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Apple has taken down its OS XDownloadspage, ushering out one more piece of the non-Mac-App-Store direct download era, reportsMacstories. The page, which hosted links to Mac downloads and software for OS X, free of charge to developers, was slated for removal by Apple late last year. The page, hosted atapple.com/downloads, was a huge driver of traffic for Mac software downloads and provided a central location for Mac users looking for quality software to go and browse....

There are hundreds of task managers for the Mac out there. I’ve used many of them, and I’ve faced a bunch of the more popular apps against each other. Here are my finalists, notable mentions — and at the end, the winner of The Next Web’s OS X task manager showdown. It’s impossible to review every task manager for the OS X because everyone and their dog has built one. If you’ve got a favorite, let us know about in the comments....

It seems weird there was a time when the MacBook Prodidn’texist.Apple’smost premium portable computer is an integral part of its lineup, something I associate with the company as much as the iPhone. All things have to start somewhere though — andthe MacBook Pro’spublic life began on January 10, 2006. It was at Macworld in San Francisco where Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s new computer, which was the spiritual successor tothe PowerBook G4....

One of our favoriteSuperBowl commercials from this past February was undoubtedly Volkswagen’s Black Beetle, which promoted the forthcoming launch of the new 21st Century VW Beetle. As viewers, we rarely pause to think of the amount of technology and craft that goes into a 30 second spot in between touchdowns and hot wings. The commercial was created by Director Dante Ariola, agency Deutsch, and The Mill London to create the realistic CG beetle and its insect friends....

Microsoft began to roll out the Mango update to Windows Phone 7 today. The update process will be a rolling event, one that the company described as “conservative” at its start. Microsoft wants to avoid another update cycle fiasco, such as it suffered with the release of the last major Windows Phone update, NoDo. During that process, confusion, delays, and bugs abounded. It was a rather abortive experience. To that end, the company plans on immediately collecting “telemetry” on the release to catch problems that might crop up in the market that it did not anticipate or note in testing....