MacBreak Weekly 16

More Apple Cel Phone, Why Apple Doesn't License OSX to PCs, Zune is tired but Subscriptions are cool, Super HD Streaming

• It seems like Odeo does not have a direction.
• Apple is rumored to release two iPhone models, one centered around iChat and messaging.
• Bill O' Reilly says that iPods are endangering America.
• The English 24-hour Al-Jazeera is using Apple technology everywhere.
• Watch the video of the English Al-Jazeera launch
• There are already numerous videos of english Al-Jazeera news broadcasts.
• Britney Spears has taken K-Fed off her MySpace top friends.
• Apple shares have reached an all-time high.
• Apparently, OSX Leopard has been hacked to run on non-Macintosh PCs.
• The Microsoft Zune Pass is a great system to get all the music you want.
• eMusic Live distributes legal, bootleg USB keychains with recordings of a concert minutes after the concert is over.
• Apple is working with Purdue University to test transmission of a 2-minute movie streamed at 7.5 gigabits/second at a size of 4096x3072.
• Fiber technology is being spread all around Rwanda.
• We are waiting for the next VMWare beta.
• Windows Vista will be released on January 30, 2007.
• Merlin likes ChronoSync for synchronization purposes.

Picks

• Scott: Download stock sound effects and royalty-free music on SoundRangers.com
• Merlin: Queue up a large number of files to download and manage them over time by using Speed Download.
• Alex: Diagram your projects using OmniGraffle. Similar applications include Mindjet Mindmanager and SeeMap.
• Leo: Expand your abbreviations as you type using TypeIt4Me.

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