MacMembraneThere are peels everywhere…

Macs are easy to use, but they also allow for significant customization. Here are 10 tips to help you become a Mac power user.

And as every child knows, having a story read to you provides a gentle transition into sleep (and drowns out the nightly feral cat congregation outside your apartment window). iTunes Timer will stop iTunes from ruining your rest.

I could write a hundred of these posts - and I might try! Here are 10 excellent but lesser known freeware apps and utilities for your Mac.

Is this the new MacBook Pro? Is this the new iPod Nano? I normally wouldn’t post rumors, but these images are making me really excited. Come on September Apple event!

An AppleScript to make opening an application’s icon in Preview a one click affair.

AppleScript is a powerful tool and should be respected as such. Ghosts in the code…

Everyone loves freeware! But developers work hard on their creations, and giving everything away for free doesn’t pay the bills. Here are ten of my favorite shareware applications that I was more than happy to shell out a bit of cash for.

Select some text in Safari and hit Command + Shift + L and a new tab will open with Google Search results from your selected text! I had a whole AppleScript doing this for me before I found the shortcut…

Daring Fireball on OpenClip - the application that has (partially) brought copy and paste to the iPhone. As always, you’ll learn something new by reading Gruber’s article.

MacWorld has a neat tip on how to search your iTunes library by rating. Just type in ‘***’ to see all your songs with three or more stars, or ‘Pink Floyd ***’ to see only highly rated Floyd songs.

It always inspires confidence when a developer continues to release maintenance builds between major updates. Here are two apps that haven’t had any love for a long, long time.

I seem to discover a new keyboard shortcut daily. Command + L while a file or folder is selected in the Finder will create an alias! So much faster than right clicking and selecting Make Alias from the contextual menu.

Smashing Magazine gives its ‘Top Ten Usability Highs’ of OS X. Number 5 is my favorite - ‘Hiding the Technical Details’ - or lack of inscrutable dialog boxes.

Smashing Magazine’s top 10 Photoshop productivity shortcuts. Great list! Unfortunately, it’s for a Windows install of Photoshop. No problem. Just substitute ‘Ctrl’ for the Cmd key and you’re off and running for the majority.

Daring Fireball’s commentary on Microsoft’s leadership style as exemplified in a company memo by Ballmer. A clear contrast between that CEO and Apple’s.

Here’s a quick one: if you hold down the option key while your hovering over ‘Private Browsing’ in Safari’s main menu, the ‘…’ will disappear and you can select the option without being hit with the ‘Are you sure you want to turn on private browsing dialog?’ box. Yes, I am sure…

Before Leopard, the OS X’s little calculator application was a close friend. But Leopard lets you do simple equations in Spotlight, so unless I need to calculate something more complicated, I seldom open calculator. Today, however, it seemed unhappy about being woken…

The font selection panel in OS X is somewhat uninspiring. Here is an AppleScript to turn your font folder into a mini application.

TUAW’s neat little script to create iCal todos.