First Look at the Mac App Store: Your One-Stop Shop for Mac Software (Mac) Apple just dropped Mac OS X 10.6.6, complete with the long-awaited Mac App Store. Here's a quick look at what it offers, how it works, and how you can (in theory) use it to better manage the apps on your computer.
Perfect Browser Adds Tabs, Gestures, and More to iOS, Is the Ultimate iPad Browser (iOS) Safari is an okay browser on the iPhone, but it's surprisingly unsatisfactory on the much larger-screened iPad. Perfect Browser completely changes the iOS browsing experience, bringing tabbed browsing, user agent control, touch screen gestures, and hyper fast scrolling to your fingertips.
Handbrake 0.9.5 Adds Batch Scanning, Queue Editing, and Blu-ray Support (Windows/Mac/Linux) Our favorite DVD-ripping, video-converting program Handbrake just updated today, bringing with it many annoyance fixes that speed up the process, like batch video scanning, queue editing, Blu-ray disc recognition, and drag-and-drop file additions in Windows.
FreeOCR Is a No-Hassle Scan-to-Text Converter for Windows (Windows) Your scanner probably came with OCR software. Chances are, though, it's both awkward and space-hogging. FreeOCR is an slim, efficient app that has just four main buttons, and performs well at converting scanned images and PDFs into edit-ready text.
WinMP3Packer Decreases the Size of Your Music Library with No Quality Loss (Windows) If your music's starting to take up an uncomfortable amount of space on your hard drive (or small MP3 player), you can decrease the size of it by converting all your songs to Variable Bit Rate with WinMp3Packer.
Security Cam Turns Your iPhone's Camera into a Security Camera and Monitor (iOS) As the name suggests, Security Cam is a security camera app for your iPhone or iPod touch. It lets you secretly capture images and video for specified periods of time, allowing you to also use it for time-lapse photography.
KhanApp Offers Free Education To Go (iOS/Android) Education on-the-go is now easier thanks to Khan Academy's mobile application. KhanApp is a mobile webapp that offers a full-fledged application experience around your favorite Khan Academy videos.
