I’m a Mac addict. I’m on Winter Break. So, you’d better believe I’m watching live coverage of MacWorld in California, the yearly keynote address where Steve Jobs makes the real world seem like the future.

What are folks’ predictions this year? The coveted “iPhone”, HDTV and iTV, a true video full-screen iPod, and a robot named Rosie that does your laundry.

My live reactions:

12:14pm- The Apple Store is down. “We’ll be back soon” is posted on the all too familiar post-it note.

12:17pm- Steve Jobs comes out to address people wearing the same thing he always wears. Black shirt and jeans. I have also considered taking this approach to fashion in my life, but I would just wear overalls and a top hat.

12:20pm- They have sold over 2 billion songs on iTunes. If they had just gone with $1.00 songs instead of 99 cents, they’d have about 20 million more dollars. Pennies add up!

12:26pm- There’s the “iTV” now called Apple TV. $299. Same thing they showed us late last year, but it’s ready now. Some folks suspected that Apple would introduce an actual TV to go with this setup, completing their emergence as a living room entertainment company instead of just personal computers and pocket devices. Instead it’s just a device that acts as a conduit between those realms. Cool for people who already have awesome gigantic TV’s and needed a way to get content on them. Not that interesting for folks like me who usually just watch stuff on their computer screen since it’s bigger than the 13″ dorm room leftover.

12:41pm- Three new products! IPod, Phone, and Mobile Internet Device… “An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator. An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator…. these are NOT three separate devices!” And if you call now, it’ll also be a Foreman Grill?

12:43pm- Woah. So it’s a touch-screen, which means that if they decide to change the buttons in the future because technology gets better, they can just reprogram it as opposed to needing to change the physical structure of the device.

12:48pm- “We’re going to use the best pointing device in the world — our fingers. We have invented a new technology called multi-tuch. It works like magic, you don’t need a stylus, far more accurate than any interface ever shipped, it ignores touches, mutli-finger gestures, and BOY have we patented it!”

12:59pm- My jaw has dropped. I’m ready for the Apple Hoverboard.

1:09pm- It’s still settling in. Video-conferencing on your phone. Widescreen movies. WiFi (VoiP). Bluetooth 2.0. Sync your calendar. Watch voicemails like they were emails. No need to listen to the first 3 messages just to hear the 4th. Google maps is the best. True that.

Full web pages, not the dinky mobile versions. Full email capability, with pictures and sound and all of its technicolor glory.

With a 2 megapixel camera, you can snap photos on the go, which isn’t really revolutionary. But, I’m guessing some incredible applications will be developed so that you can scan bar codes and get instant reviews on books, DVDs, food nutritional information, recipes, restaurant recommendations based on geo-tagging of photos.

Ok. Enough daydreaming about the future. I need to go do something with my day.