MacMembraneThere are peels everywhere…

MacYourself: some excellent power user tips for selecting text in documents and elsewhere. My favorite is the technique for selections in long documents:

Click once at the very beginning of your desired text selection, move the mouse to scroll down, and click again at the end as you hold the Shift key down. Everything between those [...]

While we wait for a power user release of Twitterrific, here are a few of my own tricks and scripts that make the little app more usable for me.

Macworld’s Dan Frakes:

Layers is obviously a specialty tool that isn’t for everyone. But for those who’ll find it useful—and you know who you are—it’s one of the most innovative and useful bits of software I’ve seen in a while.
Layers is a screenshot app that produces a Photoshop file wherein every element of your desktop is [...]

Analytics App for iPhone. This looks really nice. It’s 5.99 from on the App Store.
Along with Tweetie, we’re really starting to see some iPhone apps with far superior navigation and layout to either their web based or desktop competitors. Things are getting seriously exciting.
Via TUAW.

Add a custom search of your Del.icio.us bookmarks to Safari and access it via the keyboard.

Via 9 to 5 Mac.

A dubious claim that ‘Hackintoshes,’ or non-Apple made computers that have been hacked to run OS X, have become more popular than machines running Linux and the iPhone. This is not the case.

Google Mobile Blog: Google’s gMail integrated Tasks is now available via a web app for iPhones and iTouches. I don’t use it, but you can sign in and give it a go if you’re on your phone reading this.
What I’d really like to see is the ability to sync todos from Mail.app to the iPhone. [...]

TUAW: You can now jailbreak your 2G iPod Touch. However, there is a serious caveat:
unless you are perfectly comfortable with using buggy development tools, installing some extra libraries and interacting in DFU mode, you really shouldn’t be attempting to jailbreak your device.

Since I can understand scarcely half of that sentence, I’m going to hold off [...]

Mac Rumors: Apparently Apple is ‘collaborating’ with Adobe to bring the later’s Flash runtime environment to Mobile Safari. So says Adobe, anyhow.
Personally, I’m indifferent to the prospect. Apart from the occasional video that I have to email to myself and watch when I’m back at my desktop, I haven’t been pining for Flash in any [...]