MacMembraneThere are peels everywhere…

Daring Fireball: “The iPhone without Flash only compares badly against an imaginary iPhone with Flash, not any actual existing competing phone.”

Billed as a maid for your Macintosh and complete with a feather duster icon, Hazel by Noodlesoft automates entirely the business of keeping your Mac pristinely organized. Here’s how I’ve set it up.

The maker of the excellent utility, Hazel, has published a candid write up of his experience participating in the Mac update bundle. Though there is some pointed criticism of bundle participation, most importantly, that the lion’s share of the profits go to the promoters, the developer seems to have found the overall experience beneficial.

Hardware test gives you the lowdown on the physical state of your Mac. On the newest models - MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and MacBook - holding down D during boot up will enter your machine into Hardware Test without needing a disk. Good to know.

TUAW reminds readers of the utility MultiFireFox 2.0, which allows users to run multiple versions of Firefox (good for web devs and those who need some plugin for FF that isn’t currently supported by the newest release).

Wicked Mail.app icons from Japanese designer Taichi Nishida. Via Hawk Wings.

Delish is a Del.icio.us client that downloads high-res webpage snapshots of your entire Del.icio.us library displays them in a dedicated window. It’s really beautiful.

Daring Fireball’s take on upgrading to the iPhone 3G: “So what it boils down to is whether you think it’s worth $199 up front — plus $15 extra per month for the new data plan with SMS — for faster cell network data.” Some well considered reasoning to come to this conclusion.

Pixels are Hot: “Consider a popular driving intersection in your town. You know, the one where cars race by most times of the day, and at least two corners of the intersection, on opposite sides of the road, are occupied by a gas station. Each business sells a similar product, for an extremely similar price. [...]

Firefox 3 is ready for download! I’ve been trying to get in now on and off for about an hour, and seems that their servers finally regained traction. Go now to help them set a world record for most downloads in a single day.

Iris is a new layer based image editor for OS X Leopard. It looks pretty and costs 79$, but it has to compete with both Pixelmator and Acorn. We’ll see how that goes.

From Cult of Mac: “For $99, anyone can have world-leading syncing of their entire digital lives. There’s just one problem: you have to use Apple’s Web applications to do that. No GMail, no Flickr, no GCal, no Facebook. Rather than delivering on the promise of automating the process of keeping every aspect of your [...]

Considered article by LonelySandwich concerning the metaphysical implications of Apple’s new MobileMe service. Insightful, knowledged and beautifully written, this is something that should be read twice.

Mac Gems are Macworld’s picks for the best free or cheap applications for the Mac. For the next 2 months, the Mac Gems weblog will feature an app a day. This is something to keep an eye on. Glasses raised for the Summer of Mac Gems!

The details are sparse, but this screen shot of the upcoming browser Mecca for OS X looks promising. Wow, a black browser! Not so sure about that name, though.