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Apple announced today the release of a developer build of the next major version of the Mac operating system, Mountain Lion. The build is available to Mac Developer Program members starting today and will be released in the Mac App Store late this summer.

Apple states that Mountain Lion contains over 100 new features and introduces several new apps and features to the Mac that already exist in iOS for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Mountain Lion will include versions of the Messages, Reminders, Notes, and Game Center apps originally available in iOS. Mountain Lion will also include deeper integration with iCloud for email, contacts, calendar, and document synchronization, a Notification Center feature to centralize alerts, and Twitter integration.

The Messages application in Mountain Lion will operate like its iOS counterpart, allowing users to send text messages, pictures, and videos quickly to other Macs and iOS devices. Messages on the Mac will replace iChat and a beta version is available for download here (this beta requires Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3).

Notification Center on the Mac will provide easy access to alerts from Mail, Calendar, Messages and other standard Apple apps plus third-party apps. Also coming to the Mac in Mountain Lion is AirPlay Mirroring for streaming of video from a Mac to an HD TV through Apple TV.

Also coming to Mountain Lion is a new security feature called GateKeeper, which offers users more security options when it comes to downloading and installing applications. GateKeeper’s settings can allow apps to be installed from any source or restrict app installation to those obtained from the Mac App Store only.

Apple has created a demo video to preview many of the new features in Mountain Lion, which can be viewed on the company’s site here.

According to Pocket-Lint, Mountain Lion will be available only through the Mac App Store with no option to purchase a DVD or USB thumb drive. Mac OS Lion was originally released in the Mac App Store only last year, though Apple also offered the operating system for purchase on a USB thumb drive shortly after its release.

If the release of this build felt a bit sudden to you, you’re not alone. Instead of previewing Mountain Lion at a press event or conference as Apple has done in the past, the company instead chose a more individualized approach, using private briefings to announce and share information about Mountain Lion to selected members of the press. John Gruber described his experience with this new approach at Daring Fireball as well as his first impressions of Mountain Lion.

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  OS X Lion is the next major release of OS X, the world’s most advanced desktop operating system. It includes over 250 new features that will transform how you interact with your Mac.  Tap, swipe,...

If you’re in marketing or website design and frequently need to find the exact value for a color on the web or in a digital document, Sofmatic’s new Pick application for the Mac is a great choice at the best price ever: free.

Once opened, Pick resides in the menu bar on your Mac and can be activated with a click or a hotkey combination. A virtual loupe lets you home in the color you’d like to identify and left-clicking with your mouse will copy the revealed value to your clipboard for pasting elsewhere. You can choose from several color formats to suit your needs.

Pick is a lightweight application that weighs in at just half a megabyte. It debuted in the Mac App Store earlier this month and requires Mac OS 10.6 or higher and a 64-bit processor.

(For you Mac OS experts out there, yes, Mac OS X includes a color picker app out-of-the-box called DigitalColor Meter. While it offers the same basic functionality and doesn’t require a trip to the Mac App Store to get, its interface isn’t quite as slick and it isn’t as easy to invoke without a hotkey combination or menu bar shortcut.)

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  Softmatic® Pick™ is a handy little color picker with a loupe. It sits in the status bar on top of your screen and is invoked with a hotkey. Using Pick is simple: You launch the loupe with...

Billed as a reinvention of the textbook, Apple announced iBooks 2 today, as well as a new textbook creation Mac application, and a new iTunes U iOS app at a special media event in New York City’s Guggenheim Museum.

The updated iBooks app offers more interactive elements to enhance textbooks well beyond their paper counterparts. An on-stage demo highlighted the multimedia features of iBooks 2 using a biology textbook, showcasing a video introduction, animated 3D models of cells, access to the glossary simply by tapping on a word, and comprehensive searching capabilities. Also shown was the ability to highlight text and add notes, which can be turned into digital index cards for studying.

A new Textbooks category is now available in iBookstore where high school textbooks will be available for $14.99 or less to start. Apple has partnered with major publishers Pearson, McGraw-Hill and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, who have made several textbooks used by millions of students across the country available today in iBookstore with more coming soon.

iBooks 2.0 is available now in the App Store.

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  iBooks is an amazing way to download and read books. iBooks includes the iBookstore, where you can download the latest bestselling books or your favorite classics – day or night. Browse your...

