We're all a-flutter, all a-tingle, all ready for what tomorrow morning will bring when Steve Jobs kicks things off at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference. Will he stun us with the iPhone 5 against all expectations? Or will it be all iOS 5 all the time, with glimpses of what the upcoming hardware can do? What about refreshes of other existing lines? We know he's gonna talk iCloud, Lion, and our favorite mobile operating system, but what else? What else? we cry!
And, yes, of course, we didn't let the grass grow under our feet, so just in case in all the WWDC hype, ya missed it, here's this week's bag o'goodies.
Features:
- Mac Apps That Work Perfectly With Their iOS Counterparts - As we begin our foray into the post-PC world, it's important to remember that we still have to have our portable apps and our desktops play nice for the duration. Here's a handful of apps that not only reside on your iOS device, but swing wild and free in your MacBook and iMac, and make the sweetest of music with their portable counterparts.
- 9 Best Indie Mac Games You Have to Play - It doesn't take an app studio like Zynga to put something together that's going to turn quite a few heads, and some of our favorite breakout games have been the work of inspired, independent geniuses who bring it. Not every time, but often enough that we keep coming back for more and more and more. Here's 9 we found that you just gotta play.
Reviews:
- May's Highest Rated Reviews - End of the month brings us nothing more nor less than our guns a'blazin best of wrap up where we stack all our reviews up against each other and see who came out on top. It's like a bite sized run down of our favorite things of the month, plus this is the month we finally answered the epic backpack versus messenger bag throw down and how could you miss something that good?
- App Showdown: Weather Apps - We're not going to lie to you: our weather's been as crazy as yours and yours might even have been crazier than that. But of course there's no better way to stay up to the minute, heck up to the very second with the weather than with an iOS device in your pocket or messenger bag (see what we did there?). Only problem? There's somewhere in the range, officially, of a bazillion weather apps in the App Store. So what's a kid to do?
How-Tos:
- How To Move Your Steam Games To a New Hard Drive - Sure, who doesn't love the awesome Mac gaming with Steam? And upgrading to a new Mac is an awesome idea, but what to do with those downloaded and installed games? Are you really going to have to re-download all those gigs of data -- in this day and age of data caps? Surely you jest, friend, surely you jest. Here's how it's done, no muss, no fuss.
- 9 Features We Want to See in iOS 5 - It's not a traditional how-to, we'll give it that, more of a how-to wishlist we want to see on Apple's desk front and center. Half of these are merely building on the promise of what you've already started, half of these can be done jailbreak style, so it's not that it's not possible, just that Apple hasn't put their shoulders to the grindstone on THIS PARTICULAR LIST. Okay, Jobs, get crackin. Ball's in your court.
