In this episode of the Apple Universe Podcast, Sam Levin (@samlevin) from the Cool Mac Picks show joins us to talk about some Apple news!

News:

• Apple Announces New iPod shuffle
• Apple to Preview iPhone OS 3.0 on March 17th
• Apple Netbook Touchscreen Rumors Continue
• ‘Premium’ App Store Rumors Revived
• iTunes 8.1 Now Available
• Final Cut Studio Update Due in Late April?

Sam’s Cool Mac/App Pick of the week:

• LaCie iamaKey USB Flash Drive
• AirPhones (iTunes Link)

Review: MiMo Displays
A single USB connection from your computer gets you an instant secondary (tertiary, quaternary, quinary…) display. This awesome display is perfect for your IM client, your email, a spreadsheet, or your Photoshop tools. Not only do these displays enhance productivity, but they look great. The single USB connection combined with a weight of 1.3 pounds means these displays are ultra-portable. Overall, for the size and power, the MiMo is great for a IM window, or Twitter, but with a 24″ monitor at home in my case, I found it not very useful after the different compared to the 24″ monitor.

Don’t forget about Speck’s MacBook Air SeeThru discount!

Host/Executive Producer: Daniel Brusilovsky (@danielbru)
Associate Producer: Sam Levin (@samlevin)
Length: 30:09

Sponsors:

• shinywhitebox – Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!

If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at .

Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.

In this episode of the Apple Universe Podcast, Daniel talks about what got announced at the Apple Media Only “Lets Rock” event.

• iPhone 2.1 Firmware Now Available
• iPhone 2.1 Jailbroken
• PwnageTool and QuickPwn for 2.1 iPhone’s released
• iPhone app sales growing at twice the rate of iTunes music
• iTunes 8 causes Windows Vista BSOD
• Analyst trims Apple estimates, says Air seeing decreased demand
• 2nd Generation iPod Touch Does Work With Microphone
• iTunes 8: HD TV Shows, Grid View, Genius Playlists, NBC
• iPhone Dev Team Portal

This week, Daniel reviewed Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac. Parallels received 4 out of 5 starts on the Apple Universe Podcast!

Sponsors:

• shinywhitebox – Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!
• Skitch – The best screen capture program for the Mac!

If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at .

Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.

If you have noticed, there haven’t been too many episodes coming out. That is going to change very soon. I have 8 new episodes coming out. Most of these are video, so that brings up a problem with the iTunes Feed on MyPodcast.

What I will do is take the audio of the video episodes, because MyPodcast only takes audio, and then post that on iTunes, and have the video here.

Thanks for understanding,

Daniel Brusilovsky
Host and Executive Producer