Apple also announced a new Mac application today to create the interactive ebooks for iBooks 2. iBooks Author bears a strong resemblance to Apple’s Pages and Keynote applications, offering a WYSIWYG interface with drag-and-drop editing to add multimedia elements. iBooks Author also features a live preview function to display a work-in-progress on a connected iPad.

iBooks Author is a free app and is available today in the Mac App Store.

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  Now anyone can create stunning iBooks textbooks, cookbooks, history books, picture books, and more for iPad. All you need is an idea and a Mac. Start with one of the Apple-designed templates that...

Apple also announced a new iTunes U iOS app that will offer direct access to content from universities around the world, storing courses on a bookshelf interface similar to iBooks. The iTunes U catalog will offer entire courses, with videos, audio files, transcripts, and supplemental material available from the iTunes Store, App Store, or iBookstore.

iTunes U is free and available in the App Store now.

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  The iTunes U app gives you access to complete courses from leading universities and other schools — plus the world’s largest digital catalog of free education content — right on your iPad,...

There are over 500,000 apps available for the iPhone and iPad in the App Store today and thousands of those debuted in the App Store this year. It can be overwhelming to stay on top of what’s new in the App Store (though our What’s New list can always help, of course) and we wanted to highlight the top new apps that caught our attention in 2011.

The popularity of Twitter, the micro-blogging social networking service, has exploded recently and there’s no shortage of Twitter apps in the App Store. Although Twitter has made several changes to its own official (and free) iOS app this year, Tweetbot by developer Tapbots continues to be one of the more popular alternatives. Tweetbot debuted to much acclaim in April and has an average rating of 4.5 stars in the App Store at the time of this post and it’s been a regular in the Top 200 Paid Social Networking iPhone apps.

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  Tweetbot — A Twitter Client...

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  Tweetbot is a full-featured iPhone (and iPod touch) Twitter client with a lot of personality. Whether it’s the meticulously-crafted interface, sounds & animation, or features like multiple...

To appease aspiring DJs without the turntables and equipment to go pro, algoriddim released its djay app for the iPhone and iPod touch this year, complementing a version that had debuted in late 2010 for the iPad only. djay essentially turns your iPhone or iPod touch into a portable DJ system so you can become the life of the party at the drop of a hat.

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  ★ Now at an unbelievable price - LIMITED TIME OFFER! Get the hottest party app and start spinning your own iPod music today! ★ ★ iPhone App of the Year 2011 Runner-Up in Japan ★ ☆ Fully...

Flipboard is another developer that brought a winning app previously only available for the iPad to the iPhone and iPod touch. Flipboard is a personalized social magazine app that compiles articles, images and videos from your Twitter and Facebook feeds and other sources you select. A universal version that added compatibility for the iPhone debuted just a few weeks ago and it’s proving to be just as popular on the iPhone as it is on the iPad.

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  Named Apple's iPad App of the year and one of TIME's Top 50 Innovations, Flipboard creates a personalized magazine out of everything being shared with you. Flip through your Facebook newsfeed, tweets...

If you’re making New Year’s resolutions to get in shape, you may want to check out the official P90X app that hit the App Store in November. P90X is a home exercise program that’s been around for several years and used by millions around the world. The app offers the popular program’s workouts in a format that’s easy to use on the iPhone.

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  P90X® has evolved. The breakthrough workout program that revolutionized home fitness now has an app that lets you Bring It!® on your iPhone®, so you can get even more amazing results—and work...

Though it’s been a while since I played the piano after years of lessons as a kid, an iPad app that debuted in September got me excited to get back on that hard, unforgiving bench to try it out again. Tonara is a sheet music display app that can actually hear what you’re playing and automatically turn to the next page, avoiding the need to free up a hand to make the transition. How cool is that? Tonara is free and has a in-app library of sheet music that can be purchased.

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  With Tonara, turning pages is a thing of the past. Tonara, voted "App Of The Week" in China, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, is the next generation sheet music application. It...

Even though you’d think it’s a mundane topic, knowing the weather forecast is critical for iPhone users if the number of weather apps in the App Store is any indication. Unfortunately, this glut makes it hard for developers to stand out but ITWC Association managed it earlier this year with the release of Fahrenheit, an app that uses push notifications to show the current temperature right on your home screen through a badge on the app’s icon. (There’s a Celsius version as well.)

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  App Store Rewind: Apple's Top Weather Apps of 2011 One weather app for all your iPhone, iPod and iPad devices! The temperature on your Home Screen icon, Notification Center and Lock Screen. It...

