MacMembraneThere are peels everywhere…

If you use iPhoto to manage your photos but routinely open up another app to edit and tweak them, you can quickly set your default editing app from within iPhoto’s preferences.

I haven’t used MacTheRipper for a long time now, so I forgot about the amusing and most possibly legally impotent disclaimer that it throws at you on first launch:

For some more fun, I thought I’d check ‘About MacTheRipper’ in the application menu:

In any case, I’m ripping a Korean DVD that I bought from a man [...]

If iTunes’ default icon is beginning to bore you, check out iTunes Speaker from JR Design.

Img2icns, the simple image utility which lets you create icons for use in OS X, has recently been updated to version 1.0. With this major update from Shiny Frog Img2icns now boasts a refined user interface and a wealth of new features that finally make the focused application a serious contender for best customization tool for your Mac.

Macenstein with a YouTube post demoing iBoobs, a psychological first-person thriller of a game which Apple – or The Great Prude, in some circles – has denied from it’s App Store. I imagine that the denial is based largely on the possibility that such an app would rocket to the top of the charts and [...]

MacBlogz offers up a prototype design of a new, multi-touch Mighty Mouse.

The mouse may be aluminum and glass. Sound familiar? Of course. And pretty soon we’re going to be seeing aluminum cables and glass carrying cases for our notebooks. Via 9 to 5 Mac.

GDocsUploader removes the clumsiness of uploading your docs onto the web.

If you’re like me an use HandBrake to encode to a specific format the majority of the time, it’s worth your while to change the default format from ‘Basic’ to your chosen format. Here’s how.

Bob Cringely asks, “What if Steve Jobs ran one of the Big Three auto companies?” There’s some real harshness to the article but it’s an entertaining read. Desperate times.

It might sound strange, but I thoroughly enjoy reinstalling OS X. The process may be time consuming, but my fetish for status bars, the awesome first launch movie and most importantly the prospect of a fresh Mac running to Apple’s specs makes it a pleasurable process. As far as system defaults are concerned, I’m happy with 99 percent of Apple’s choices. Here’s my checklist for dealing with that other 1 percent.