MacMembraneThere are peels everywhere…

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 life [...]

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.

A friend of mine recently asked for an explanation as to why her Mac had suddenly begun to throw up “Disk Almost Full” warnings. Her music, movies and pictures folders were all a reasonable size and her trash was empty, but still the warnings persisted. Where did all the space go?

It isn’t often that iTunes isn’t running on my Mac. Music is the lubricant of my life, and doubtlessly I’m not alone in this. Here is the best way to quickly bring iTunes to the front, hide it if that’s where it currently is, or launch it otherwise.

Merlin Mann dishes about OmniFocus for iPhone – with location aware task listings! It’s almost getting creepy…

Apple should abandon AppleScript for JavaScript: “I hold a soft spot in my heart for AppleScript. But I’m slightly more of a pragmatist than a romantic. If JavaScript is what Apple cares most about, and JavaScript is where massive performance improvements are going to be made, then Apple should leverage those improvements to the benefit [...]

This tip on Mac OS X Hints gives you the Terminal command to revert Help Viewer’s behavior back to Tiger behavior. Personally I can’t stand how Leopard’s Help Viewer floats on top of all windows (probably a good thing for new users, though). Great tip.