Looking at the success of App Store for their iOS devices, Apple has finally announced Mac App Store for OS X. The basic idea of the Mac App Store is that it will provide a single place to buy your all apps. It will have a lots of features just like what the hugely successful App Store for iOS devices offers.
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FaceTime comes to OS X – Download FaceTime for Mac Beta
We had been hearing rumors since a long time that Apple will bring FaceTime video calling to almost every device they make and today in their “Back to Mac” event Apple has announced FaceTime for OS X. That raises the FaceTime compatible devices count to 3 – iPhone, iPod Touch and Macs. Hopefully, next will be iPad 2.
Zune software is NOT coming to the Mac–A sync software will be
Microsoft has recently launched Windows Phone 7 along with many devices and with that they have also updated Zune PC software with support for Windows Phone 7. With this new Zune software, PC users would transfer their music, photos and videos to their phones. But what about Mac users? If they want to buy a Windows Phone 7 device then they would not have any Zune software for their Mac OS. Microsoft may release a Windows Phone sync solution for Mac but this will not be like the Zune software for PC. This sync solution will just provide a way for Mac users to transfer their music, photos and video to their phones.
Apple seeds fourth beta of Mac OS X 10.6.5 to developers
Continuing their weekly releases of Mac OS X 10.6.5 builds, Apple released the fourth beta of Mac OS X 10.6.5 to developers on Thursday. The build number of this release is 10H535 and those familiar with this build say that Apple has asked developers to focus on testing all the same six areas which were mentioned in last week’s release which are: 3D Graphics, iCal, Mail, QuickTime, Time Machine, and USB Devices.
Apple seeds second build of Mac OS X 10.6.5 to Developers
About a week ago Apple seeded the first developers build of Mac OS X 10.6.5 with the build number 10H525 and yesterday they have seeded the second build OS X 10.6.5 to developers build 10H529. The new build resolves the two known issues of the previous build and no new issues are listed.
Apple Distributes first Mac OS X 10.6.5 build to Developers
Apple has started distributing the first developer build of Mac OS X 10.6.5 since Friday night. This is the fifth release of company’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system and is officially labeled as Build 10H525. This build follows Mac OS X 10.6.4 which was made public on June 15th just after WWDC.
Axon Logic Haptic Tablet can run Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
Microsoft will release Office 2011 for Mac in October. Pricing and Editions announced
Microsoft launched their latest Office suite for Windows just a few months ago. Now Office 2011 for Mac is slated to be released in October. Today, Microsoft announced launch details about Office 2011 for Mac. It will ship to more than 100 countries around the world in two editions available for purchase at retail stores – Office for Mac Home and Student 2011 and Office for Mac Home and Business 2011.
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.6.2 update, fixes Guest account data deletion bug and much more
Apple has rolled out Mac OS X 10.6.2 update. Apple regards this update as a release, that focuses on security, compatibility and stability aspects. Mac OS X 10.6.2 is the second update to be rolled out since the launch of Snow Leopard, three months back. Mac OS X 10.6.2 fixes the Guest Account Bug, which deleted user’s data when the user logged in as a Guest. It also brings an end to Intel Atom support which is bad news for hackintosh netbooks who want to upgrade to 10.6.2. The second Mac OS X update is said to contain fixes for more than 30 bugs. Apple recommends all the Mac OS X users to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.6.2.
iDashboard 1.0 released: A multipage dashboard for iPhone
Windows 7 and Mac OS X users enjoy the experience of having Widgets on their desktop. This is one option which iPhone users did not have up till now. WyndWarrior has released iDashboard 1.0 for iPhone. Think of iDashboard as an iPhone utility, which provides widget functionality similar to the one that Mac OS X offers for the desktop users. iDashboard contains useful widgets such as weather widget, calendar and much more.