iCWeekly Episode 150: I Love a Little Conspiracy

Tommy celebrates his birthday, J announces his Hawaii moving day, Rich lambastes any hopes of a Beatles reunion and talks up a Monte Python reunion. We, also, talk about Twitter, a European SOPA and our free software picks... 

SOPA may be dead (for now) in the U.S., but lobby groups are likely to intensify their efforts to export SOPA-like rules to other countries

On Jan. 19, Apple introduced iBooks 2, and garners 350,000 downloads the first 3-days

Twitter has enabled the ability "to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country" - that means CENSOR

Here's how to get around the Twitter CENSOR

Hawaii's legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents

Fran Drescher believes she was abducted by aliens

Facebook files for IPO, raising about $10 billion and valuating at $75 billion

The surviving members of Monty Python have announced they will make a new movie

iWorld 2012 offered a look into the very near future of how musicians will be able to use their Macs and iOS devices to create, perform, or record music

FREE Software Picks:

AfroDJMac has his finger on the pulse of the Justin Bieber action with an Ableton Live Packconsisting of a synthesizer, drum rack, some nasty samples

Developer Oli Larkin has released pMix, a free sound design tool for Mac OS X that allows you to morph between VST plugin presets

The folks from Nuance Communications, the provider of Dragon voice recognition, have released their free iPad notes app – PaperPort Notes

We look forward to seeing you again next week. Until then...

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