I didn’t know Rush Limbaugh is a Mac user, until I found myself at a page on his site where he’s complaining about Mac OS X 10.5 bugs [link thanks to Keef]. Fair enough, we all complain. But then something caught my eye:

So I’m asking these guys during the break, “Do you think I ought to put out a plea to Steve Jobs? I know he’s politically opposite of me, but just to say, “Mr. Jobs, please, I just ordered six brand-new Mac Pros: four for me and two as gifts; maxed out, Blu-ray drives. I’ve loaded ‘em up. Our whole office here is Mac, and I just want it to work because I love them — and these two things that aren’t working would seem to me, as a novice, to be a simple fix, but they’re not.”

[my bold]

I’m usually pretty up-to-date on Mac configurations, and sure enough, when I went to the Apple Store to check on the nagging possibility that Blu-ray drives had been introduced for Macs without my knowledge, there’s no Blu-ray drive options on Mac Pros, or any Macs for that matter.

So either Rush is full of (yet more) hot air, or there’s a Mac pilot program for celebrities, and he’s in it.

MacRumors notes a new id string for the next MacBook Pro has started to leak out of Cupertino. It’s been many months (June 2007) since the MBPs were updated, so this signals what many anticipated happening soon anyway.

Questions: will it have a fancy new touchpad ala MacBook Air? Will it have greater screen resolution than current models?

[by Silvarios] [taken from Dear lord: iCab 4.0.0 beta!]

Warning, it’s going to take a fair bit of words to get my point across. Here’s the modern web attention span version. iCab 4.0.0 beta has been released to registered iCab users. It is a universal binary and requires Mac OS 10.3.9, while some features require 10.4 or 10.5. Version 4.0 of iCab is a complete rewrite in Cocoa as compared to version 3.0 which was built with Carbon. Version 4.0 uses WebKit and the older versions use the proprietary iCab rendering engine. Here’s a screenshot from the iCab 4.0.0 beta:

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This guy received an email from Other World Computing:

Thank you for your patience regarding your order for the Modbook OS X
Tablet Solution. This e-mail is to inform you that the product is nearly
ready to ship and that new configuration options are now available. As
of the latest available information from Axiotron, we anticipate being
able to ship your Custom configured Modbook solution on or before
January 11th, 2008. On a first in, first out basis - Modbooks are
expected to begin shipping on or before January 8th, 2007.

As is our standard policy, we do not charge your credit card for an
order prior to it shipping. While your credit card will be authorized
when it goes into build, no charge will occur until the day it is shipped.

Could it be this thing sees the light of day? Will Apple beat OWC to the punch by releasing its own tablet PC at MacWorld in 3 weeks?
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I stumbled upon an Apple Developer Connection email, or as they spelled it at the time, “A P P L E    D E V E L O P E R    C O N N E C T I O N” from January 10, 2003. It is stamped Issue 332, and it appeared just after MacWorld. Enjoy:

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MACWORLD ANNOUNCEMENTS
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[1] Mac OS X Adoption Soars With More Than 5 Million Users

Apple is entering 2003 with more than 5 million active Mac OS X
users and more than 5,000 native Mac OS X applications. This year
also marks the first “All Mac OS X” Macworld Expo with every
developer on the show floor featuring Mac OS X products.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/jan/07macosx.html

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[2] Apple Introduces X11 for Mac OS X

X11 for Mac OS X allows X11-based applications to run side-by-side
with native Mac OS X applications on the same desktop and makes it
even simpler to port X11-based applications to the Mac. Apple’s
implementation of X11, the common windowing environment for UNIX
operating systems, is easy to install and is optimized to take full
advantage of Apple’s innovative Quartz graphics system.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/jan/07×11.html

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[3] Apple Delivers AirPort Extreme 802.11g Wireless Networking

AirPort Extreme is the next generation of Wi-Fi wireless networking
technology based on the new ultra-fast 802.11g standard. With speeds
up to 54 Mbps, AirPort Extreme delivers almost five times the data
rate of 802.11b based products, yet is fully compatible with the
millions of 802.11b Wi-Fi devices around the world.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/jan/07airportextreme.html

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