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Pioneering digital publisher Telltale Inc. is bringing its lineup of games to Mac starting today with critically-acclaimed pirate adventure Tales of Monkey Island. As part of the revolution, new Telltale customers will get both Mac and PC versions of the multi-platform games with a single purchase. Any customers that have bought these titles from Telltale in the past can download the Mac version for no additional charge. You decide what’s next at the Telltale Games website.

Blue Crowbar Software has released 64-bit versions of its Impression and Aperture2Twitter plug-ins for Aperture 3. Impression provides a flexible way of adding custom watermarks to photos in Aperture while Aperture2Twitter enables the user to quickly send photos to Twitter. With the use of native 64-bit plug-ins, photographers can enjoy all time-saving new features of the latest Aperture release at full 64-bit speed.

Apple today unveiled a “Countdown to 10 Billion Songs” promotion via the iTunes Store, offering the contest winner a prize of a $10,000 iTunes gift card. A counter on the main iTunes Store page and Apple’s home page currently displays in exc…

Apple today released Mac Pro Audio Update 1.0, addressing heat and performance issues experienced by users of Apple’s Nehalem-based Mac Pros when processing audio.

This update is for Mac Pro (Early 2009) computers running Mac OS X v10…

Silicon Alley Insider reports on information from a source claiming that rumors of Apple looking to develop its own search engine are untrue and that Apple’s current deal with Google to provide default search functionality for the iPhone is currently…

T3 reports that Microsoft Senior Product Manager Mike Tedesco revealed during the Office for Mac 2011 preview event at Macworld that the company is “looking at” the possibility of bringing its Office productivity suite to Apple’s iPad tablet device.<…

Over the weekend, Groklaw discovered a couple of interesting e-mails sent by Microsoft executives Bill Gates and Jim Allchin to other members of the Microsoft executive team revealing that the company had been taken by surprise by Apple’s launch of t…

Microsoft today announced a sneak preview of Office for Mac 2011, set for release later this year. The preview, scheduled in conjunction with Macworld Expo in San Francisco, details several significant changes including the adoption of a “ribbon” in…

Google today announced the release of a new beta of Google Chrome for Mac, adding several new features such as extensions and bookmark syncing that were left out of the initial beta released in December while also focusing on a “snappy, safe, and sim…

Centrify Corporation announced enhanced features in its newly released DirectControl for Mac OS X v4.4 designed to help IT and helpdesk staff streamline the deployment, security and management of the Mac in sophisticated, Windows-managed, IT environments. Centrify also announced it earned the Department of Defense JITC certification for support of Common Access Cards and strong authentication, and integration with Group Logic Extreme Z-IP for support.