In an open letter to Apple fans Monday, Steve Jobs revealed that he’s being treated for a hormone imbalance that has contributed to his rapid weight loss, but says he plans to remain Apple’s CEO for the foreseeable future.

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Apple’s said it’s taking a break from adding flashy features to OS X to focus on the foundations and stability of the system with Snow Leopard, and this latest leaked screenshot might indicate that those foundations are moving to 64…

Apple’s broadening of App Store acceptances has opened the door to a number of new novelty applications including InfoMedia’s iFart Mobile. The $0.99 humor application has rapidly seen success and has rocketed up to the #1 App Sales slot.

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It’s the holiday season, the season of giving, and the people behind MacHeist are giving away a bundle of free applications through the Mac Giving Tree. It’s simply a case of signing up and returning on Christmas Day to receive…

Apple’s next-generation iMacs and Mac minis will adopt the same NVIDIA chipset platform found at the heart of the company’s most recent notebook overhaul, new findings confirm once over.

A member of the InsanelyMac forums was recently rifling through the extension…

Apple has released two new Get a Mac ads with holiday themes, “Tree Trimming” and “I Can Do Anything.” Both videos are animated in a style reminiscent of the stop-motion technique employed by the original Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV…

A newer beta version of Firefox adds multi-touch support, Mozilla has announced. For owners of MacBooks with multi-touch trackpads—new and old—Firefox 3.2 beta 2 includes a variety of supported gestures, mainly swipes. Swiping left and right with three fingers will…

On Wednesday night, Apple released equal pairs of EFI and SMC firmware fixes for all of the new, late 2008 MacBook models to tackle problems with their reliability and power indicators.

The updates for the regular 13-inch MacBook (EFI, SMC), MacBook…

Apple’s latest-generation MacBook Pro systems may face the same material defect in their dedicated graphics hardware as encountered by earlier models, according to an investigation by the Inquirer. A dissection of the GeForce 9600M chip shows the part using the…

Apple has filed for patents on two different liquid cooling technologies, both intended to apply to future notebooks. Current MacBooks use air cooling, driven by internal fans; while this is sufficient, it is thought that future components — such as…

Where would Apple be without the Apple Store? This nostalgic video features Steve Jobs unveiling the Apple store concept back in 2001, offering a unique Jobsian style preview of the original Apple retail store design. It’s surreal to see the…

MacMall has announced their Black Friday sale which will runs from now until midnight P.T. on Friday, November 28th. Last year’s MacMall sale delivered some of the largest discounts available online. This year, however, MacMall faces stiff competition…

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Great news for those of you out there trying to get your flicks onto your iPod. Open Source Handbrake now accepts just about any type of file for input. That means DIVX AVI’s, WMF’s and ASF files are all fair game…

The US Patent Office today published two Apple patent filings that reveal the company having researched a unique head-tracking display technology designed to replicate the theater experience. Noting that watching a fixed view on a screen may be tiring, the…

Apple has released new “Get a Mac” TV ads in an attempt to counter recent Microsoft efforts at boosting the public image of Windows. In the first of the ads, which are now available online, PC (John Hodgman) is shown…

Apple’s new line of MacBooks and MacBook Pros are already arriving at retail stores across the world. Featuring an aluminum unibody enclosure, glossy LED backlight display and glass trackpad, users will find plenty new to love and hate. Both systems…

With the release of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro models Apple’s online store has reduced the price on their previous generation portable Mac models. The 2.1GHz MacBook with 1GB of memory and 120GB hard drive is now available for…

Continuing the stream of last minute reports and confirming our earlier report, Apple will indeed introduce MacBook Pros as well as MacBooks at Tuesday morning’s event: the new laptops will feature a single buttonless (but clickable) glass trackpad. According to…

Facebook has updated their native iPhone app to version 2.0 today. The long awaited update brings a number of new features to the popular social networking application. New features include notifications, people search, full news feed, and much more.

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Apple today released iPhone 2.2 firmware into a first stage of beta testing, according to Gear Live. Background push notification is rumored to have returned in this version; Apple pulled background push from the fourth beta of v2.1, and left…