I’ll be honest with you all. I’m not a designer. While I’d like to think I have a somewhat decent eye for pretty pixels, others have said otherwise. Still, I love looking at well designed software and apps. And what better place to do that than Dribbble, a thriving community of UI/UX designers and pump out a ton of awesome looking concepts each and every day. Naturally, browsing this sea of wonderful content needs an app equally as impressive. Meet...

Since day 1, Google’s used the Android Market as the go-to storefront for all things Android. While 3rd party stores have popped up in increasing numbers over the last couple of years, Google’s own store has remained the standard. And today that standard is undergoing a somewhat surprising re-branding. From here on out the Android Market will now be known as the “Google Play Store” — yes, it’s terrible. The idea behind the re-branding...

Tired of hearing your parent, significant other, or spouse hounding on your for spending too much money in the App Store? Well lucky for you, Apple is holding another app download-based contest in which the best app aficionados can score a $10,000 iTunes gift card, according to the Cupertino-based website. This time, all you have to do is be the person who downloads Apple’s 10 billionth app (or, if you don’t want to purchase/download anything, point your...

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...

At one point in time, we’ve all come into possession of a particular file that we didn’t have an appropriate piece of software to open said file. On that same note, Windows users have been able to simply click “search online” to give Windows a chance at clearing things up. I’ve never had particularly good luck with the in-house app searching within Windows, ultimately turning to Google to find the required app. Perhaps on OS X it will be...