iTunes Store: Top Mac Apps

Cobook - Cobook

2012-05-27T23:15:02-07:00

Cobook
Cobook
Genre: Productivity
Release Date: May 24, 2012

Manage your contacts with joy!

Cobook is the smart address book for your Mac.

Highlights:

- Syncs with OS X standard Address Book

- Quick access via menu bar

- Automatically imports and updates your contacts from Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter

- Tags makes it easier to organize contacts

- "Quick Add" helps adding contact details faster

"Cobook takes away all the pain and makes organizing contacts
a painless, even enjoyable task for the first time ever." - Cult of Mac

"Cobook is our favorite. It's intelligent search and
social media integration makes it very easy to love." - Lifehacker

"Cobook is a Mac contact management app that’s
simple, powerful and actually fun to use." - TechCrunch

"Cobook looks to have its sights on becoming
the “go to” app for contact management." - Mac.AppStorm

Find out more about Cobook on www.cobookapp.com
© 2012 Cobook

Pinball Lite - baKno Games

2012-05-27T23:15:02-07:00

Pinball Lite
baKno Games
Genre: Games
Release Date: May 21, 2012

Totally redesigned 3D Pinball game with an amazing new feature: a Table Editor for you to create and play your own tables.

Pinball comes with 10 original tables and a growing number of online tables created by players around the world.

Experience tons of amazing effects in this original, highly entertaining Pinball game.

With realistic physics, cool sounds and unlimited tables, Pinball will have you coming back for more.
© 2012 baKno Games

OS X Lion - Apple

2012-05-27T23:15:02-07:00

OS X Lion
Apple
Genre: Productivity
Price: $29.99
Release Date: July 20, 2011

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, and scroll your way through your apps using fluid Multi-Touch gestures that make everything you do feel more natural and direct. Full-screen apps take advantage of every pixel of your display — perfect for reading email, surfing the web, or browsing photos. Launchpad gives you instant access to all the apps on your Mac in a stunning new layout where you can quickly find any app and open it with a single click. And Mission Control brings together Exposé, full-screen apps, Dashboard, and Spaces in one unified experience. With a gesture, your desktop zooms out, displaying a bird’s-eye view of everything running on your Mac and making it easy to navigate anywhere with a click.

Multi-Touch gestures
• Fluid and realistic animations make gestures feel natural and direct.
• Tap or pinch to zoom in on text and images.
• Swipe left or right to move from one page to another in an app or switch from one full-screen app to another.
• Swipe up to enter Mission Control.
• Pinch to access Launchpad.

Full-screen apps
• A new full-screen button takes an app window full screen.
• Run multiple full-screen apps at the same time.
• Switch between full-screen apps and your desktop with a gesture.
• Apps stay full screen when you switch to another app.
• OS X Lion includes full-screen Mail, Safari, Preview, iCal, FaceTime, Dashboard, Screen Sharing, and Photo Booth.

Mission Control
• Brings together Exposé, full-screen apps, Dashboard, and desktop spaces.
• Gives you a bird’s-eye view of everything running on your Mac, allowing you to navigate anywhere with a click.
• Exposé view shows all open windows on your desktop grouped by application.
• Create and organize desktop spaces in Mission Control.

Launchpad
• A new home for all the apps on your Mac.
• Apps downloaded from the Mac App Store automatically appear in Launchpad.
• Launchpad automatically adds pages to accommodate all your apps.
• Apps can be organized on multiple pages and grouped in folders.

Mail
• The widescreen layout displays the message list and selected email side by side in full-height columns.
• The favorites bar gives you one-click access to your favorite mail folders.
• Search suggestions dynamically present the best matches for your search.
• Search tokens help refine search results based on people, subjects, mailboxes, dates, and attachments.
• Conversations automatically groups related messages, displaying them in chronological order and hiding repetitive quoted text.

Other great Lion features
• Auto Save automatically saves your changes as you go, so you never have to worry about losing your work.
• Versions keeps a history of your document as you work and presents it in a timeline you can browse.
• Resume reopens an app exactly as you left it.
• AirDrop is the simplest way to send files to anyone around you, wirelessly — no setup or special settings required.
• Reading List in Safari lets you easily save web pages to read or browse later.

Some features require an Apple ID and/or compatible Internet access; fees and terms apply.

Some features require apps developed to work with Lion.

Gestures require a Multi-Touch trackpad or Magic Mouse (some gestures are not available on Magic Mouse).

AirDrop is supported on the following Mac models: MacBook Pro (late 2008 or newer), MacBook Air (late 2010 or newer), MacBook (late 2008 or newer), iMac (early 2009 or newer), Mac mini (mid 2010 or newer), Mac Pro (early 2009 with AirPort Extreme card and mid 2010 or newer).
© 2011 Apple, Inc.

