MacMembraneThere are peels everywhere…

Wil Shipley, the lead developer behind Delicious Library, offers his thoughts on the state of the iPhone App Store. Shipley’s thesis boils down to this: Apple should allow any and every app into the App store that isn’t explicitly harmful to users and drop all the ‘quality control’ affectations. He supports this claim [...]

If you want to change which widgets are displayed in your dashboard, you just click the ‘+’ symbol in the bottom left corner to bring up a panel of your available widgets. But you can also bring it up by hitting Cmd + ‘=’ - which I discovered by accident by means of a [...]

Macworld with some good advice on password security. Common sense!

Red Sweater Blog: “Perhaps the darkest angle of our ongoing wait for the lifting of Apple’s iPhone NDA, is that we seem to be “waiting for Godot.” The parallels to the fabled character are pretty weak, but I can’t help but think myself a fool when I observe that I, along with countless others, [...]

TUAW lets us know that Google Gears is now available for Safari. I’m not totally familiar with Gears, but this is a great development for Safari users (like myself). Despite a philosophical soft-spot for Firefox, I can’t stand to use it myself, so Gears for Firefox wasn’t really an option for me. [...]

Macworld has published a short but thorough review of what’s new in the 2G iPod Touch. Somehow, I’ve managed to hold off buying an iTouch since they arrived (I’d love to have an iPhone, there’s no doubt. But I’m currently living in South Korea and travel too much of the world for an [...]

NetShare, the iPhone 3G tethering app, has now been completely banned on from the App store. I can understand why this might be the case - and why AT&T might be upset about such an app - but I think Apple really needs to get their act together about the app store. Who [...]

Can anyone get the new Genius smart playlist feature of iTunes to work with the Beatles?! I really like Genius, but why not a Beatles playlist?

Daring Fireball on the app store. You’ve worked (slaved?) for months creating something innovative and new for the iPhone, only to have you efforts be rejected at the end of it all for undefined reasons. Insanity. Gruber is 100% right - Apples needs to lay some clear rules down for the app [...]

Macworld with some useful terminal commands to customize the new iTunes 8. Remove genre when browsing, disable iTunes store links, play songs while converting or importing and load complete previews of songs before playing networked tracks. If you’re missing these preferences in the new iTunes, this article will set you up.

With the new iTunes 8 Apple has disabled the preference to remove iTunes store links from each and every song in your iTunes library. This is seriously annoying, insofar as I’m living in South Korea and these little arrows lead me to a blank page informing me that the iTunes music store is unavailable [...]

9 to 5 Mac points to this iFixit tear down of the new iPod Touch. The news: an onboard Bluetooth chip! It hasn’t bee mentioned by Apple, and it may only be fore the Nike+ running suite, but it sure makes me even more excited.

Korea Apple lists a 3 to 5 week waiting period for the new iTouch! Ahh - I’ve waited this long, I can endure…

Al3x has 25 solid rules for ‘happy computing.’ I think I would add, Never reach for the mouse when you could use the keyboard. Via

TUAW has written up a few writing tools for back to school. I’m not familiar with a few of them, but lately I’m into WriteRoom - plain text and pretty. I’ve mentioned it in a couple posts.

MacWorld’s Chris Breen considers the upcoming iPod event of September 9. Well thought out article, although nothing surprising. In any case - new iTouch please!

Here’s a quick one. Type a few letters in TextEdit (or other writing app) and press Escape. A list of possible completions for your typed letters appears! Add this to the growing list of accidental finds.

9 to 5 Mac has found some really nice MacBook Pro mockups (well, jut one). It looks a MacBook Air Black to me, but it’s very well done in Photoshop. Glass track pad!

Is this the new MacBook Pro? Is this the new iPod Nano? I normally wouldn’t post rumors, but these images are making me really excited. Come on September Apple event!