Mountain Lion Release Date
Mountain Lion, the next OSX iteration after Lion will be released in July 2012, it has been announced at Apple’s WWDC (World Wide Developer Conference). 
The operating system will be available on the Mac App Store for $19.99 to upgrade. This is a drop from $29.99 for the previous update. And users who didn’t get the last upgrade Lion, and are still on Snow Leopard will be able to upgrade.
More information about the features and upgrading can be seen : http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/
And for more information about the release see : the LA Times Business article.
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yes you will be able to upgrade Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion see apple.com/osx/how-to-upg…(thanks @flo_muc )
— Paul (@paulsavage) June 14, 2012
How to find new apps ?
Let’s be honest finding new apps on iTunes or the AppStore just really doesn’t work. Either the interface is too clunky, it’s too slow, or well it just doesn’t work. Finding new apps, especially ones that are new or not highly popular is next to impossible. It’s just the way the AppStore listings work, Apple’s take on it is to make it easy for people to find popular apps, but less known one will more or less suffer as they won’t be discovered. This is both bad for app developers as well as consumers.
Enter LinguaSearch, (http://appsinmylanguage.com) by AppLingua (http://applingua.com/) have come up with a rather novel App Search engine. Which is tailored to working in 14 locations, including Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian languages.
Best apps for programming on mac
Here are some recommendations of IDEs, Integrated Development Environments, that run well on Macs. These appear in no particular order :
- SublimeText
- IntelliJ
- Eclipse
- Mono for C#
- XCode for iOS programming
- TextMate (Kod is an free alternative to TextMate)
- MacVim
- TextWrangler
- BBEdit is like TextWrangler but with an extensive professional feature set
If you’re doing web development and want to use a local server, check out MAMP. This will allow you to run and test your programs on a local server, so no need to have server space setup.