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It’s been rumored for quite sometime but Apple has finally unveiled a Mac app that brings iMessage to the desktop. Messages replaces iChat but keeps all the goodness of the old platform. When you install Messages, it replaces iChat. But iChat services will continue to work. And Messages allows you to send unlimited iMessages to any Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Connected via your Apple ID, you can start an iMessage conversation on your Mac and continue it on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Other features include the ability to send photos, videos, attachments, contacts, locations, and more. AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, and Jabber account integration is still supported, as was the case with iChat.

This also gives us a preview of what to expect from OS X Mountain Lion, the next Mac OS. Mountain Lion takes much inspiration from the iOS platform that runs on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Expect integration with Reminders, Notes, Notification Center, and much more.

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Attention early adopters: Apple’s updated their line of MacBook Pros with some beefed up performance. The aluminum shells remain but one of the standout features is something that most probably haven’t ever heard of. The Thunderbolt port allows you to connect high-performance peripherals and high-res displays to a single port. Transfer rates are theoretically upto 10 Gbps which is just nuts. There aren’t that many Thunderbolt-compatible peripherals out right now but that should change over the coming months.

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Denmark’s Wood Wood has some great accessories at pretty affordable prices, this premium leather shell for your laptop being one of them. The case is perfect for your 13-inch Mac, considering that’s the only laptop manufactured anymore. It’s simple, durable and comes in this camel brown finish that will give your daily commute a nice pop of call during the winter days. Just saying.

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Well folks, after much rumbling in the rumor mill, the curtain’s been lifted. We love the multi-touch trackpads on our MacBook Pros and it’s only right Apple deliver the same portability to the Apple-lovin’ masses. Following in the footsteps of its famed brethren, Magic Mouse, the new Magic Trackpad is the first Multi-Touch trackpad that’s designed to work with your Mac desktop computer.

It gives us a substantial amount of space to get the job done and delivers the full set of gestures that we’ve come to love on our more portable Pros. As with most Apple peripherals of this nature, it’ll be connecting via bluetooth, and it can be used with or without a mouse.

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With your social networking accounts growing, may we recommend an desktop application that helps to give you an organized view into all of them? Skimmer’s a social web reader by Fallon, a Minneapolis-based ad agency. 

Skimmer℠ is an Adobe AIR desktop application designed to streamline, beautify, and enhance the experience of participating in your most frequently used social networking activities. It improves upon day-to-day interaction with multiple social networks, removing distractions and providing a rich content experience from Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger and YouTube. (more…)

For people on the go, a notebook (obviously) is the best way to go.  For people on the go, a 17″ display that gives you a numberpad is not the way to go.  I travel with an 11″ display and when I’m punching numbers, I’m left without a numberpad for ease of use.

For Mac users, this dilemma is gone with the help of a new iPhone app called numberkey.  Perfect for heavy duty spreadsheet users, this nifty new application for the iPhone and iPod Touch lets you use your mobile device as an ad-hoc numeric keypad for your Mac. Just install Balmuda’s Numberkey connect software onto your Mac, then grab the mobile app from the App Store for $1.99. The two pieces of software communicate via Wi-Fi, adding a familiar 18-key numeric keyboard to your Mac without wires. Not bad, right?

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We honestly don’t know what to make of this mouse yet, but we thought we’d get your opinion on it instead.  The HandshoeMouse comes in three different sizes and the makers say that it’s “the only mouse that fits like a glove.”  Does it really?  Well it takes alot of work away from our fingers and wrist and puts the gliding effort on our arms, giving us effortless usability.

The Handshoe is available in black, white, and high tech transparent.  The HandshoeMouse is available now for 120 EUR with a wireless version expected to be available at the end of the year.

HandshoeMouse:

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Earlier at Apple’s “Let’s Rock” event, iTunes 8 was unveiled along with the new firmware for the iPod (version 2.1).  Well, it’s live now, so head over to Apple’s website to download iTunes 8 or plug in your iPod to update to 2.1 via iTunes.  In order to update your iPod, you have to have version 7.7 or version 8 of iTunes.

Oh and Quicktime 7.5.5 is also available.

Source:  TUAW