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This is a repository for all the software “Picks of the Week” made at the end of every episode of the fantabulous podcast MacBreak Weekly.

Episode 43 / June 7, 2007

Guest “The Macalope” picks PandoraJam, an app that takes the songs played for you by the Pandora music service and dumps them tagged into your iTunes. It will also stream music from pandora to an Airport Express and submit them to last.fm.

Merlin Mann brings to our attention the new 3.0 release of NetNewsWire, the popular RSS reader. Merlin says one feature he likes is the clipping service that lets him mark items as he read and, when he’s ready, they’re all ready in a clippings section to be blogged. Another new feature Merlin mentions is that the app displays a thumbnail of the site you’re reading. Leo mentions MarsEdit, which used to be coded by NNW’s Brent Simmons and is now maintained by Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software.

Scott Bourne says the Camino browser has a new 1.5 release. Scott says the reason he like it is that Camino will open sites Safari won’t open, especially Windows-centric site.

Leo Laporte’s pick is ShoZu, an app for your cameraphone that makes it easy to send pictures you’ve just taken to photo hosting sites like flickr. It also makes it easy to upload videos to YouTube. Other unrelated features include contacts backup and videocasting.

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