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Apps Gone Free Roundup: Assassin’s Creed Recollection, Fishdom HD (Premium) and more
OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview now available for download [video tour]
Apple releases Messages beta for Mac OS X Lion

Apps Gone Free Roundup: Assassin’s Creed Recollection, Fishdom HD (Premium) and more

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:32 PM PST

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Recollection for the iPad, the well received card/board game based off the popular franchise, is now free for a limited time.

Assassin's Creed Recollection is a new iPad real-time board game from the Ubisoft Montreal studio that will allow players to live an entirely new experience in the world of Assassin's Creed. Fans of the franchise will be able to discover and amass a wide variety of artwork created for the Assassin's Creed games. They'll also be able to compete in political battles in a real-time board game with key characters and locations from the games.

Also free today is Playrix’s super addictive match 3 Fishdom HD (Premium), an iPad offering that would have set you back $6.99 otherwise. Other freebies include Prose with Bros, The Blocks Cometh and Fractal : Make Blooms Not War. Be sure to check out the rest of the roundup after the break.

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OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview now available for download [video tour]

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:47 AM PST

Apple has announced that the developer preview of the next version of OS X, dubbed Mountain Lion, is now available for download. While Lion’s release brought a number of features over from iOS (namely the App Store, Auto-Correct, Launchpad etc.), Mountain Lion takes it one step further by integrating Messages, Reminders, Twitter Integration and more.

Mountain Lion introduces Messages, Notes, Reminders and Game Center to the Mac, as well as Notification Center, Share Sheets, Twitter integration and AirPlay® Mirroring. Mountain Lion is the first OS X release built with iCloud® in mind for easy setup and integration with apps. The developer preview of Mountain Lion also introduces Gatekeeper, a revolutionary security feature that helps keep you safe from malicious software by giving you complete control over what apps are installed on your Mac.
"The Mac is on a roll, growing faster than the PC for 23 straight quarters, and with Mountain Lion things get even better," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "The developer preview of Mountain Lion comes just seven months after the incredibly successful release of Lion and sets a rapid pace of development for the world's most advanced personal computer operating system."

The preview version of Mountain Lion is only available to Mac Developer Program members ($99/year), so unless you’ve already enrolled (or are planning to), you’ll have to wait until its official release later this summer. In the mean time though, you can check out Apple’s video tour highlighting all of Mountain Lion’s major new features after the break.

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Apple releases Messages beta for Mac OS X Lion

Posted: 16 Feb 2012 09:04 AM PST

One of the most popular features found in iOS 5 – iMessage – will be coming to a Mac near you, thanks to the upcoming and next major release of Mac Os: Mountain Lion. In fact, the beta version of Messages for Mac was released earlier today, so current Lion users can get a taste of sending messages to other iDevices right from their Macs. Here’s what you can expect from the highly anticipated chat app:

Send unlimited iMessages to any Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.*
Start an iMessage conversation on your Mac and continue it on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
Send photos, videos, attachments, contacts, locations, and more.
Launch a FaceTime video call and bring the conversation face-to-face.
Messages supports iMessage, AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, and Jabber accounts.

Upon installing Messages, it’ll replace iChat on your Mac, though iChat services will continue to work. You can download the (free) Messages beta app directly from Apple.