Games

We defer to the experts at our sister site, TouchArcade, for recommendations in this area since they live and breathe iOS games. This year, TouchArcade selected Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery by Capybara Games as the 2011 Game of the Year. The first runner up was Chillingo’s Anomaly Warzone Earth and honorable mentions included Infinity Blade II, Mage Gauntlet, and SpellTower. You can read the full Game of the Year article over at TouchArcade here and even hear our editors discuss these selections in their podcast here.

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  Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP was chosen as the iPad Game of the Year Runner-Up in App Store Rewind 2011! *****UNIVERSAL VERSION. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is an...

I consider myself a casual gamer, dabbling in some Xbox 360 games here and there but spending most of my time playing games on my iPhone and iPad. In particular, I love shooting games and just about anything involving killing zombies and I’ve also found myself sucked into easy-to-play games with fun achievements and special in-game equipment to unlock. Given all of this, a couple of games stood out to me this year: Zombieville USA 2 and Jetpack Joyride.

Zombieville USA 2 by Mika Mobile is a cute zombie shooter with a ton of weapons, skills, and characters to choose from. It also has a great co-op mode where you can pair up with a partner to kill zombies galore over Bluetooth or through Game Center. You can read a full review of the game at TouchArcade here.

Jetpack Joyride by Halfbrick Studios (those brilliant folks who also made Fruit Ninja) is incredibly straightforward to play with a simple tap mechanic to make the main character, Barry Steakfries, jump. It may not sound like much but it’s absorbing and easy to play in short bursts and there are a ton of achievements that will compel you to jump through hoops in order to earn them. You can read a full review of Jetpack Joyride at TouchArcade here.

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  The definitive zombie shooter returns, reborn with stunning new graphics, gameplay and more! Brought to you by the creators of Battleheart, OMG Pirates!, and the original Zombieville USA - this...

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  You're going for a ride - from the creators of FRUIT NINJA! ** Winner ** - Gamasutra Mobile Game of 2011 - TUAW Best iPhone Game of 2011 - UGO iOS Game of the Year - Game Revolution Best Mobile...

That’s it for our 2011 selections! We here at AppShopper wish everyone a fun and safe New Year’s Eve celebration and a fantastic 2012!

Happy holidays! We here at AppShopper wish everyone a safe, joy-filled holiday season! We plan to spend the Christmas holiday quietly with friends and family and we’ve still got our fingers crossed that we’ll get some snow to make it feel a little more complete.

Apple is also taking a break around the holidays and they’ve let developers know that iTunes Connect, the portal through which developers upload and manage apps in the App Store, will be closed from December 22 through December 29. Since AppShopper gets its information straight from Apple, many of our lists and feeds will show little to no changes during this period as well. So don’t be alarmed – we’re still here and providing you with the latest on app deals and updates but we’re forced to take a little break when Apple does as well.

Apple announced this morning that more than 100 million apps have been downloaded from its Mac App Store. The Mac App store, which debuted less than a year ago, currently offers more than 8,000 applications for Macintosh computers running Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or higher.

In just three years the App Store changed how people get mobile apps, and now the Mac App Store is changing the traditional PC software industry,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “With more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and fastest growing PC software store in the world.”

An Apple PR spokesperson pointed out that this download milestone makes the Mac App Store the #1 PC software channel in the world, exceeding all sales of the shrink wrap software market according to sales information from market research firm NPD.

Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year, is upon us. Whether you prefer to do you shopping in person or online, there are apps that can show you sale items, help you find what you’re looking for and even reward you for spending your money. We’ve rounded up several that can help make your holiday shopping as painless and as productive as possible.

Many of the major store chains have apps that provide you with access to weekly ads, special sale items, and even frequent shopper accounts. These can be handy as you browse the aisles or you can even shop in the comfort of your own home through many of them. If any of these stores are on your hit list for your holiday shopping needs, be sure to download these free apps.

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  If you love Target, the newest version of the Target App for iPhone gives you even more to love. Stay organized with TargetLists. Save money with Daily Deals. Check prices with the Barcode Scanner...

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  The Walmart app for iPhone helps you find quality products at unbeatable prices at home, in our stores or on the go. With our new Smart Shopping List, it’s now even easier to save money, stay on...

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  The Sears app is now even better! Our app has access to all of the items and categories on sears.com. Shop, find and buy right in the app, then pick it up at the store or have it sent to your door.*...

