News: iMac television functionality, Apple's Grand Central store, pull-to-refresh in OS X, and more!

Written by Benny Ling | 09 December 2011
Posted in Apple

Forbes reports that a next-generation iMac might contain television-like functionality similar to what the current Apple TV offers in terms of streamable content via the iTunes Store, but there are plenty of people skeptical that this will eventuate. Mac Rumours even notes that this may even be pure speculation on the part of the analyst that produced the original report, which is exactly how the Apple rumour sphere operates.

Fortune has a nice video walkthrough of Apple's opening-very-soon Grand Central store. As far as Apple stores go, it's perhaps one with the most variety — plenty of open space, but also a few cosier spaces. Glass doesn't seem to be featured quite as prominently, but that's okay, New Zealand still doesn't have an Apple Store.

OS X Daily show you how to add pull-to-refresh to Chrome or Safari via extensions for either browser, bringing yet another iOS user interaction paradigm back to the Mac. It almost seems like a feature that should have been there to begin with, but on the other hand it seems like something that could potentially be annoying, too.

The Steve Jobs biography is Amazon's best-selling book for the whole of 2011, which isn't a mean feat, especially for a book that was only released some 46 days ago.

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