MacMembraneThere are peels everywhere…

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.

9 to 5 Mac writes about iPods equipped with VCommunicator Mobile translation software that lets troops easily communicate with civilians in their native tongue. The roll out was an experiment that apparently has met with success on the ground. Join the army and get a free iPod Touch?