Bites from the Apple: Come What May

As I seem to be on my death bed with consumption (a la Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge), I'll keep this week's round-up of Apple-y goodness brief and to the point.

• Here's a shocker--the announcement of the 3G iPhone is confirmed by anonymous sources to Gizmodo to be happening on June 9, the opening day of the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Who could have guessed?

• Piper Jaffray senior analyst Gene Munster believes the upcoming 3G iPhone will be fairly identical to the original model, though a bit thicker to accommodate the 3G chip. He sees more "dramatic changes" (i.e., multiple models) next January (via AppleInsider)

• Fortune paints the globe apple red, noting the countries that the iPhone will be invading soon

• Will we see over-the-air (OTA) music downloads when 3G comes to the iPhone? Will anybody care?

• And the latest iPhone OS 2.0 beta hints at geotagging support (via IntoMobile)

• Dan Frakes at Macworld sets out to build his own DIY iPod stereo system (complete with dock, amplifier, speakers)

• If you're interested in hacking your Apple TV in order to watch non-supported video codecs like DivX, but you're not too adept at hacking, TUAW points us to the aTV Flash, a USB flash drive that can be inserted into the Apple TV and does all the dirty work.

• If a Twitter user tweets when your screen saver comes on, how will you be able to respond quickly and pithily? With the Status Screen Saver, you can follow along with your Twitter feed as you twiddle your thumbs watching your screen saver. It can also display RSS feeds and show how many unread emails are piling up (via TUAW).

• Wired reports on Forrester Research's look into Apple's future (2013, to be exact) and sees digital frames and a networked clock orbeting the "venerable Macintosh."

• I'll leave you with this extended mega-mix of the recently released Sad Song commercial in the Get a Mac ad series. I'll be back next week. Hopefully.

--Agen G.N. Schmitz