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  With the Nordstrom App, the latest looks are always at your fingertips. It's easier than ever to stay connected, see what's new and shop from your phone. You can: • Browse personalized product...

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  Discover a new way to shop your favorite store on the go! The latest version of Macy’s iPhone app puts everything right at your fingertips. Enjoy special offers & in-store savings, access...

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  Shop Gap and other Gap Inc stores with our easy to use app. Find, save, share and buy products when and where it is convenient for you. App Features: Browse – browse the latest fashions across...

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  Here’s another reason to love Old Navy: the logo is full of magic. To unlock it, all you need is Old Navy Snap Appy. You’re invited to try the first release of a fun, valuable, and most of all...

TapBuy Deals is a sales and deals app that lets you shop online at over a hundred retailers, including popular brands like the Gap, Best Buy, and others. Deals that are marked with a star can be purchased using TapBuy’s streamlined check-out process that lets you place orders within the app using your saved billing and shipping information. TapBuy also finds coupon codes and automatically applies them to your orders and features deals not available anywhere else.

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  Holy amazing way to shop, Batman! TapBuy Deals is the only sale & deal app that lets you buy in seconds without leaving the app or using a Web browser. And it's the only app to track...

For shoppers who like to frequent malls, Shopkick is an app you’ll definitely want to check out. The app awards you “kicks” for visiting participating stores, viewing special deals, and scanning barcodes of selected products using the iPhone’s camera. These kicks can be redeemed for gift certificates to places like Best Buy, Macy’s, and Target. At the time of this post, there are even items like a Sony flat-screen TV and a Princess Cruise trip on the rewards list. Of course, it can take a lot of kicks to get the larger items but if you’re out shopping often anyway, you can rack up a lot of kicks in short order.

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  Get FREE STUFF while you go shopping...almost 3 million users already shopping with it! “I love shopkick so much...I've collected over 10,000 kicks for free gift cards just by visiting...

If you’d rather shop for unique, hand-made products to give as gifts this holiday season, the online craft storefront Etsy now has an iPhone app. Etsy boasts over 11 million items from small businesses all over the world and you can shop them all right on your iPhone.

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  Buy directly from independent, creative businesses. Explore over 11 million unique items from small businesses all over the world. The Etsy app for your iPhone or iPod gives you one-touch access to...

If you prefer shopping in brick-and-mortar stores but still like to check to see if you’re getting the best possible deal, I recommend one of my long-standing favorites, RedLaser, to check local and online prices easily. Using the iPhone’s camera, you can scan barcodes and quickly get prices from several online stores and even from other local physical stores based on your current location. RedLaser recently got a major update to add shopping list creation capabilities and more and it’s still free, to boot.

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  RedLaser - Impossibly accurate barcode scanning. The ALL-NEW RedLaser is the best and easiest to use RedLaser yet! It has everything you loved in RL Classic andmore of the functionality you have...

Once you’ve placed all of your online orders, you can track each and every shipment using one of my perennial favorites, Junecloud’s Delivery Status touch. All you need is the tracking number for each delivery item and Delivery Status touch will show you where each item is and when it will arrive. With a free Junecloud Sync account, you can sync your entries between multiple iOS devices and your Mac through a free Dashboard widget.

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  “an essential tool for your package-tracking arsenal” — Gizmodo “Best App for Tracking Packages” — O’Reilly "8/10" — Wired App Guide “4½ mice” — Macworld ...

Happy shopping!

Apple released iTunes Match yesterday, a service that was first announced this summer at WWDC, in conjunction with version 10.5.1 of iTunes. Available only in the U.S. for now, iTunes Match costs $24.99 per year and offers cloud synchronization and storage of music purchased from the iTunes Store as well as “matching” of music ripped from CDs, which can then be streamed or downloaded to up to 10 devices associated with your Apple ID.

Here’s a brief description of the service from Apple’s site:

Here’s how it works: iTunes determines which songs in your collection are available in the iTunes Store. Any music with a match is automatically added to iCloud for you to listen to anytime, on any device. Since there are more than 20 million songs in the iTunes Store, chances are, your music is already in iCloud. And for the few songs that aren’t, iTunes has to upload only what it can’t match. Which is much faster than starting from scratch. Once your music is in iCloud, you can stream and store it to any of your devices. Even better, all the music iTunes matches plays back from iCloud at 256-Kbps AAC DRM-free quality — even if your original copy was of lower quality.

