It should be a no-brainer prediction that one of the high-capacity optical formats will be included in an impending iteration of iMac (nice alliteration, huh?) or other new Mac, but its still anyone’s guess which of the two warring standards Steve-O will side with, and we won’t likely know until the next Macworld Keynote. (Blu-Ray is emerging as the dominant format, but you never really know with notorious contrarian Jobs.) But for those portable Mac users with ginormous storage needs, you don’t have to wait (well, maybe a month): Fastmac’s got a solution.

Fastmac announced yesterday their new slim, low-profile, slot-loading 2x Blu-Ray burner upgrade for Mac laptops. Now Mac users can enjoy burning 50GB worth of files at twice the speed, or watch a growing number commercially available BD movies like PS3 owners can.

The new burner is also Adobe certified, and supports Blu-Ray video disk authoring on Mac OS X. It works with the following models:

iBook G4
iMac G5
iMac Intel
MacBook Pro (17-inch)
Mac mini
PowerBook G3 Pismo
PowerBook G4 Titanium (667 Mhz or higher)
PowerBook G4 Aluminum

The burner works with Roxio Toast 8 Titanium or Adobe Premiere CS3 for Macs. It’ll be shipping within the month but is already available for pre-order on the FastMac site for a cool US$1K special introductory offer.

(Crossposted on Mobile Philippines)

Now we’ve seen everything. In a effort to squeeze every last drop of revenue from a fading product, manufacturers are thinking up all sorts of last-minute gimmicks to make a sale. See the neoprene iPod shuffle Watch Style Case from USB Fever. Comes in the usual colors, and gives you access to all the controls and ports of the player even while it’s in the case.

I just wonder how inconvenient it would be to have the earphone cable dangling from your wrist to your ears, in the way of nearly everything. In fact, I wonder about the wisdom of creating such a wearable casing for something that’s eminently wearable by itself via the built-in-clip. You can attach it to nearly everything on you, from a baseball cap, headband, shirt pocket, hem, collar or sleeve, or even your darned earlobe, so why would you need this thing? Attach it to your shirt cuff if that’s what all you want done.

But hey, different strokes for different folks, right? Shipping is free worldwide from USB Fever when you order it for US$10. Get ‘em while they’re, uh, hot.

If you’ve got the funds for it, accessorize your iPhone with an Audi.

Audi has announced that it will be supporting the iPhone in the Audi Music Interface system in their A5, A6, A8 and Q7 line of cars in the United States. These models will allow iPhone users to make calls (or reject them) totally hands-free, and check signal strength and scan through their iPhone directory from the Audi’s dashboard via a Bluetooth connection.

All the other usual iPod functions from the iPhone will likewise be available through the same interface system. Audi UK is looking to follow suit, as soon as the iPhone becomes available there sometime in December.

Another reason to get an Audi.

Wassup? Apparently, this: a UK-based company has made a line of hooded sweatshirts, not for you but - for your iPod.

Odd but true, these iPod hoodies from ipodhoodies.com (what else?) are for your full-sized, nano or mini, and come plain or with artwork. Shuffle owners are SOL for now.

They are available online at this site, and go for US$20 to US$27.

For those cold days, or days when you just want your iPod to look cool.

…that you can use that ittybitty white remote control that came with your Mac to run your Keynote presentation?

I certainly didn’t. In fact I almost never use the darn thing because I’m always within arm’s reach of the Mac and the remote’s practically useless to me. But I do give presentations now and then using Keynote and that simple, obvious thing never occurred to me. (Then again I’m not the sort to pore through a manual in detail because I have the common geek arrogance that I don’t need to.)

Pressing play starts the presentation, forward and back moves you through the slides, and up and down controls the volume. Holding down play sends the Mac to sleep.

Check out the video on the Apple Small Business Quick Tip of The Week here.