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Highlights of 2008

Before starting the new year, we will take a brief look at UsingMac resources during year 2008, including remarkable Mac applications, killer tips and tricks, awesome wallpapers collection, time saver keyboard shortcuts and other interesting stuffs.

Remarkable Mac Applications

It doesn't matter how powerful your Mac, without wide knowledge of Mac application, you won't fully utilize your Mac. Oppositely, brutally installing all applications recommended by favorite sources isn't a wise step also.

In the year 2008, compilations of articles about Mac applications are significant enough to give you brief introduction to many Mac applications that's readily available.

100+ Free Applications for Mac OS X

Don't be shocked by the amount of free applications here. There are actually thousands of those, but I only mention some that worth the spotlight, such as Deeper, Paparazzi!, AppCleaner and many other apps.

Mac Application Launchers

To name some of application launchers spotted by UsingMac, there are still many of those available. However, in the case of choosing application launcher, experience and growing productivity comes first, as reflected by growing learning of using Quicksilver, Namely, Sapiends and other application launchers mentioned.

Mac Image Viewers

Other than those famous application launchers, image viewers are also available in various forms with various conveniences and features delivered to us. But of course, you won't need image viewers if you don't even have a single image.

Mac Applications for Video Recording

Here you can find several alternatives of video recorder for Mac, from free to $99.99 price tag, from only capturing screen to advance movie editing.

Mac Apps that Stand Out from the Crowd

These apps are so unique that I can hardly find any special category for them. But their usability and functionality really stand out from the crowd; They worth the mention!

Killer Tips and Tricks

As the backbone of UsingMac, killer tips and tricks won't be absent from our big roundup. There are many of the killer tips and tricks we have provided and we're glad that some even get huge exposure from popular sites.

Here are the highlights of some killer tips and tricks.

100+ Must Know Quick Leopard Tips

Huge list of tips and tricks that can be done on your Mac. This huge list would not be interesting without trying out the tips and tricks.

Preview Tutorial - Embed Icon into Stack Drawer

Step by step guide to kill your plain-looking stack folder and replace it with icon embedded drawer icon.

Quicksilver Tricks

Things that you can do with your Quicksilver as not merely an application launcher but a time saver application, including list of available actions and other killer Quicksilver tricks.

10 Handy Mac Preview Application Tricks as Image Editor

Editing image with your Mac isn't as difficult as it seems to be. These 10 tricks will give you the power to do more with Preview.

Dock Tweaks for Mac OS X Leopard

Having your Trash name changed into Recycle Bin is one of the tricks taught inside this article. There are also couple more cool things that you can do for your Dock.

Impressive Safari Plugins

With its competitor, Firefox 3, empowered with many third party plugins, the blazing speed of Safari may lose. But these impressive Safari plugins may at least bring Safari to be a par to Firefox.

Terminal Sings Songs

Not only you can use your Terminal to do some of your works, but during a mind-numbing day, your Terminal can also amuse you with its not-so-special songs.

Free Download YouTube Video with Safari

This article will reveal you the secret trick of using Activity Monitor to grab free YouTube Video from its huge video database. And this trick can also be done on other media sites similar to YouTube.

Awesome Wallpapers Collection

While most of the time discussing about Mac tricks, sometimes we will throw wallpaper compilation to reinvigorate our Mac display. Currently, they're thousands of wallpapers showcased on our gallery and more will be added in the future.

Monthly Wallpapers

Every month, we will have an article called Wallpapers of the Month. And up to now, we've already three of these, showcasing best wallpapers found on the particular month, which are

1. Wallpapers of the Month: October 2008
2. Wallpapers of the Month: November 2008
3. Wallpapers of the Month: December 2008

Nature Wallpapers

Apart from those monthly wallpapers, nature wallpapers are also mind-refreshing. And we've found hundreds of them and compiled them in two separate articles

1. 200 Mind-Blowing Nature Wallpapers
2. 150 Awesome Nature Wallpapers

Apple Wallpapers

Some compilations of wallpapers focused on Apple logo are made, but these two are the most popular throughout year 2008

1. 50+ Nice Apple Wallpapers
2. 90 More Nice Apple Wallpapers

Other Wallpapers

Not only limited to those kinds of wallpapers mentioned above but other wallpapers are also hot among our readers

1. Beautiful, Inspiring Firefox Wallpapers
2. Some Nice Leopard Wallpapers

Time Saver Keyboard Shortcuts

It's no doubt that keyboard shortcuts play important role in saving your time and boosting your productivity. Experiencing this fact, sometimes I present available keyboard shortcuts in a comprehensive way: by highlighting certain part with different text coloring to emphasize on its usefulness.

Modifier Keys and Their Impact on Keyboard Shortcuts

Remembering keyboard shortcuts it's not only the matter of how big your brain is but more to the matter of how you understand the impact of adding additional modifier keys (Shift, Control and Option) to keystrokes.

This article gives you the main idea of it.

40 Mac Keyboard Shortcuts for Finder

Like Windows Explorer on Windows, Finder is the most visited place while using your Mac. Therefore, keyboard shortcuts like Command-1 to view list as icons and many other time saving shortcuts can greatly boost our file-searching speed.

It's also explained a bit how you can adapt your old Windows keyboard shortcuts to new Mac keystrokes.

45 Mac Keyboard Shortcuts for Firefox

List of available Firefox keyboard shortcuts, comparing keyboard shortcuts for Windows and keystrokes for Mac in a easy-to-understand, tabular way.

25 Useful Shortcuts for Safari

Collection of Safari Web Browser keyboard shortcuts from not widely known to commonly used keystrokes.

Mail Keyboard Shortcuts

Remembering shortcuts is the most efficient way to get the most out of our Mac, not exclusive for Mail. This simple list of 63 Mail keyboard shortcuts will help you know better features inside your Mail and what keystrokes to use that can cut your time consumption on using Mail.

iMovie'08 - The Quick Shortcuts

For iMovie'08 fans, keyboard shortcuts are useful in editing movie. In this article, not only you will be introduced to several shortcuts but you will also get overall function of the feature discussed.

Mac Screen Savers

Nowadays, screen saver isn't merely for screen-burn protection, but screen saver is also used for point of attraction. It's also kind of showing off to some extent.

Here are useful UsingMac resources regarding to Mac screen saver.

Top Selection of Mac Screen Savers

Collection of absolutely beautiful screen savers. Splitted into two articles which each of them bear different screen savers strong characteristics: eye-candy versus colorful.

• Top 10 Mac Screen Savers
• Top 8 Mac Screen Savers

Unique Clock Screen Savers

Instead of plain-looking clock screen saver, it's so much better to have screen saver dedicated to show you clock in a very creative way, such as the Polar Clock Screen Saver, Drop Clock, Word Clock, and other unique clock screen savers.

iPhoto and Mosaic Screen Saver

One of the golden egg inside your Mac is the Mosaic Screen Saver, in this article, you will see the awesomeness of this Mosaic screen saver and how to make it works!

Customize Flurry Screen Saver

As the title suggests, this article teaches you how to make customization to your Flurry screen saver. But if it's suitable, you can use the guide for other screen savers as well.

Other Attractive Stuffs

These are the other attractive stuffs that can be found on UsingMac in the year 2008 (and more will emerge on year 2009).

1. 70+ Creative Transparent Mac Screens
2. Stunning Mac Setups
3. Stunning Mac Setups 2: Youngsters Edition

To dig out more of UsingMac available resources, you can go to our archive section.

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