2 teaser ads in the form of "Investment" videos...then Valve's countdown clock teaser kept the internets riveted, with speculation rampant, only to subtly tweak all our expectations...biggest release news of the week wasn't iOS 4.3.2 which was really just a bug killer/jailbreak thwarter...no, the biggest release news of the week was definitely Apple's announcement of a completely rebuilt Final Cut Pro X...and what good is an announcement without a sneak peek that had everyone drooling majorly?