Tagged ‘Mac app store’

Apple’s new back to school promo: Buy a Mac get £65 to spend on the Mac App Store

June 16, 2011 3:02 pm by Nick Marshall

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: app store, Apple, back to school, gift card, iBookstore, iTunes, Mac app store

Starting today and running until September 20, Apple will offer students a £65 gift card to use on the Mac App Store, the App Store, the iTunes Store or the iBookstore with the purchase of a new Mac. As usual, the £65 gift card is in combination to the instant savings offered to students ranging from £122 to £315, depending on model.

Unlike past years where Apple offered a free iPod touch (valued at £193) with the purchase of a new Mac, this year it’s all about apps. Apple has seen the app gold rush phenomenon sweep the globe on iOS and more recently on the Mac. The switch from iPod to gift card is a smart play for Apple, but what about the students?

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Amazon Mac App Store rival set to rile Apple

May 27, 2011 10:58 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: Amazon, Mac app store, Mac Download Store, Mac OS X Lion

Amazon has revealed another move likely to irritate Apple. After joining Microsoft in the battle to get Apple’s app store trademark tossed out, it’s now opened a Mac App Store rival which it has uncontentiously named the Mac Download Store. Like the Amazon Android AppStore, the Mac Download Store is a US-only deal right now but could well appeal to developers who don’t fancy jumping through Apple’s hoops.

The Amazon Mac Download Store has already scored one big acquistion the Mac App Store has failed to stock so far – Microsoft Office for Mac 2011. That said it may struggle against the convenience of the Mac App Store which is integrated effectively in Mac OS X Snow Leopard and bound to be even more throughly catered for in Mac OS X Lion. We still reckon Cupertino won’t be too thrilled with Amazon’s cheek.

Out now | £varies (US-only) | Amazon

Windows 8 App Store leaks: Microsoft mimics the Mac App Store

April 12, 2011 10:25 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: app store, Apple, Mac app store, Microsoft, Windows 8

A Windows 8 App Store has long been in the works and now leaks at Chinese site cnBeta have given us another look at what Microsoft has in store…

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Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac outed

February 16, 2011 1:08 pm by Jennifer Allan

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: Apple, Mac, Mac app store, Microsoft, Windows Phone 7

The Windows Phone 7 Connector app is now available in the Mac App Store. It’s an app that lets you hook up and sync your Windows Phone 7 device on a Mac.It’s also compatible with Zune HD. The beta version popped up in October, but now this is the full, ready to go, dusted off finished product.

It works in a similar way to media syncing with BlackBerry Desktop Manager on Mac. It pulls in your iTunes content and playlists, and then moves everything on the phone back in your OS X libraries.

Out now | Free | Mac App Store

Best Mac apps of the month: February 2011

February 4, 2011 11:15 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: best Mac Apps, braid, Courier, djay, Mac app store, Trillian, Ulysses

It’s best Mac apps of the month time and while February is the shortest month, we’re not skimping on apps.

In this month’s installment we’ve got the easiest way to fling fistfuls of files online, a brilliant app for writing long documents and doing project work, the best Mac instant messenger programme we’ve used, iTunes given a DJ-centric overhaul and a game which will baffle your brain but keep you addicted…

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Microsoft Office hitting Mac App Store?

January 28, 2011 2:04 pm by Jennifer Allan

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: Apple, Mac app store, micorosft, office

Microsoft are open to the idea of putting Microsoft Office on the Mac App Store. While Microsoft has not decided whether it will be going ahead with putting Office on the Mac App Store, the company also said it i committed to getting Microsoft Office on as many platforms as possible.

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iTunes App Store hits Twitter: what’s Apple up to?

January 25, 2011 9:22 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Apps & Software Tags: Apple, iTunes App Store, Mac app store, Twitter

The iTunes App Store has arrived on…Twitter. Apple has had official iTunes Twitter accounts for a while but now the 10bn selling sergeant of Apple’s App army has signed on. It’s already racked up over 72,000 followers at time of writing…

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Best Mac apps

January 21, 2011 2:29 pm by Ben Sillis

Categories: Top 10s & Lists Tags: Apple, Mac, Mac app store, top 5

Want the best Mac apps to install on your OS X machine? Right this way then please: we’ve been scouring the stuffed shelves of the brand new Mac App Store, and frankly there’s so much in there already “hypermarket” might be a better word to use than “store”. See our essential picks in the list to the right of the full post.

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