MacBreak Weekly 92

WWDC, iPhone II and incentive plans, .Mac, 10.6 seeds, Sydney gets Apple store, syncing, and more.

• Is Mobile Me the new .Mac?
• Box.net has a cool iPhone interface.
• Will the iPhone be subsidised?
• Steve Jobs second most influential man in technology.
• Will we see OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard at WWDC?
• Plans for the first Australian apple store in Sydney have been unveiled.
• Softbank clinches a deal to carry the iPhone in Japan.
• Hutchinson Telecom to carry the iPhone in Hong Kong and Macau.
• The new Technology, Whiskey, Sexy, Podcast.
• Sync your Mac contacts with Google, in OS X 10.5.3 (This may be an attempt by Apple and Google to explode your addressbook, so back up first).
• The UK and Canada now have iTunes movie rentals, which last 48 hours (vs. 24 hours in the U.S.).
• The aTV Apple TV hack is now available as a download.
• Bokeh is apparently not just a Unix command according to the developer.
• Leo likes Iron Man.

This week's picks:

• Andy Ihnatko: The Flip Video Mino, a slimmer Flip video, $179.99.
• Leo Laporte: The Elgato EyeTV 250, €199, 99.
• Alex Lindsay: Pandora Desktop, via Adobe Air, free.
• Merlin Mann: The Amazon Kindle, for $359.99. See Andy Ihnatko's Kindle review.
• Merlin Mann's free ebook sources: Project Gutenberg, Manybooks.net, Feedbooks.com
• Merlin Mann's Kindle tips: Use save as/mail as .pdf from the print dialogue in Mac OS X to get articles and more on the Kindle, and use .zip files to save money on conversion fees.

Audible pick:

• The Bible
• Visit Audible.com/macbreak to sign up for your free book.

Shownotes by Shash

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