Since Apple first introduced the App Store as part of its assault on the smartphone market, there's been a handful of apps and games which have come up, and never really gone away.
The Mac App Store is still in its infancy when compared to its older brother, the iOS App Store. Opened officially in January 2011, it celebrated its first birthday last month and has been an extremely successful outlet for Apple in those twelve months. The Mac App Store offers digital downloads of software in similar fashion to the iOS application outlet but contains software designed and developed for machines running Mac OS X 10.6.6 and later.
Aside from being a great music player, iTunes is an integral part of an iPhone, iPad and iPod user's digital life. This is all well and good if you're on iOS of course, allowing the most harmonious of synchronization; and as of iOS 5 - wirelessly so - providing your iDevice is Wi-Fi compatible.
Like AirPlay? Now you can use the technology to mirror your entire Mac display onto a television’s screen using an Apple TV! We are huge fans of Apple's implementation of AirPlay with the Apple TV. For those not familiar with the technology, AirPlay allows anyone with an iOS device and an Apple TV to send video, audio or both over the Wi-Fi network and onto a big screen via the little black box of awesome.
One of the built-in features of OS X Lion, and previous versions is the chat application known as iChat which has always been billed as a fully featured instant messaging application which combines text, video and voice chat into one app. iChat has always been a very versatile application offering powerful features supported by the fact that it works with a number of services such as Yahoo and the largest instant messaging community in the United States, AIM.
We love our Macs here at Redmond Pie, and we love the way OS X works. The ease of use blended with subtle power should you desire it makes OS X the best choice in our minds, though that's another argument for a different day.
The Mac isn’t usually known for its gaming prowess, but if you're the lucky owner of a top of the range iMac then you're actually using a machine that would make a pretty awesome gaming computer.
If you're a Firefox user then you now have a new version to download, with the popular browser being updated to version 10.
Roger Rosner demonstrated the beautiful new iBooks 2 application for iPad, which allows users to view and interact with beautifully presented, and highly engaging virtual books, but just where do these books come from? Well, perhaps unsurprisingly, there is an app for that.
Whilst our iOS devices provide a novel way of playing music through the stereo, the rigmarole of getting up and traipsing towards it to skip those guilty Britney tracks can get pretty darn annoying; after all, we’re far too technologically advanced to be participating in such nonsense.
