Microsoft ready to sell in the Apple Mac App Store?
Although it would seem at first to make for strange bedfellows, the rumor that Microsoft is preparing to sell software in the Apple Mac App Store makes a great deal of sense for everyone involved. The...
View ArticleApple takes aim at Florida pirate
Peruse the computer section of Craigslist in just about any city and you will find them — software pirates selling hand-lettered disks out of their parents’ basements or grubby walkups. With multiple...
View ArticleMac App Store: The end of boxed software
For better and worse, there has never been a brick n’ mortar retail software trade in the Apple mobile space. From day one, iPhone, iPod touch and iPad has been digital only. Now, the mothership is...
View ArticleFinal Cut Pro is ‘a jaw-dropper’
Last Fall Steve Jobs promised that the long overdue Final Cut update would blow people away and that users should be patient and hang in there. Now, Apple’s given a select group of post production...
View ArticleBack to School math doesn’t add
Last year’s student-teacher-family educational promotion put up to a quarter pound (i.e. iPod touch precooked weight) of stuff in our hands and Apple’s 2011 come on is for a little plastic card...
View ArticleApple: B2B volume software pricing soon
Are you a developer selling software on the Mac App Store? Then you need to hustle over to Apple’s developer site and check out changes coming to the company’s revolutionary digital-only desktop app...
View ArticleSalesforce CEO gave Jobs ‘App Store’ trademark
Apple has been on the receiving of geek grief and angst for suing competitors over use of its App Store trademark. Whereas the technorati argue the term should be viewed as generic and ubiquitous, they...
View ArticleGoing on a Lion hunt just got easier
Most apps are Lion compatible. However, which ones also take advantage of the new features — Fullscreen, Resume, Versions, etc. — in Apple’s newest feline-flavored operating system release? Up until...
View ArticleAdobe updates Elements apps
Though the new versions of Photoshop Elements and Premier Elements aren’t yet on the Mac App Store, the previous version is the number seven top grossing app, which is pretty good for a year-plus-old...
View ArticleBack to Mac: iOS 5 style notifications with Growl
For years, quite literally, notifications on the iPhone were poorly implemented, disruptive and something of an embarrassment. That changed with the release of iOS 5 and now a clever lad has figured...
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