From the start of the App Store, Apple has been fuzzy on what’s allowed and what is not.  Many developers have strayed away due to Apple not allowing many programs which  "duplicate functionality" of their own apps onto the precious iPhone experience.  Apple is now allowing new browsers and hopefully will give way to Opera, Firefox and others and we can finally get Flash support. For now, this is good news, but we will have to wait and see exactly what Apple allows to go onto its App Store.  Here’s to an even brighter future…

- Edge Browser (Free) – No loss of screen real estate to the address or navigation bars.
- Incognito ($1.99) – Now you can browse without leaving a history of any kind.
- WebMate:Tabbed Browser ($0.99) – Web Mate simplifies browsing by queuing up all the links you click on, then allowing you to view them one by one when you’re ready. 
- Shaking Web ($1.99) – adds a sophisticated algorithm to compensate for small hand shaking to allow for easier reading.

[Mac Rumors]

  If you’ve been waiting for that new MacBook or perhaps just a new Mac in general, now is your chance to get the deals you were waiting for.  The deals are not yet live on Apple’s own site, but are active at MacMall and Best Buy.  Apple says they will be price matching as well, so you may just want to go that route.

[via Mac Rumors]

  The one thing many of us have wanted from their iPhone which other smart phones offer, is a way to connect your phone to a laptop and use ita internet connection.  There was one app which made an attempt at this, Netshare.  That app was quickly shut down by Apple (AT&T?).  So now comes comfirmation via the AT&T CEO, Ralph De La Vega, that tethering is coming to the iPhone.  All we can say is, it’s about time.  Mac Rumors also believes the tethering ability will be in the 2.2 firmware update.

[MacRumors] via [MobileCrunch]

  The MacBooks being released later today have a few confirmations from Daring Fireball we thought we would share:

1.  The trackpad on the MacBook and the MacBook Pro are indeed buttonless and are interestingly made of glass.

2.  MacBook Air will be updated with a 120GB drive or a 128GB SSD.

3.  MacBook and MacBook Pro will be available with a Glossy-only screen

4.  The new MacBooks containNVIDIA 9400M GPUs. MacBook Pros will also contain a dedicated 9600M GT GPU for enhanced performance.

5.  The $899 MacBook is actually just a display of 24 inches, not the cheaper notebook.

6.  CPU’s will stay close in speed to what they are now.

Finally there suposedly will only be 2 price points, not a ton as we showed you earlier:

- $1299: 2.0 GHz, 2 GB memory, 160 GB disk
- $1499: 2.4 GHz, 2 GB memory, 250 GB disk

The glass trackpad is quite interesting.  This should be a very interesting day for the new MacBooks.  With all the new SKU’s of earlier, we wonder what else Apple has in store for us.

[via Mac Rumors]

  This rumor is pretty much a given or will be at some point.  Kevin Rose has let it slip that the new MacBooks coming on Tuesday will have the option of a Blu-ray drive.  This was said during a live recording of Diggnation and there is no reason to doubt this claim.  We have had claims of support in the next update of OS X and since Blu-ray is the winning format this is only the logical next step for movies and storage on the Mac.

We’ll have all the details on Tuesday and what they intend to call this new drive.  The Super, Super Drive?

[Edible Apple] via [Mac Rumors]