TUAW Best of the Week

The weeks fly by faster and faster. Here it is, once again, the weekend. And if you didn't have a chance to spend quite as much quality time here at TUAW as you might have liked, here's your opportunity to peruse our favorite posts of this past week.

TUAW Tip: Create smaller PDF files
Discover the "Compress PDF" option in the Print dialog.

The inside story on Apple Genius training
Secrets of the Genius Bar.

Engadget and ads confirm iPhone on sale June 29
Finally. A specific date.

NYTimes: iPhone SDK at WWDC?
We may yet see an open development environment for the iPhone.

New iPhone Ads: what Mac ads should be
Instead of two guys joshing each other, these ads actually show the product.

Steve Jobs: iPhone runs "Real OS X"
Small, embedded, real.

Speculation: TVPredictions sez RIP AppleTV
Barely three months old--is the Apple TV a failure? TUAW doesn't think so.

Zaprudering the iPhone Commercials: Maps
Yes, "Pacific Catch" is a real restaurant.

Happy 30th Birthday, Apple II
10 PRINT "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"

Students get free iPod nano with every Mac
The deal is back.

TUAW crashes WWDC, invites friends over to party
C'mon and geek out with us.

AT&T tuning EDGE network for iPhone?
Maybe 2.5G won't be so bad?

iTunes: Free Tuesday
There's still time to take advantage of these free items.

Ask TUAW: MacBook Pros, iMovie Export, Shuffle Autofill, Windows Gaming and more
Mat versus TUAW reader questions. Mat wins! (Congrats Mat from all of us!)

"30 Days with Mac OS X"
Reviewer decides that the Mac isn't really his thing.

Found Footage: Just the Internet, on your Phone
A fourth iPhone commercial bows.

Maybe a contract-free iPhone is NOT out of the question
Apple and AT&T drop the "2 Year Activation Required" from the iPhone commercial.

ZFS to be the default file system in Leopard?
Sun technology and a bright future.

MacBook Battery Charger/Conditioner
Charge a backup battery and your MacBook at the same time.

Apple releases Boot Camp 1.3 beta
This was the week of Windows on Mactel hardware. We also saw Parallels 3 debut and VMWare Fusion: Unity.