Mac: In order to manually update any apps you download from the Mac App Store, you have to open the app, click the download tab, wait for it to update, then click the update all button. Mas is a little command line interface that lets you do all that from your favourite Terminal app.

Mac: Sick of always entering in your password to download stuff from the Mac App Store? Like iOS, you can set up the Mac App Store to bypass the password prompt when you're downloading free software.

Don't want to upgrade to Mavericks -- or stuck in a position where you cannot? That shouldn't be a problem for app compatibility in the near future.

When the Mac App Store launched in January, we debated whether it sucked or not based on the store's conveniences and annoyances. We avoided judging it on available apps, since the store had just been launched. Now that the App Store has had time to mature, we're taking another look at what the Mac App Store offers that you can't get anywhere else. Here are our favourite apps exclusive to the Mac App Store.

Amazon's Kindle app has arrived in the Mac App Store, although it's much the same as the version you could download from the web.

While the new Mac App Store has some benefits, some of you may dislike it enough that you want to uninstall it completely. It isn't supported by Apple, but tech blog OSNews reports that it is possible: just remove it with something like previously mentioned AppCleaner.

Heading to the relatives' place for a long stay? Working on a Mac that's not your own? Using the new Mac App Store's easy licensing and installation, you can create a new user account and quickly set up your favourite software.

Mac OS X: The Mac App Store is great for providing all your app updates in one place, but if you'd prefer not to use it, free app AppFresh will keep all your downloaded apps updated from one single window.

The new Mac App Store can be automatically searched when you click on a file your Mac doesn't recognise. But if you want to see what apps can handle certain extensions yourself, you can do that, too.

With the release of the Mac App Store, Apple's trying to bring iOS-like changes to the Mac OS X desktop. Is this a good thing? In a lot of ways, yes — here's why.

Apple launched the Mac App Store today, allowing you to browse, search, read reviews and buy Mac software of all kinds in one streamlined location. And it's terrible. Here's why.