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Letter from Apple CEO Steve Jobs

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It’s a hormone imbalance. I support Steve Jobs in his recovery.

For the first time in a decade, I’m getting to spend the holiday season with my family, rather than intensely preparing for a Macworld keynote. Apple.com


Picasa for Mac now available

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Picasa 3 for Mac is now available. I haven’t been using Picasa in favor of Flickr and me.com. Maybe it’s time for me to explore what Picasa has to offer…


How to roll your own Mac for under $240

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Before you go do this though, make sure to read the entire tutorial at The Useless Ninjas. Then read it again. If you feel challenged to do this project, then proceed by all means!

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Play Game & Watch classics on your iPhone/iPod touch

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My friend Rom, made me aware of these Game & Watch classics at the App Store. If you’d like to try one, why not download Helmet? It’s free.

These classics are brought to us by Aaron Ardiri (who I met in our forum during my Palm days).


2008 Best App Ever Awards

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It’s a long list but it’s great to see some apps that I’ve never heard before. My prediction? Rolando would make a killing.

Starting December 31st, 2008 we’ll take the 5 top nominations in each category and add 5 nominations from our list of iPhone bloggers, developers, and general web-celebrities for each category to come up with 10 nominated apps for each category. In addition, the 10 apps that get the most votes across all categories will compete for the title of Best App Ever. Please come back and vote for your favorite app in each category. BestAppEver


Cash-In on New Year’s App Store deals

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Lots of deals for iPhone apps! The site is newyearappblowout.com so who knows how long it will be up.

Some iPhone developers have come together to offer you discounts on their App Store applications, just in time for the New Year. TUAW


How to unlock your 3G iPhone

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Check CrunchGear’s tutorial if you really, really must unlock your iPhone 3G.


iWork ‘09 goes Cloud

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9to5Mac has posted that iWork ‘09 could be web apps.

This would go nicely with the Apple Einstein (as one of my friends has already called the rumored tablet device).


Large Form iPod Touch To Launch in Fall ‘09

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TechCrunch is saying 7″ to 9″ iPod touch.

OS X, soft keyboard, accelerometer… and App Store support. (and maybe this is where we’ll finally see true cut and paste!) Sign me up for one!


Lugaru shows why game devs should support OS X and Linux

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I love Lugaru (after discovering it at MacHeist). I’d love to try out more quality games now that NVIDIA-powered desktop and portable Macs are available now.

Jeff Rosen of Wolfire Games has an intriguing post up about why developers of videogames like himself should go out of their way to support the OS X and Linux markets. TUAW

UPDATE: I just had to add this quote from the Wolfire blog. Awesome.

This generated the equivalent of like three diggings worth of traffic. We were up to 30 requests / second at its peak and dwarfed any event in the history of our Google Analytics. If we didn’t have a Mac OS X build, we simply wouldn’t have had this opportunity.


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