Apple Releases OS X 10.6.6 and Mac App Store

This is the period we’ve every been inactivity for right? Possible added period “we’ll never forget?” Apple has meet liberated OS X 10.6.6 and along with it the Mac App Store via the Software Update.

The Mac App Store was previewed during Apple’s Back to Mac circumstance and after declared that January 6th would be the start date.

OS X 10.6.6 is 114.8 MB and be sure to backwards up your Mac before installing. Here’s what’s included in 10.6.6:

The Mac App Store, a newborn covering you’ll encounter in the Dock, includes the mass features:

Discover Mac apps: Browse featured apps, crowning charts, and categories, or wager for something specific. Buy and install: Easily purchase apps with your iTunes account. Apps establish in digit travel and are apace acquirable from the Dock. App updates: The Mac App Store keeps road of every your purchased apps and notifies you when liberated updates are available. Additional improvements

For aggregation about the section content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222. Includes every the improvements in the previous 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4 and 10.6.5 updates. Addresses a cropping supply with whatever notation printing in genre tender orientation. Resolves an supply with whatever Macs (that hit in ATI graphics card) in which the mouse indicator shitting could become changeable if an outside DVI display is connected.

Here’s the Apple Mac Store advise release:

CUPERTINO, Californiaâ€"January 6, 2011â€"Apple® today declared that the Mac® App Storeâ„  is now open for business with more than 1,000 liberated and paying apps. The Mac App Store brings the revolutionary App Store undergo to the Mac, so you crapper encounter enthusiastic newborn apps, acquire them using your iTunes® account, download and establish them in meet digit step. The Mac App Store is acquirable for Snow Leopard® users through Software Update as part of Mac OS® X v10.6.6.

“With more than 1,000 apps, the Mac App Store is off to a enthusiastic start,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We think users are feat to love this original newborn way to conceive and acquire their selection apps.”

The Mac App Store offers apps in Education, Games, Graphics & Design, Lifestyle, Productivity, Utilities and other categories. Users crapper feeding newborn and worthy apps, encounter conceive what’s hot, wager body favorites, wager categories and look up crowning charts for paying and liberated apps, as substantially as individual ratings and reviews.

Entirely newborn apps, as substantially as underway Mac favorites, are acquirable from developers much as Autodesk, Ancestry.com and Boinx. iPhoto®, iMovie® and GarageBand® apps from Apple’s favourite iLife® ‘11 flat are acquirable severally in the Mac App Store for $14.99 each, and Pages®, Keynote® and Numbers® apps from iWork® are acquirable for $19.99 each. Aperture® 3, Apple’s powerful picture editing and direction software, is acquirable for $79.99.

“We’re delighted to alter our professional-grade paint and art app, Autodesk SketchBook Pro, to the Mac App Store on its prototypal period of launch,” said Carl Bass, Autodesk’s CEO. “We’ve seen tremendous success on the Mac, iPhone and iPad with binary apps. We’re excited to substance SketchBook Pro on the Mac App Store so artists crapper easily create everything from hurried sketches to high-quality graphics correct on their Macs.”

“By substance the Ancestry.com Family histrion Maker app on the Mac App Store, we’re making it even easier for people to conceive and admittance their kinsfolk history,” said Tim Sullivan, Ancestry.com’s CEO. “The Mac App Store will drive a newborn procreation of conception on the Mac platform.”

“We’re thrilled to hit our award-winning animation, video creation and photography code acquirable on the newborn Mac App Store,” said jazzman Breidenbach, Boinx Software’s CEO. “The Mac App Store makes it easier than ever for consumers to admittance every the original code designed for the Mac.”

Let us undergo how the OS X 10.6.6 update works for you and the Mac App Store!

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