Tomorrow's the big day-- no, not that big day, the other one. Sure, Steve's not stepping up to the mic until Wednesday, but tomorrow Apple's Chief Money Dude Fred Anderson gets to strut his stuff in his quarterly live conference call with the analysts of Wall Street. Now, if you're sitting there stewing in regret that you pursued a career in the basket-weaving profession instead of donning a thousand-dollar suit and watching stocks rise and fall for a living, relax-- the 'net has broken down the barriers of class and career alike, and that means you can listen in on that fateful call yourself. All you need is QuickTime 4 and an Internet connection, the presence of mind to tune in to smilin' Fred's face at 5PM EDT, and voilà; you'll be sharing the line with people who spend more on bottled water and designer capuccino every day than you earn in a week. Ain't technology grand?

As for what we'll hear from good ol' Fred, hey, that's anybody's guess-- but a few of the more knowledgeable pundits are voicing their two cents' worth. The Motley Fool seems positive overall, predicting that Apple will "meet or exceed Wall Street's consensus earnings estimate" despite "soft" revenue growth due to the falloff of iMac sales. That's because the Fool thinks Apple's "improved gross margins" will make up for the iMac shortfall. Sounds good to us. And the ever-insightful Eric Yang over at AAPL Investors concurs; lower revenue, but earnings that meet or beat the estimates-- and he backs it all up with honest-to-goodness numbers. Sounds like Apple's going to have another solid quarter under its belt.

Don't forget, this is your very last chance to register your guess in the Beat The Analysts contest and see if you've got what it takes to show those hoity-toity Wall Street types that they ain't so tough. So research Apple's past performance, build complex mathematical predictive models using advanced economics and chaos theory, and then guess that Apple's Q3 profit will miraculously equal your social security number. You could win fame and fortune-- or, at least a mention on AtAT and a cheesy prize from the Baffling Vault of Antiquity™. You have until 10 PM EDT tonight to enter Sadly, the AtAT crew will miss the conference call tomorrow, since we'll be on a train to the Big Apple at the time, but we'll get caught up once we make it to the hotel-- and the results will be posted shortly thereafter. Now get guessin'!