Regardless of how the whole G4 megahertz issue shakes out, there's one thing that's almost 100% certain to grace His Steveness's keynote address tomorrow: news of upgrades to iTools, Apple's suite of Internet goodies that was first unveiled at the San Francisco Macworld Expo last year. You may recall that at the time, Steve referred to the quartet of Mac.com email, KidSafe, HomePage, and iDisk as "the first four iTools," clearly implying that more were on the way. We have no idea whether or not Apple's going to introduce any new iTools tomorrow, but we are pretty sure that, at the very least, Steve will tell us about some improvements to the existing iDisk component.

How can we be so sure, you ask? Well, for one thing, there are the omens. A two-headed black Dogcow calf was born in Cupertino under the last full moon. A blood-red owl stole our Magic 8-Ball and returned it three nights later with a series of arcane runes scratched into its base. And to our trained eyes, our tea leaves and soy-based mock goat entrails are unquestionably foretelling some sort of extension to the iDisk's intended purpose. Of course, if you're incurably skeptical or less skilled than us in the mystical art of divination, you can always fall back on the little fact that several iTools members (such as faithful viewer David Marcantonio) have already noticed changes to their iDisks, well in advance of the impending Stevenote. (We'd consider that cheating, of course, and so would that psychic Jamaican lady on TV.)

Nonetheless, the truth is out; some (but not all) iDisks were modified over the course of the past few days, and now include several new folders that most decidedly were not placed there by the iDisks' registered owners. X Appeal.org has a screenshot of the mysterious new visitors: a "Software" folder at the root level of the iDisk itself, and two folders within: "Apple Software" and "Mac OS X Software." Yes, kiddies, Apple appears to be taking the next step forward in the realm of software distribution: seamless delivery from within the Mac Finder itself. Once your iDisk is updated with this latest modification, you'll be able to download any number of Apple and third-party software packages without even needing to fire up a web browser. Nifty, hmmmm?

So far, viewers report that the Mac OS X Software folder pretty much echos Apple's Mac OS X Downloads page, so don't expect to find anything exclusive on your iDisk-- this is essentially just an alternate distribution method. But it shows that Apple's putting some thought into the further integration of Internet connectivity right into the Mac experience, and that's what we'd classify as a Good Thing. Now all Apple needs to do is figure out a way to let us download a pizza via Mac OS X and we'll be happy.