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MacUpdate has offered several "bundles" offering Mac software at a discounted price. [2] [3] [4] The company offered an application called MacUpdate Desktop ($20/year with a 10 day trial) which automatically downloaded and installed updates to other installed applications on a user's Mac. [5] MacUpdate Desktop has since been discontinued. [6]
MacHeist II began in Nov. 2007 with the creation of a character named Malcor, a computer hacker with a grudge against "Apple fanbois." As a marketing stunt, the owners of a number of small Apple-related blogs were contacted by Philip Ryu and asked to participate in the lead-up to MacHeist II, by making their sites appear to have been hacked by Malcor.
The largest joint venture undertaken was the coupling of Koingo Software's Utility Package (the combination of all 12 of their software titles at the time) with MacUpdate's 2008 back-to-school bundle. [6] Then later that year, the businesses offered Koingo Software's MacPilot in the 2008 Christmas Holiday Bundle. [7]
An update to the Mac App Store for OS X Mountain Lion introduced an Easter egg in which, if one downloads an app from the Mac App Store and goes to one's app folder before the app has finished downloading, one will see the app's timestamp as "January 24, 1984, at 2:00 AM," the date the original Macintosh went on sale.
The last release of Steel Skies’ stand-alone application, version RC1.2, was released on September 10, 2006, and freely distributed until the end of the next day only; however, it remains available for download from MacUpdate. On January 9, 2007, when Apple announced the iPhone, it was announced that it would incorporate Cover Flow technology.
High-quality multilingual speech voices – users can download new high-quality voices in more than forty languages and dialects. [42] [43] iCal has an updated user interface, an annual view, and support for a full-screen view. [44] [45] iChat has support for logging into Yahoo! Messenger. Users can audio- and video-chat with other iChat users ...
Homebrew is a free and open-source software package management system that simplifies the installation of software on Apple's operating system, macOS, as well as Linux.The name is intended to suggest the idea of building software on the Mac depending on the user's taste.
Mactracker is a freeware application containing a complete database of all Apple hardware models and operating system versions, created and actively developed by Ian Page. The database includes, but is not limited to, the Lisa (under its later name, Macintosh XL), Classic Macintosh (1984–1996), printers, scanners, QuickTake digital cameras, iSight, iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPort ...