MacMembraneThere are peels everywhere…

Mac OS X Tips: Similar in substance to my post on TaskPaper and GeekTool, here’s a little tutorial for displaying your iCal events on your desktop.

Three posts from 9 t0 5 Mac this weekend that will make you smile.
NYC Subway Map Goes Multi-Touch
A Sweet Hackintosh
and
The Downside of Facial Recognition Software

Macworld’s Dan Moren with a clear eyed evaluation of Google’s new iTunes-free contact and calendar sync as it relates to MobileMe:

It’s the kind of thing that would look like a shot across Apple’s bow if it weren’t for the fact that the two companies are apparently the best of pals—Google CEO Eric Schmidt is still [...]

John Siracusa, who’s been on fire lately, distills Apple’s product launch cycle down to 6 general phases. My favorite is phase five, which takes place after a prolonged period wherein Apple/Steve Jobs has been publicly critical of the general idea of the product:

Jobs continues to bash the idea, but starts to change the language subtly. [...]

Andy Ihnatko, whose nerdiness is excelled only by his wit, declares his intention to “use and abuse every resource at my disposal to propel Steve Wozniak…into the finals of the [Dancing With the Stars] competition.” Seriously, someone should start a Facebook group.

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 [...]

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.

Via 9 to 5 Mac.

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. [...]