Apple’s senior vice president of industrial design, Jonathan Ive, can now demand that his employees and everyone else address him as “Sir.” He’s been made a Knight Commander of the British Empire for his design work at Apple. Although Ive worked at Apple for several years, the arrival of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1995 launched an industrial design revolution at the company that has dramatically influenced products and design aesthetics worldwide.

If you make excessive use of outlines, as Jeff Carlson does, you’ll appreciate the ability to build and edit them on the iPad. It’s often a more convenient method of jotting thoughts that can be expanded later on the Mac without having to pull out your laptop or wait until you’re back at your desk. In this review for Macworld, he touches on the advantages and depths of OmniOutliner for iPad, as well as a few surprising limitations.

In the future, a book may be the last thing you’ll visit the library to find. NPR offers a piece about the Maker Station, a 50-foot trailer parked outside a public library, where people can take advantage of creative tools such as 3-D printers and other modern building tools.

You’re accustomed to watching video and listening to music on an iPad or other iOS device, but did you know that it can listen too? Some apps take advantage of the microphone in clever ways.

Hard to believe, looking at the modern Web, that playing video clips on a computer was once reserved for the jetpack-wearing future. But then, on 2 December 1991, Apple released QuickTime 1.0. Twenty years on, QuickTime can barely remember when it was a much smaller window.

We’re taking the next email issue of TidBITS off to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, although we’ll continue to post articles and links on our Web site. The next email issue will be published on 28 November 2011.

With the new version of the Apple Store app for iOS, you can walk into a retail store, scan the barcode of a product, purchase it, and walk out without any other human intervention. Other in-stock items can be ordered in the app and picked up at a store.

If you’re embarking on the task of writing a 50,000 word novel during the month of November — also known as National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo — Literature & Latte offers a special NaNoWriMo 2011 trial version of its Scrivener writing software.

iMovie ’11 can smoothly import video from camcorders, but with so many digital still cameras now shooting video as well, why doesn't the application recognize those clips, too? Over at Macworld, Jeff Carlson reveals how to bypass iPhoto and import movies directly into iMovie.

Auto Save is a great feature of Mac OS X Lion, but part of its implementation is confusing, especially to new users the feature is supposed to help. If you’re wondering why Save As no longer appears in some applications, read on for details.

MacVoices.tv host Chuck Joiner sat down with Jeff Carlson (in the second part of a two-part interview) to talk about his latest print book, “Photoshop Elements 10 for Windows and Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide.” Learn about what’s new in the software, and about the challenges of tailoring books for a changing audience of digital photo enthusiasts. (An audio-only version of the interview is also available via a link on the MacVoices.tv page.)

In this first part of a two-part interview with Chuck Joiner, Jeff Carlson talks about what’s new in iOS 5 for iPad users and what readers of his new ebook “Meet the iPad & iOS 5” can expect to learn. (The ebook recently hit number 3 on the iBookstore’s list of Top Paid titles, briefly besting Nicholas Sparks’s latest!) An audio-only version of the interview is also available via a link on the MacVoices.tv page.