Filed under: Deals Wanted to mention this one before the deal ends: Right now, you can get 10 applications for $49.99 from The Mac Sale . Most notably, this bundle includes CrossOver Games from CodeWeavers which allows you to play many popular games from the Windows platform on your Mac or Linux computer. The bundle also includes Picturesque , a great application that enhances your pictures: also a winner of an Apple Design Award.

Gizmodo toured Apple’s just-opened retail store on the Upper West Side, and calls it a “temple” to the company’s products. I call it a temple because the architecture conveys a nearly religious aesthetic, a place to worship Apple, beyond any other Apple store you’ve ever been to. The top floor’s a vast open space, enclosed by

Filed under: Accessories , Cult of Mac The creative minds at Mintpass have taken applications we’re all pretty familiar with and brought us ideas that make the TUAW bloggers drool. Recently, they created Mint Calculator #4 ; a concept that pulls the calculators from both the Mac OS and Windows out of the screen and places them on your desk — as real, physical desk accessories. The picture to the right is a mockup of the Mac OS calculator application, made into a real life calculator with mashable buttons and the typical aluminum style of Apple products.

Filed under: Retail , Surveys and Polls , iPhone iPhone sales are up more than 4% from a year ago, while the leading smartphone seller, Nokia , is down 3% from a year ago. That’s the word from Gartner Research today as they survey 3rd quarter sales

The iPhone App Store has been ridiculed quite a bit in the past over their draconian as well as inconsistent approval policies. These policies of Apple claimed another victim today when Joe Hewitt, the brain behind Facebook’s iPhone app announced that he was quitting the project.

High-end audio vendor B&W has announced the company’s first forays into the headphone and computer-speaker markets.

Close on the heels of the iKee virus attack that rickrolled jailbroken iPhone users earlier this week comes yet another worm that exploits the same security hole – just that this one is much more dangerous. A Mac Security software development company, Intego has revealed that the worm called iPhone/Privacy.A…

Today’s bevy of bargains starts with a bundle of nano applications from MacHeist. Included in the offer is VirusBarrier X5 for free. The VirusBarrier barrier is part of MacHeist’s nanoBundle: twitterific, mariner write and four other applications

Filed under: Software , Freeware , Developer I sure thought Google Chrome was already out for Mac , but apparently that was just a developer preview — they haven’t yet done an official release ( it’s been a tough road to travel, I guess). But the wait is almost over , according to Mashable. They’ve spotted a message on a developer list that hints at a beta release as soon as this December, assuming the extensions team gets their BrowserActions ready, the code clears the appointed timelines, and the stars align over the Pegasus constellation in the fifth quadrant

Filed under: Software The productivity suites for Mac from Microsoft, past and present, received a patch this week to resolve security issues and improve performance. While the 2004 version only got the security patches , the 2008 update, to version 12.2.3 , boasts the following fixes to all apps in the suite: Security is improved .

Apple’s iPhone now accounts for 17 percent of global smartphone sales, propelled by a nearly 50 percent growth rate for the third quarter, new research released Thursday indicates. Cupertino’s rising star in worldwide smartphone demand is expected to only increase as the iPhone becomes available in China and more carriers begin offering the popular cell

Filed under: Retail It’s scheduled to open to the public on Saturday morning , but Apple gave a sneak peek of its newest US retail outlet to press and photographers this morning — no, I wasn’t invited, and yes, I did ask nicely. Gothamist is there , though, and snapping some snazzy pictures of the grand glass roof and huge sales space

Gameloft has resurrected this lovable ’90s video game character for the iPhone and iPod touch. It’s a strong effort that preserves the look-and-feel of the original while adding some iPhone-specific touches.