The original prediction had it that Apple’s brand spanking new Mac App Store would arrive at Noon Eastern Thursday, but it went live hours earlier, in sync with the arrival of the Mac OS 10.6.6 update. I assume, for the moment, that most of you who are using Snow Leopard did see signs of that […]

The search to discover secrets about Apple’s latest and greatest gadgets has reached a fever pitch. You almost think some people are examining the trash bins in the vicinity of the Apple campus in Cupertino, CA for telltale evidence of what they’re working on. Of course, physical documents would be shredded as a matter of […]

All right, so we all know that Mac OS X Lion is going to incorporate some stuff from the iOS, but those few features are mostly special effects, rather than actual productive tools. Chief among the additions are Mission Control, a single window showing open apps and comments, Launchpad, which mimics the icon display on […]

There was plenty of anticipation ahead of Apple’s recent all-too-brief demonstration of some of the sexier features for 10.7 Lion. After the media assumed Apple was largely focusing on the iOS, to the detriment of the Mac OS, you had to wonder whether we’d see any compelling upgrades for Apple’s venerable product in the near […]