CleanMyDrive - clean and eject external drives - MacPaw Inc.

2012-05-27T23:15:02-07:00

CleanMyDrive - clean and eject external drives
MacPaw Inc.
Genre: Utilities
Release Date: May 23, 2012

★ To celebrate the successful launch of CleanMyDrive, get MacPaw's Gemini, Ensoul or Hider with 30% discount! ★

Maintain your removable drives as easy as never before with CleanMyDrive!

CleanMyDrive cleans up needless service junk generated by Windows or Mac OS (DS_Store, Thumbs.db, Spotlight, hidden trashes and so on). It also helps you to manage your external drives.

Main features:
★ Clean up drives from junk manually or automatically
★ Eject all external drives with one click
★ Access and eject your drives right from the main menu
★ Monitor free space on your drives
★ Works with external HDD, flash drives, DMG files and network volumes

How CleanMyDrive helps you in real life:
★ Cleans those annoying service files that your media player fails to play
★ Erases files from your drives, not just moves them to Trash like Finder
★ Removes thumbs.db and other Windows files that bring no value
★ Ejects all drives at once correctly when you hurry your Mac into sleep mode

CleanMyDrive - a tiny yet powerful utility to take control over your mounted drives!
© 2008-2012 MacPaw Inc.

WeatherEye - The Weather Network / MeteoMedia

2012-05-27T23:15:02-07:00

WeatherEye
The Weather Network / MeteoMedia
Genre: Weather
Release Date: May 02, 2011

WeatherEye provides FREE up to the minute local forecasts with current, hourly, 5 – 14 day forecasts and trends for your favorite cities around the world. Get the current temperature right on your menu bar. It alerts you when active weather is in your area and you can follow the storms using our interactive satellite and radar maps, videos, photos and more!

Features:
• Current weather temperature and conditions
• Local forecasts from Hourly thru to 14 Day
• Severe Weather Alerts
• Satellite and Radar Maps
• Top Weather News Stories
• Videos and Photos
• Removable dock icon available
• Much More!
© The Weather Network

Virtual City Playground - G5 Entertainment

2012-05-27T23:15:02-07:00

Virtual City Playground
G5 Entertainment
Genre: Games
Release Date: December 15, 2011

Build the city of your dreams… and then run it!

Subscribe to the G5 newsletter and get a free game! www.g5e.com/e-mail
● Build dwellings and industrial buildings.
● Produce goods and deliver them to the shopping malls.
● Set up a mass-transit system to take your citizens to places like parks, cinemas and stadiums.
● Make your city a better place to live by recycling garbage, adding hospitals and fire stations, planting trees, and upgrading buildings.
● Make citizens happier by launching spectacular public events!

Includes:

● Over 190 optional quests
● Over 140 buildings, landmarks, and decorations
● 95 achievements to earn
● Regular FREE updates to the game, so download and stay tuned!
Next update: EuroCup 2012 update! Football (Soccer) gameplay and content, disabled sleeping mode during city recalculation, and fresh new quests!

***Minimized games continue transporting goods - making you money, even while you sleep!***

Get the Games Navigator – By G5 Games and keep up to date on all G5 games!
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A new game app every week - collect them all! Search for "g5" in Mac App Store!

Time Management Games:

▶ Fix-it-up: Kate's Adventure
▶ Virtual City 2: Paradise Resort
▶ Jack of All Tribes
▶ Supermarket Management
▶ Stand O' Food® 3
▶ Supermarket Mania® 2
▶ Virtual City
▶ Supermarket Mania®
▶ Stand O' Food®
▶ Success Story

Hidden Object Games:

▶ Spirit of Wandering - The Legend
▶ Royal Trouble: Hidden Adventures
▶ The Mystery of the Crystal Portal
▶ Mahjongg Artifacts®
▶ Mahjongg Artifacts® 2
▶ Paranormal Agency
▶ Special Enquiry Detail: The Hand that Feeds
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VISIT US: www.g5e.com
WATCH US: www.youtube.com/g5enter
FIND US: www.facebook.com/g5games
FOLLOW US: www.twitter.com/g5games
© 2012 G5 Entertainment AB

Pages - Apple

2012-05-27T23:15:02-07:00

Pages
Apple
Genre: Productivity
Price: $19.99
Release Date: January 03, 2011

Pages ’09 is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout application. It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next, always with a perfect document in the works.

