For several iterations now, OS X’s “About this Mac” panel has been rather Apple-like in that it’s basically endless lists of text. For a company that lives by visual elegance and eye candy, it was odd to say the least. But new leaked images compliments of Softpedia show a much more user friendly, visually dynamic About this Mac section. Initially, you’re presented with two options: Mac OS X Lion and your current hardware. Clicking on one...

Today, January 7th via press release, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced that the freshly launched Mac App Store for OS X has already surpassed 1 million downloads in a mere 24 hours after going live. While it may pale in comparison to other sales figures such as billions downloaded by the iOS App Store, we must remember that the iOS App Store has been around for almost 3 years now. For Apple, breaking 1 million downloads on launch day is a positive signal that the desktop...

Everyone’s favorite pig smashing, bird-slinging game, Angry Birds is officially live in the Mac App Store. Even though it trails the PC version by a few days, somehow I don’t think it will matter in the slightest bit. If you’re new to the Angry Birds chaos, just know that it is awesome and you should buy it. Angry Birds costs £2.99 (~$4.63 USD) and as of writing holds the #1 spot for paid apps. You should probably get this…like right now. Via: ...

If you’ve made a new home with one of the popular services and products including but not limited to iOS devices, OS X-powered computers, and location-based services such as Foursquare, the world is going to end in 2011. McAfee (recently acquired by Intel) released a forecast today naming various popular services and products that while currently low on the threat list, will grow increasingly murky as 2011 trudges on. Of course, coming from an arguably struggling...

Apple isn’t generally the company you see exhibit overlapping qualities. Each product and service has a distinct purpose. This point could of course be argued for the rest of eternity, but for the sake of time and this article, we’ll assume Apple’s products are always unique. With that said, Apple announced tonight in an email sent to OS X developers that the Apple.com/downloads/osx web page will soon be no more. On the same day that the Mac App Store...