MacBreak Weekly 26

Apple's Super Bowl commercial, iPhone sales predictions, and the buck ninety nine upgrade...

• Apple's profit has risen 78% and iPod sales have reached 21 million.
• Create a phony portfolio on Marketocracy.
• When Leo goes on Regis and Kelly, he will be presenting Parallels.
• Apple will air the a Super Bowl ad that will announce the Beatles on iTunes.
• There are debates online whether LG stole the design for the KE850 from the iPhone.
• Predictions for iPhone sales by 2008: Leo-2 million, Alex-18 million, Scott-10 million, Merlin-21 million.
• Apple has included 802.11n chips in the new Core 2 Duo machines, but to receive the patch upgrade, they will have to charge you for $1.99 for accounting purposes.
• Apple may begin to charge OS X Tiger users for the final version of Boot Camp.
• Apparently, Jim Allchin stated that they should have teamed up with Apple for an mp3 player.
• Microsoft has sold hundreds of thousands of Zunes, compared to the 21 million iPods.
• Australian economists have created an iPod index.
• France, Norway, and Germany have joined forces against Apple's DRM.

Picks

• Alex: Add extra features or unlock hidden features in OSX with TinkerTool.
• Scott: The sE 2200a is an all in one microphone device.
• Leo: Post what you're up to on Twitter and keep track of your friends there with Twitterrific. Also, Icon Factory has an iPhone icon.
• Merlin: There is now a fix for the securityd process hogging RAM when reauthorizing apps' Keychain access. Also, High Priority will post in your menubar your latest iCal tasks.

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