Pages starts with an enhanced Template Chooser that lets you skim through more than 180 Apple-designed templates. You can easily create stunning documents, ranging from a simple letter to a professionally polished resume to a newsletter and more. Or start with a blank page and create your own design on a free-form canvas. Whatever you write, Pages puts powerful tools at your fingertips. So you can create beautiful, media-rich documents in minutes.

Streamlined word processor
• Simple interface that lets you launch and start typing in seconds
• Paragraph and character styles
• Automatic list formatting
• Flexible structure for creating any type of document with section, layout, and page breaks
• Table of contents

Advanced writing tools
• Full-screen view
• Outline mode
• Seamless integration with MathType 6 and EndNote X4*
• Change tracking
• Mail merge with Address Book or Numbers
• Spell checker and proofreader
• Search view
• Page Navigator
• Word processing utilities including word count and automatic page numbering

Great-looking documents in minutes
• Over 180 Apple-designed templates
• Advanced Template Chooser
• iLife Media Browser for quick access to iLife photos, movies, and music
• Powerful graphics tools including Instant Alpha, masking, and photo adjustments
• Tables with headers, cell formatting, and calculations
• 2D and 3D charts
• Typography features including smart quotes, ligatures, and automatic scaling

Powerful page layout
• Free-form graphics canvas
• Control over text flow with linked text boxes
• Text wrapping

Compatibility and sharing
• Import and export Microsoft Word documents
• Send as a Pages, Word, or PDF file directly to email
• Share online using iWork.com public beta
• Import AppleWorks word processing documents
• Export PDF and ePub files
• Import and export RTF documents
• Import a wide range of media types including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PSD, EPS, PDF, AIFF, MP3, AAC, and MOV

* MathType and EndNote both sold separately. EndNote integration requires plug-in available from Pages support link.

Some features may require Internet access; additional fees and terms may apply.

iWork does not include support for some Chinese, Japanese, or Korean (CJK) text input features such as vertical text.
© 2005-2011 Apple Inc.

Twitter - Twitter, Inc.

2012-05-27T23:15:02-07:00

Twitter
Twitter, Inc.
Genre: Social Networking
Release Date: January 05, 2011

Follow your interests: instant updates from your friends, industry experts, favorite celebrities, and what’s happening around the world. Get short bursts of timely information on the official Twitter for Mac app.

Real-time search reveals breaking news, while trending topics show what’s happening around the world.

Features: Find & follow friends, Tweet, Retweet, Favorite, Direct Message privately with your followers, share web pages, real-time search, and view trends.
© Copyright © 2011 Twitter, Inc.

Smart Converter - ShedWorx

2012-05-27T23:15:02-07:00

Smart Converter
ShedWorx
Genre: Video
Release Date: July 06, 2011

Quite simply the smartest, simplest and most efficient converter out there. Smart Converter will provide a faster, higher quality conversion than most existing converters.

⚡⚡⚡ News Flash - Smart Converter PRO is now live on the app store! Pro has batch conversions and much, much more. ⚡⚡⚡

⚡⚡⚡ Worldwide Number 1 Free Video App ⚡⚡⚡

Drag your video or audio file to Smart Converter, select an output format and convert, it's as simple as that. Smart converter will analyse your file and preserve as much of the original as possible, optimising conversion speed and quality.

Smart Converter handles hundreds of file types and converts to all your favourite formats, it will also add your converted file to iTunes.

Need more convincing, get Smart Converter and try it for yourself, it's FREE.

Why So Smart?
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When you drop a media file into Smart Converter and choose a conversion type, it immediately analyses your file and works out exactly what part of it needs to be converted to achieve the desired output.

In many cases neither the video nor the audio need converting. In some cases just one or the other need converting, and in a few cases both will need converting.

Doing this analysis ensures Smart Converter only converts stuff that needs converting, and leaves the rest alone. This has a two-fold advantage over many other converters; it's usually very fast and maintains the highest possible quality of video and audio.
© Systemic Pty Ltd

The Unarchiver - Dag Agren

2012-05-27T23:15:02-07:00

The Unarchiver
Dag Agren
Genre: Utilities
Release Date: April 14, 2011

The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR, 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2. It will also open many older formats, such as StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ and ARC. It will even open other kinds of files, like ISO and BIN disc images, some Windows .EXE installers. The list is actually much longer - see the program homepage for the full list.

The Unarchiver also tries to detect and correctly handle the filename encoding in the archives it opens, allowing you to open files from every part of the world without getting garbled filenames.

The Unarchiver aims to be the only unarchiving program you will ever need, and to stay out of your way.

However, if you want to browse the contents of archives, or if you want to support development of The Unarchiver, look for The Archive Browser on the Mac App Store! It lets you browse and preview archive contents, and find out information about archives!
© 2011 Dag Ågren