August 2012 In Review

August has been the lull between July’s Mountain Lion release and September’s inevitable iPhone announcement. But that’s not to say it was a quiet month - it certainly wasn’t. On the news front, we saw Apple and Amazon reacting to Mat Honan’s ‘epic hacking’, the first Mountain Lion update, internal promotions at Apple and of course - the verdict in the Apple v. Samsung trial. August also saw big Pixelmator, Things, Instagram, Drafts and Buzz Contacts app updates amongst a bunch of other updates and new release apps. Finally, in the stories department, we wrote up a bunch of how-to’s and I talked about the rise of third party services and fall of Google in iOS. Be sure to stay tuned this September, it’s going to be a big month.

You can review past ‘Month In Review’ posts here.

Firemonkeys Announce Real Racing 3, Coming Later This Year

Apple Removes Native YouTube App From iOS Beta

Mat Honan: How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking

Apple Posts New iPad Advert: “All On iPad”

Amazon And Apple Take Steps To Fix Security Holes Revealed By Mat Honan’s Hack

Starbucks Signs Up For Square

Growl 2.0 SDK Gives Developers Access to Mountain Lion’s Notification Center

OS X Mountain Lion Updated to 10.8.1

Jury Finds Mostly Against Samsung, Apple Entitled To Damages Of $1.049 Billion

Craig Federighi and Dan Riccio Promoted to Senior Vice Presidents

Session Videos From The One More Thing Conference Now Available For Purchase

Buying a New iPad or iPhone? Have an Apple Specialist Walk You Through the Latest Features over the Internet.

The Highlights

Review: The New Day One

Pixelmator 2.1: Retina Graphics, Mountain Lion Ready, iCloud Support and Great New Features

Angry Birds Update Adds New “Power-Ups”, 15 New Levels

It’s Getting Partly Cloudy On Your iPhone

Instagram 3.0: Maps. New User Profiles. Infinite Scrolling.

Ecoute Is The Best Music Player For iOS. Period.

Drafts 2.0: New Fonts, New Look, A Brand New Kind of Sync, And Now On iPad

Review: Things 2 With Cloud Sync

Tweet Marker Plus Relaunches As Watermark, Adds Support For App.net

Buzz Contacts 2.0 Refines Interface, Improves Navigation

Everything Else

Scratch Review

Droplings Simplifies Public Sharing With Dropbox

Weather HD 2 — Yet Another Weather Forecast App?

I Want A Simple Event-Planning App. Pronto!

Shuffler.fm Is The Perfect Tool For Genre-Specific Music Discovery

Flip’s Escape Offers Tons Of Pixel Fun For iOS

Kindle for iOS Updated To 3.2 with Adjustable Margins

Apple by CLOG — A Book Review

Kuvva — Beautiful Art For Your Desktop. Automated.

The Rise Of Third Party Services And Fall Of Google In iOS

Sprinkle a Dash of Cocoa in Your AppleScripts

Plain Text, Macros, Markdown, and Nebulous Notes

Turn URLs and Webpages Into PDFs In Your Dropbox

Use Dribbble and Instagram as an Apple TV Screen Saver

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