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A Hearty Collection of Valentine Wallpapers
Perhaps we haven't notice the reason why but the the heart is often associated with the notion of love. In ancient times, the heart was believed to be the origin of emotions. Giving your heart to someone could mean that you are giving away everything completely to that person. Be it myth or truth, most people see the heart as a symbol of love.
Although the heart shape looks nowhere near the actual heart, the concept of heart and its shape or symbol has been notable for its emblem of feelings and emotions. Many designers have applied this well perceived symbol into their works to illustrate their artistic expressions of romance and love. Different yet impressive styles of expressions are born, portraying a wide range of emotions coming from the similar sincerity.
Cute Hearty Valentine
As the love bud forms, the process is often sweet, adorable and innocent. The following wallpaper designs are bound to bring a smile to the both of you as they remind us how sweet love could be.
First Love
100+ Beautiful Nature Wallpapers
In this article, we’d like to showcase you a list of 100+ Beautiful Nature Wallpapers to decorate your desktop. Previously we have also compiled some beautiful wallpapers; if you like to collect wallpapers, you may want to look at some of these posts:
- 100+ Elegant & Artistic Wallpapers
- 200 Mind-Blowing Nature Wallpapers
- Beautiful, Inspiring Firefox Wallpapers
- 50+ Nice Apple Wallpapers
- And more…
Let's proceed to wallpapers collection in this article.
100+ Elegant & Artistic Wallpapers
Wallpapers can be creative, elegant, and refreshing. If you are looking to add some awesomeness to your Mac, you probably need a desktop wallpaper that decorates your Mac to create something that matches the elegance of Mac.
In this post we present mind-blowing desktop wallpapers related fantasy art, light stream, and color spectrum themse. All screenshots are clickable and lead to the pages where they can be downloaded.
They are definitely worth a look!
10 Simplest Apple Wallpapers, Ever
We always believe that desktop wallpapers can boost our inspiration, increase our productivity, and also draw other people's attention towards our Mac. However, we often feel uneasy, uncomfortable of the fact that most of the time wallpaper in fact become a distraction for us.
Having a little experience in creating wallpapers, we have given our best effort to create simple yet attractive Apple wallpapers. Hope that we can help you spice up your Mac.
Before seeing our hand-made wallpapers, you may want to see our previous collection of Apple wallpapers:
Apple Wallpapers, Gorgeous!
Though we've explored many nicely designed Apple wallpapers out there, new Apple wallpapers are popping out somewhere else. But we feel extremely delighted to know that we can further expand our collection of Apple wallpapers and share it with everyone.
You may want to see our previous collection of Apple wallpapers:
Either old walls or these newly discovered eye-candies will 100% suit your Desktop.
Can't believe us? Check it out…
Mac Screen Capture Tricks
Capturing screen of Mac is not just limited to keystrokes Command-Shift-3 alone to capture the whole screen. Some may feel unnecessary to know many screen capture tricks. Some feel the urge to explore more of this nifty screen capture features.
As I've experienced, I found out many practical screen capture tricks, such as Screen Capture Part of Screen, Screen Capture the Screen Saver and many others.
If you've followed UsingMac for quite a time, you will find that I've mentioned some of the screen capture tricks in my previous articles. Here, I will add more tricks, along with the old tricks, to provide more complete and useful resource.
Before going further, you can take a look of other resources related to Screen Capture:
Let's get started!
Wallpapers of the Month: December 2008
We're back again with the stunning wallpapers collection! Though we just started two months ago, we feel joyful to receive overhelming response from our readers.
Our eyes are just as sharp as last time to filter out the best wallpapers from huge selection of wallpapers around the world. As usual, we prefer to present you wallpapers with distraction level as low as possible in order to maintain your productivity level at its highest.
Before proceeding further, we would like to suggest you other great wallpapers compilation that we've made:
- Remarkable Apple Wallpapers
- 200 Mind-Blowing Nature Wallpapers
- Beautiful, Inspiring Firefox Wallpapers
- Wallpapers of the Month: October 2008 & November 2008
Here you go, our wallpapers selection for this month!
Mac Image Viewers
Most Mac users will like to use Preview as their image viewer. Most users will also use iPhoto. But few of us, feeling not satisfied with these built-in applications, seeks for better image viewers.
As a matter of fact, there are many Mac image viewers built by developers, such as Xee, CocoViewX and Sequential, just to name a few. After having fun with some of them, I've come up with this list of Mac image viewers to share with you.
Let's see what are these Mac image viewers.
Wallpapers of the Month: November 2008
Without even noticing, time flies by so fast and another month has come upon us. Deep inside my heart, I believe that all of us have already bored with the collection of wallpapers currently on hand and starting to go out seeking for fresh and new wallpapers.
After days of rumbling around the net, we on UsingMac are proud to present you collection of best wallpapers for this month, November 2008. These wallpapers are chosen by the eyes of us to make your widescreen display even more attractive yet still keeping the distraction level to its lowest.
Here you go, wallpapers of the month!
Wallpapers of the Month: October 2008
Every month, we'd like to present you with some beautiful high-resolution wallpapers. This is not only because it's too easy for us to get bored by the very same wallpapers sticking on our display screen everyday, but also because it looks dull and uncool to have a similar wallpaper time by time while your Windows friends possibly change their Desktop wallpaper in a daily basis.
These wallpapers are collection of remarkable wallpapers that I found, bookmarked and favorited all the time. They're the best, at least for now.
Let's see what are those Wallpapers of the Month: October 2008.
iPhoto and Mosaic Screensaver
With Mac OS X Leopard and installed iPhoto with a bunch of imported images, you will be able to perform really cool screensaver called mosaic screensaver.
Photos to be transformed as mosaic will be chosen from either your whole library of iPhoto or from one of your selected iPhoto albums.
The Settings
Setting Up iPhoto Library
In case you haven't had your iPhoto Library set up, what you need to do is Open your iPhoto and Create Library…. Or if you have created your Library before, you can Choose Existing… library.
New MacBook Pro on German Site?
Seriously, everytime new Apple product are going to launch, there will be a lot of photoshopped, leaked mockups spread around the world, especially the world of net; The new MacBook Pro leaked on German site, the story is covered in engadget.
It's a really surprising, shocking and even exciting news. And then following the flow of breaking news, I come upon this bigger and even clearer version MacBook Pro mockup.
[Via: MacRumors]
Remarkable Apple Wallpapers
It's been quite a time since my last Apple wallpapers compilation. And for me, keeping the very same wallpapers sticking on my MacBook display is a great sin, i.e. they could surely degrade my productivity, which has been relatively low before being decayed by continuous distractions.
These Apple wallpapers, coming with gorgeous color, would probably make you feel more energetic and cheerful. At least for me, it avoids me from being suspected as "nerd" by the opposite sex.
150 Awesome Nature Wallpapers
Several days ago, I compiled 200 Mind-Blowing Nature Wallpapers, including Aurora, Clownfish, Rocks and Waterfall wallpapers. I'm really happy; I got a great feedbacks and nice responses from you all. And today, I'm going to present you my collection of awesome nature wallpapers. There are more or less hundred and fifty of them.
Anyway, I will display the small version of those wallpapers in ratio 16:10, so you can imagine how they will fit your widescreen display. Enjoy!
70+ Creative Transparent Mac Screens
From the first time transparent Mac appears on the world of web, about several years ago, it has brought many interests and discussions among people, including me. I've tried to, but still cannot resist to collect more of those transparent Mac screens around the net and share them with you.
You will see seventy more transparent Mac screens shown after the jump. Hope you will like it.
Tip: Photo of transparent Mac screens shown below aren't likely to be photoshopped.
200 Mind-Blowing Nature Wallpapers
When it comes to the nature, we can't resist its beauty. The beauty of nature always comes with pleasant and mind-refreshing look. Even though we're in the middle of our stressing work, we still can withstand it with the help of pleasant scenery of nature.
However, we won't be able to leave our workplace for taking a walk all the time. That's where nice nature wallpapers come in rescue. Luckily, there are a lot of amazing and remarkable nature wallpapers showcased around the web. Here, I only do a little help by collecting 200+ nature wallpapers: Aurora, Clownfish, Rocks and Waterfall Wallpapers; 50 for each.
But my effort is really little compared to authors of the wallpapers. So I would like to give thanks to all authors, they're such a great person!
Other wallpaper collection you may want to look at:
Beautiful, Inspiring Firefox Wallpapers
Hi all, now we're back again with our big collection of Firefox wallpapers. There are almost 100 wallpapers in total for you to enjoy. Hope that Firefox can bring you warm, comfortable summer.
Added : Best to be viewed with Firefox.
Recover Deleted Desktop Picture
I have set up a cool image as my Desktop picture and that precious file is accidentally deleted. And I will be really confused if someone came and asked me to send that image file I used as Desktop picture.
I spent my precious two-hours time digging through folders to find where the file is saved inside my Mac and ended up in vain. But then I realized, I can use one trick to recover that deleted Desktop picture. Here is how the trick works:
- Open System Preferences
- Choose Desktop & Screen Saver and then go under Desktop section
- Simply drag out the Desktop picture thumbnail and you will get the copy of that picture file. It works like a charm
For additional illustration, I have embedded the video tutorial for this trick.
Preview: Handy Color Picker [Leopard]
As a huge fan of Leopard Preview, I always try to do my image editing process with Preview. And I guess today is my lucky day, I discovered how to pick color from anywhere of your Mac screen with only Preview in hex format.
You could see the benefits here: Preview is fast, rarely crash and most importantly: it's free.
Setting Up
Here is the step by step tutorial on how to set up the color picker:
- Open Preview without opening any images file. This way, only the menubar of Preview will be shown on your Mac
- While the menubar is showing Preview, hit keystrokes Shift Command C to reveal one of Preview tools: Show Colors
- Inside Colors Pane, choose Color Palettes which is the third pane from the list of tools
- There you will see the palette chooser. In order to display the hex format of the color, you need to choose palette named Web Safe Colors
- Now, you've done the setting