I’ll be honest with you – I was a little fuzzy on what would make iTunes Match a compelling service for someone like me. In researching a little more, I came across some additional information and resources that helped answer my questions that may also be helpful for you:

• You’ll need to have a computer with OS X Lion 10.7 or Windows Vista or later and iOS 5 on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to use iTunes Match. A list of requirements and instructions on how to subscribe to the service are available on Apple’s site in this knowledge base article.
• iTunes Match doesn’t care where your music came from when it comes to matching. If you ripped music from CDs, purchased music from Amazon or another digital music retailer, or even if you obtained it via torrenting or some other method (which is still illegal even though iTunes Match doesn’t penalize you for this). Ars Technica has an interesting article that addresses the question about whether or not Apple would use iTunes Match to identify those who have pirated music here.
• iTunes Match is limited to 25,000 songs (not including the songs you’ve purchased from the iTunes Store). Macworld investigated how to circumvent this limitation and describes the process in this article.
• There’s one question that I still haven’t seen answered directly by Apple and that’s what happens to your music if you let your iTunes Match subscription lapse or cancel it intentionally, specifically if you deleted the “original” songs from your library in favor of the higher bitrate versions that iTunes Match replaced them with. Will iTunes Match let you keep those songs or will they disappear, leaving you with no music at all? (Of course, the smart thing to do is make a back-up of your music first so you have a copy of it somewhere.) This article at The Next Web indicates that you get to keep that music, making iTunes Match a great way to get high-quality versions of music you obtained from other sources aside from the iTunes Store, legitimately or illegitimately.

If you have multiple Apple devices, iTunes Match is probably more compelling for you than for those who don’t. For example, iTunes Match will let you access all of your music through an Apple TV 2, which has little internal storage to hold music on its own (nor is it meant to), making it easier to listen to nearly every song in your music library through your home theater system. Or, if you have an iOS device with a small amount of storage that can’t hold your entire music library, iTunes Match will at least let you access more of your music than you would be able to otherwise.

I’m going to give iTunes Match a try. I’m particularly interested in accessing most of my music library on my iPhone and iPad without needing to physically load it all onto each device. I’ll also probably check it out on via my Apple TV 2 though that’s not a way I usually listen to my music. Are you going to subscribe to iTunes Match?

Our sister site MacRumors reported yesterday that the Apple may be planning an update to its official Apple Store iOS app that would allow users to use a self-checkout option to pay for accessories in Apple retail stores. These purchases would be charged to users’ iTunes store accounts.

This update is expected in just a few days on November 3, when another Apple retail store initiative that lets customers pick up purchases ordered on Apple’s website in a local retail store is also expected to be launched in more stores beyond those in the San Francisco Bay area where it’s currently available.

This update to the Apple Store app could be a welcome one for many as the holiday shopping season approaches. If it works as expected, you could bypass long lines in Apple Stores if you’re purchasing smaller items that are available on the shelves and don’t need to be fetched from the stock room by an employee.

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  When you’re on the go, the Apple Store app is the best way to research, personalize, and buy products from Apple, and get help at the Apple Retail Store. It’s also the easiest way to get a new...

Pixelmator Team, a London-based development company, announced the release a major update to its photo editing application for the Mac today. Version 2.0 of Pixelmator includes several new features, including content-aware fill to intelligently handle removing and replacing objects in photos, an advanced editing tool made popular by Adobe’s flagship Photoshop CS5 application.

The list of what’s new in Pixelmator 2.0 is as follows:

• New look and feel
• Drawing Tools and Shapes
• Healing Tool with Content-aware fill
• Smudge, Sponge, Burn, Dodge, Eyedropper, Pixel, and Red Eye Tools
• New Type Tool
• Complete OS X Lion Support
• And much more…

Pixelmator offers many photo editing features available in much more expensive applications, including Adobe’s Photoshop CS5. It can open and edit PSD (Photoshop format) files and uses the layer concept for editing, like Photoshop. Pixelmator is currently priced at $29.99, down from its regular price of $59.99. At either price, it’s an absolute bargain compared to Photoshop CS5 which costs $699 on its own (or $199 as an upgrade from a previous version).

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  Pixelmator is an inspiring, easy-to-use, beautifully designed image editor built to help you create stunning new images and edit your existing photos. Pixelmator takes full advantage of the latest...