You know the drill, come 6pm PT, 9pm ET, 2am BST, we’ll be live over at:

http://live.tipb.com/live/

We’ll be discussing Steve Jobs’ surprise appearance on the Apple Q4 conference call, what he said about BlackBerry and Android, and Apple’s Back to the Mac event. Be there, and be ready to chat. We want to hear from you.

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Right after Apple released FaceTime for Mac beta, Dieter grabbed his iPhone 4 and called me up on my MacBook. The video above shows the results. It worked well and looked good.

FaceTime for Mac is incredibly barebones right now, almost no UI chrome or options but we’ll see what happens come release. The ability to stay in contact, visually, from any iOS or Mac OS device is compelling, but it would be even better if Apple released a Windows version. Let’s hope that’s coming soon.

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As promised by Steve Jobs during Apple’s Back to the Mac event, FaceTime for Mac beta is now up on Apple.com and available for download:

FaceTime for Mac makes it possible to talk, smile, wave, and laugh with anyone on an iPhone 4, iPod touch, or Mac from your Mac over Wi-Fi. So you can catch up, hang out, joke around, and stay in touch with just a click. Sure, it's great to hear a voice. But it's even better to see the face that goes with it.

Grab it at http://www.apple.com/mac/facetime/ We’re downloading now and testing it out, and when you do let us know how it works for you!

[apple.com, thanks pinhodaniel]

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As part of the Back to the Mac event, Steve Jobs wondered what would happen if a a MacBook and iPad hooked up and the answer is the new MacBook Air. It’s full unibody, full keyboard, full trackpad. Instant on. Great battery life. Great standby time. There will be both 13.3 inch and 11.6 inch models.

• 1440×900 display or 1366x 768
• Core 2 Duo
• NVidia graphics
• FaceTime camera
• Flash storage
• 7 hours Wi-Fi use (under better battery tests) or 5 hours for 11.6 inch
• 30 days standbye
• 802.11n Wi-Fi

Pricing starts at $999 for 11.6, 64GB, 1.4Ghz. All models are 2GB of memory standard. [Update: but you can upgrade to 4GB! W00t!]

Available today.

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Steve Jobs today gave a hint at the future of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, and that future is… iOS and iPad!

• Multitouch gestures
• App Store
• App home screens (with Folders)
• Full screen apps
• Auto save
• Apps resume when launched

It’s not going to be a multitouch Mac. Jobs says Apple tried it but vertical touch surfaces are tiring and don’t work. That’s why Apple has made multitouch trackpads for laptops, and Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad for desktops. That’s how they’re going to do multitouch.

Mac App Store won’t be exclusive but Jobs thinks it will be the best. Same 70/30 developer split, one click downloads, free and paid, auto instal, auto updates, licensed for use on all your personal macs.

LaunchPad will be the homescreen for Macs.

Mission Control will unify Spaces, Exposé, Dashboard, full screen apps.

Screenshots after the break. And check out Apple.com’s new Mac OS X 10.7 Lion page for more.

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As part of the Back to the Mac event, Steve Jobs has just announced FaceTime for Mac. The interface is bare bones, a naked QuickTime X-like UI but it does full screen, and it works as simply as FaceTime for iOS. (Which Jobs also announced they’ve shipped on 19 million devices to date).

Beta release for Mac today. No word on FaceTime for Windows yet.

More as this develops.

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Apple’s busy doing their Back to the Mac demo, and call us crazy but it looks like there’s a FaceTime icon lurking in the dock?

Could Apple be about to show off FaceTime for Mac? We’ll know very soon.

[Thanks guest!]

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Today Apple brings us their Back to the Mac event. Join us for our traditional meta-live blog, chocked full of coverage, color, and commentary. We’ll get started just before 1pm ET, 10am PT.

Note: Apple is live streaming the event live via Apple.com. It’s using HTTP live streaming, however, which means iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Mac only. (No Windows support yet). So open them in another browser window and watch along with us!

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Here it is, PwnageTool 4.1 for Mac OS X, and it’s good to go for Apple TV (2010), iPad 3.2.2, iPod touch (2010), iPod touch (2009), iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, and iPhone 3G.

PwnageTool allows you to restore to a custom IPSW file. For instance, you can restore to a pre-jailbroken firmware while simultaneously maintaining your current baseband (and thus your ultrasn0w carrier unlock). You can also add whatever packages you want in the "Expert" mode of Pwnage

Apple TV is obviously a big addition here:

Welcome to the JB family! Right now, about all you can do is command-line stuff via ssh. You also have afc2 available, so you can use tools like ifunbox to move files around. These are the very early days of AppleTV 2G jailbreaking, so it'll take some time for JB app developers to come up with methods to use your AppleTV 2G from the remote, versus the command line. PS: Your ssh password is "alpine"…please change it when you can

As always, proceed at your own risk, but if you try it out, let us know how it works for you.

[Dev-Team Blog]

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As expected, the Apple Online Store is down. It will no doubt come back up with wondrous new products announced at the Back to the Mac event, kicking off in an hour.

Commence with the guessing on what goes on sale immediately, and what’s teased for release in a week or a month…

[store.apple.com]

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