MacMembraneThere are peels everywhere…

The maker of the excellent utility, Hazel, has published a candid write up of his experience participating in the Mac update bundle. Though there is some pointed criticism of bundle participation, most importantly, that the lion’s share of the profits go to the promoters, the developer seems to have found the overall experience beneficial.

Hardware test gives you the lowdown on the physical state of your Mac. On the newest models - MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and MacBook - holding down D during boot up will enter your machine into Hardware Test without needing a disk. Good to know.

TUAW reminds readers of the utility MultiFireFox 2.0, which allows users to run multiple versions of Firefox (good for web devs and those who need some plugin for FF that isn’t currently supported by the newest release).

Wicked Mail.app icons from Japanese designer Taichi Nishida. Via Hawk Wings.

Daring Fireball’s take on upgrading to the iPhone 3G: “So what it boils down to is whether you think it’s worth $199 up front — plus $15 extra per month for the new data plan with SMS — for faster cell network data.” Some well considered reasoning to come to this conclusion.

Pixels are Hot: “Consider a popular driving intersection in your town. You know, the one where cars race by most times of the day, and at least two corners of the intersection, on opposite sides of the road, are occupied by a gas station. Each business sells a similar product, for an extremely similar price. [...]

Firefox 3 is ready for download! I’ve been trying to get in now on and off for about an hour, and seems that their servers finally regained traction. Go now to help them set a world record for most downloads in a single day.

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 [...]

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.

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.