Tech Drunk Staff 
The Mac App Store , announced at the Back to the Mac event of Apple on 20, October 2010, was finally unveiled on 6 January 2011. Apple is providing over a thousand apps with the opening of this store, including the iLife and iWork apps. Now you can find and download all the apps for your Mac with this one installation. Getting it on your Mac is also easy as it comes as a software update. You can download it from the software update option in your Mac.
After you have installed it, the icon appears on the dock. You can begin browsing Mac apps by category or search for what you are want specifically, and when you find one, just click to buy it. Yes! There is but a step to get your apps installed. It is that simple. This will minimize the time often taken in searching and installing the apps. The re-download option lets you download your already downloaded apps again. This is very helpful in case you buy a new Mac and want to install the apps that you had in your previous Mac that you owned.
The Mac App Store will also alert you if there is any update available on any of your apps. Likewise, you can also easily update the Mac App Store just like you update any software from the Apple menu. Steve Jacob, CEO of Apple said, “The App Store revolutionized mobile apps. We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun.” at the unveiling of the Store.
Some apps that you might want to check out are Compartments, LittleSnapper, Pixelmator, rubiTrack, SketchBook Pro, Pages, Numbers, iMovie’11, GarageBand’11 and so on. You can learn more about each app in detail at the Mac App Store. Your Apple ID that you use in iTunes can be used at the Mac Apps Store, so there is no need to create for a new one. Using the store (on your Mac) is also easy as it is similar to buying and downloading apps on to iPhone, iPod Touch, iTunes etc. So get it on and run the fun.
