Last Christmas, Mac Heist had the Mac Giving Tree with many apps that were given on Christmas Day. This year, MacStories has a huge Apps Tree with 450 Application licenses for Christmas. There are numerous Mac and iPhone applications like 1Password, MailPlane, CSSEdit, FontCase and ExpanDrive. To get your favorite application, just visit this page and follow the instructions…
MacStories will give the licenses on 22nd of December. So stay tuned…
Apple’s next generation OS finally starts shipping. Snow Leopard is available for $29 for Leopard users as an upgrade. The family-pack comes for $49 (5-user). If you are not a Leopard user or use an OS older than Leopard, then you have to get the Snow Leopard box set for $169. However, there was an article on Lifehacker blog about installing the $29 version on Tiger. Link is here. Snow Leopard only workes on Intel macs so Power PC users will have to upgrade their macs.
Amazon is giving Snow Leopard for $25 with Free Shipping. So, that’s the greatest deal on the internet. Buy Snow Leopard for $25 from Amazon. Buy Snow Leopard Family Pack. Get Box set.
Rumors about the MacBook tablet had started originating quite a long time back. But the recent evidance of Apple’s order to a Chinese company for 10 inch touch panels made sense to the rumors. However, Apple has just released the MacBook tablet ! Its on the Apple Website. The MacBook Tablet is now Shipping and can be purchased via the Online store and will be coming to Apple Stores soon!
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According to Apple Insider, the upcoming OS by Apple - Mac OS X Snow Leopard, will be location-aware just as the iPhone. It will use WiFi networks to triangulate the position of the user to allow geo-tagging and other location based services like updating the twitter location.
Apple Insider says:
People familiar with the latest pre-release distributions of the next-gen OS say the software now includes the CoreLocation framework previously available via the iPhone SDK, which will allow Mac applications to identify the current latitude and longitude of the Macs on which they’re running.
Since Macs don’t include GPS technology like the iPhone 3G, CoreLocation will utilize a Mac’s existing networking hardware to triangulate the system’s location in a manner similar to the way the original iPhone was able to use the technology to emulate a true global positioning signal.
Back in CES 2009, ASUS had unveiled a new Eee keyboard with a touch panel in the place of the numeric pad, which allows users to browse through media, organizer, calendar and other information. Here’s a picture:
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