~ DigiTimes is saying Apple is getting ready to release an ultra high-resolution MacBook pro during the second quarter of 2012. The display will be 2880 X 1800 upping the competitors in the netbook industry. Who would want any other laptop if it didn’t have Apple’s patented “Retina” display abilities?

~ Thanks to Tim Cooke, the man behind Apple’s ability to corner the market on hard drives long ago, Apple is left relatively unscathed by the recent lack of hard drives available to the PC industry.

Gay News …

~ Rosie sends Gaydar gun to Michelle Bachmann to point at her husband:

~ GOP Senators block confirmation of Mari Carmem Aponte, Obama’s pick for Ambassador to El Salvador. They did it because she wrote an editorial in June supporting Gay Pride. Do everything you have in your power to throw Republicans out of office. These people are sick bastards.

~ Apple to purchase Anobit an Israel-based flash storage semiconductor company for $400-500 million. This would make Apple’s first acquisition in Israel and the first with Tim Cook at the helm of Apple as CEO. It looks like Tim has decided to take over the flash memory industry from Samsung.

~ Apple updated iTunes yesterday. Hit your Software Update buttons or check for new updates directly through iTunes. v10.5.1 adds several improvements to iTunes Match and fixes an audio distortion issued with certain CDs.

~ Apple drops iOS 5.1 Beta 2 today which will now enable Photo Stream Photo deletion. Many iCloud users have held off hitting the “stream my photos” button because it was discovered once uploaded, the user was unable to delete a photo.

~ iOS concept designer Jan-Michael Cart has been hired by Apple to an Intern position. Cart has designed concepts for the iOS system like dynamic icons and widget implementation.

~ iTunes Store has gone live across 16 Latin American countries and gives Brazil iTunes Match.

Gay News …

~ 5 Things you didn’t know about NPH: 1. He grew up in New Mexico and attended the same high school in Albuquerque as actor Freddie Prinze Jr. 2. His first acting gig was playing Toto in an elementary school production of The Wizard of Oz. 3. Both of his parents are lawyers. 4. He is an amateur magician, and 5. Is known for guzzling Red Bull on the set of How I Met Your Mother and Redbull has given him a lifetime supply of the beverage.

~ Congress has dropped the anti-gay provisions that weighed down the upcoming Defense Bill. Well, all but sodomy. Legally guys can’t be porkin in the service.

~ The Vietnam vet who confronted Mitt Romney yesterday over military benefits for his husband said he did it only because it is unfair that other spouses of veterans are entitled to military benefits but his isn’t. Romney is, of course, an ass.

~ Mayor Joyce Daniels of Troy, Michigan, gets an earful from a lesbian mother and her children over the Mayor’s derogatory remark about “queers” on her Facebook page. Residents want the newly elected Mayor removed from office. Watch …

~ The ITC is expected to rule on Apple’s claim that Android software violates Apple’s patents. It is a big day for Apple.

~ 13 “Must Have” iPhone Apps: The Weather Channel, Tap Tap Revenge 4, Angry Birds Seasons Free, Twitter, Fruit Ninja Lite, Groupon, Angry Birds Rio Free, Netflix, Skype, Angry Birds Free, Words With Friends, Pandora Radio and Facebook.

~ The most popular Apple Rumors: The iPad 3 is going to be thicker than the iPad 2 (but not by much). iMacs will be updated to play TV. Apple will expand the powers of Siri. Apple will offer 3D Kinect Controls for the Mac.

~ Best Selling Book “Steve Jobs” has now become the best selling book of all of 2011.

~ The Mac App Store has had more than 100 million downloads of Mac apps.

~ iPad 3 expected to be available and early as February and no later than April, 2012.

~ A number of right-wing anti-gay groups have filed initiatives to repeal California LGBT Education Law. They are determined to stop schools from educating students about gay history. Will it work? Let’s hope not.

~ The inventor of the Segway, Dean Kamen, has come out fighting to keep same-sex marriage legal in New Hampshire.

~ Gay Homecoming King Johnny Robinson, posts a video to support bullying victim Jonah Mowry:

~ The NBA, the National Basketball Association, has voted to add sexual orientation protections for players and employees making the league a more welcoming place for any openly gay player.