Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has announced over 100 million apps have been downloaded from the Mac App Store in under one year. The Mac App Store has thousands of free and paid apps, which you have access to with your iTunes username and password.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is preparing to wind down boxed retail software from their stores. Apple prefers that customers now buy Mac software from the Mac App Store. The products that will no longer be available for purchased in the form of boxed software includes iWork ’09, Aperture 3, iLife ’11, Apple Remote Desktop, and Jam Packs for Garageband. [AppleInsider]

Twitter has updated their Mac application to support multiple timelines and auto-complete. The Twitter Mac application now also has a cleaner design. There is now a separate “New Tweet” button in the app. You can click back to see previous pages of the timeline from the client. Twitter added auto-complete of usernames and hashtags to the app making it easier to send out tweets and replies. [Mac App Store Link]

In the latest build of Mac OS X Lion, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has built an easy way to delete applications that have been downloaded on the Mac App Store. The uninstallation will be similar to iOS. By clicking and holding on an icon, it will make the icon jiggle. An X will appear while the icon is jiggling to uninstall the application. [MacRumors]

According to a source with CultOfMac, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is working on testing out near-field communications technology on a few prototype iPhones and Macs. The source does not know whether Apple will integrate NFC into the iPhone 5 or not. One of the key components of Apple’s use of NFC is the Mac App Store.

StreamToMe is a free Mac application that is available in the Mac App Store. The app can play video, music, and photo files over WiFi or 3G from your Mac or Windows PC. You can stream over the Internet from your Mac or PC to wherever you have a Mac running StreamToMe. Media bitrates are adjusted based on your Internet connection. StreamToMe does not play back DRM-protected audio or video formats. You can download it from here [Mac App Store link]. [Lifehacker]

Pixelmator, a photo editing software that sells for about $30 per download, has made $1 million from the Mac App Store in only 20 days. The photo editing application has also received some positive reviews on the Mac App Store. The company has an average of 4.5 stars with over 275 ratings in the U.S. store.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) launched to the public yesterday and they hit 1 million downloads in one day. The Mac App Store currently has about 1,000 free and paid apps. “We’re amazed at the incredible response the Mac App Store is getting,” stated Apple CEO Steve Jobs. “Developers have done a great job bringing apps to the store and users are loving how easy and fun the Mac App Store is.”