Apple has revealed to developers that it will be shutting down its Downloads page for Mac OS X on Jan. 6, the day of the Mac App Store launch, as it focuses on the Mac App Store as "the best ...

First, make a full backup of your current Mac OS X installation -- preferably a clone ( try SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner). If something goes wrong, or you experience a major incompatibility after ...

I'm quite serious. I think the OSX App Store is a great concept, because it centralizes app updates (they all use the sparkle framework now-a-days anyways) and has sync. That means that when I get ...

What it is: A PDF manager—think iPhoto for PDF, but with superior tagging, and no weakness for mucking about with file locations. Why it’s good: Along with being absurdly fast (our copy was ready to ...

Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion doesn't prevent users from installing software from vendors outside the App Store at all. Users can simply relax the security to allow this. Blaming OS X restrictions is a ...

Paul Mix replies: "It is possible that the execute permissions of the application (both the bundle root and the actual executable) were not copied properly during the transfer." Rick Roe concurs, ...

Apple’s newest OS X cat, Mountain Lion, is finally here, halo-dropped onto the Mac App Store at the last minute by a company that increasingly treats its products as if they were smartphones, teasing ...

OS X developers are reportedly becoming frustrated with the lengthy delay they must endure to have their applications approved for the Mac App Store. Average wait times have increased to 27 days over ...

Apple has revealed that it is giving up development on its iPhoto and Aperture software in favour of new software. The company unveiled a new Photos app at its Worldwide Developer Conference earlier ...