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New Design. The White UsingMac
After several months of black-theme UsingMac, we've decided to transform into white-theme design. Perhaps, some of you might feel surprised by this sudden change, but we hope that you feel comfortable with our new design.
Why Do We Choose White?
Having browsed through most of the websites that contain guide or information, rarely can we see them using white-on-black layout. That's when we think of changing into white-on-black layout.
What Are The Changes We Made?
If you have visited our site before, you would notice that the look-and-feel of several places have been tweaked, for example: mini highlights on the top now is incorporated with simple round button, you can browse through those highlights by clicking on the button.
Besides that change, we have also made changes to
- Logo → Now with simple text instead of image, for faster loading
- Search Bar → Located at right most of our navigation bar
- Sidebar → More appealing hover effect is added for better navigation
- Comment Box → It has been enlarged and now accept line break
And the biggest change would be the change from Black to White.
What Do You Think?
We believe that we are still far from perfect. It's really appreciated if you can give us any constructive feedback or comment on this new design. Not only for giving feedback, you can also try out our new comment box.
Hope you enjoy this new experience with UsingMac.
Thanks to UsingMac Sponsors
We would like to shout a big thank you for our sponsors. They've done a great task in enriching our Mac life. You can purchase an adspot on UsingMac through BuySellAds.
CleanMyMac
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Keynote Quartet FX
A set of great presentation-making tools that can make your presentation memorable and mind-blowing!
Many new tweaks, free applications, wallpapers, and giveaways are coming! Make sure you come back often~
Evolution of Apple Products 1
Most of Apple products are designed to be minimalist and appealing to eyes; that's what we can see now: glossy screen with glimmering aluminum case. However, how about Apple products 30 years ago?
In this article, you can see how much Apple products have evolved for these past 30 years. You can also see that Apple products at the old time are much more expensive than these days. And maybe you will notice that some of the non-Apple laptops still resemble Apple products 10 years ago (Woah!).
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Evolution of Apple Products 2
After seeing those antiques from the article Evolution of Apple Products 1, I believe we already have a nice nostalgic moment.
Now is the time to show the glimmer of Apple products in the past 10 years…
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Elegant Apple Mockups 2: Mythical MacTouch
"If MacTouch is to be built by the big family of Apple, what will it look like", this question seems to be vibrating near my ears all of sudden. Out of my curiosity, I go Google-ing for MacTouch.
Some remarkably interesting MacTouch/MacBook Touch mockups, possibly made by Apple fans, are found.
Mac Resources for Your Christmas
Christmas is coming and it's the right time to start decorating your house, as well as your Mac.
Maybe there are already a lot of free Christmas resources around the net, but I'd like to make one special list for Mac.
Though this is not a huge list, but I've tried to cover the most interesting things on your Mac, such as screen saver, wallpaper, and many other fun stuffs. So, what are you waiting for now?
Social Networking Gets Easier with EventBox
DIGG, Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter are my daily visits. However, have you even imagine having all of the benefits of these sites nicely packaged in your Mac Desktop?
EventBox!
This is the solution, EventBox packs all of those online services into a sleek and simple box and - as the name suggests - the box is called event box.
Mac OS X Dock Pillows
Most fan clubs have their own mascots, accessories, uniforms, etc etc. So what do you think is the most possible special accessories for Mac fanboys?
It's the pillow! To keep you warm all the time and also to always remind you that you will never be able to turn back once you've join our Mac fanboy club - also called Mac Fanboyism.
Sorry guys, no killer tricks for today, you can only see killer pillow… :)
Mac Dictionary, Secret Words
No much things to show for now, just a bit of fun that you can get with your Mac Dictionary.
First of all, open up your Mac Dictionary, choose to display Thesaurus and type in one of these secret words:
Apple
"Varieties of apples: Ambrosia, Baldwin, Braebum, Cameo, etc."
I don't know there are so many varieties of apple. Surprisingly, there is also a variety of apple called McIntosh, which I think, from where the name Macintosh comes into use.
Democracy
"A democracy in Irag is quite unlikely for now or any time soon."
Metal
"Metals and Alloys: Aluminum, Antimony, Brass, Bronze, etc."
But now Google has use Chrome for its web-browser name. Maybe next time we can expect other company to have their browsed code-named Pewter?
Maybe you got other interesting Hidden Dictionary Words to show us? The comment box is always there for you :)
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Apple Keynote Bloopers
Found on YouTube this morning: Apple Keynote Bloopers.
I think the title and the movie itself are pretty explanatory.
Trust me it works!
Anyway, the last keystrokes on the movie being used to force quit the frozen Quake III program is Command-Option-Escape.
Apple Products Now and Then
It has always been my dream to collect classic Apple products and publish it on this site. Apple was really powerful, lackness of advanced resources in the old times didn't affect its development process; Apple was still producing fancy stuffs.
In front of your eyes, you will see collection of Apple products from time to time. Enjoy Different!
The Universally Acceptable Mac
Apple has designed Mac really well that it can be universally used under any circumstances, you don't believe in me? This picture is the proof!
Well, is that mere human inside or outside the restroom?
Elegant Apple Mockups
Submitted to Flickr by Miguel Suárez, this Black MacBook Pro hits Digg front page in a sudden.
"Once you go black…"
"Holy crap my wallet is burning."
Applying the black skin of MacBook Black, combining with the smoothness of MacBook Air edge and adding glass keypad along with the beautifully engraved MacBook Pro brand there makes this design really looks elegant.
Do you think Apple will take this creative, elegant mockup and implement for the future MacBook design?
Leopard Look-alike Ubuntu
Folks at MakeTechEasier posted a nifty trick to turn their Ubuntu into a Leopard look-alike operating system.
It's kind of surprising for me. So now, both Windows users and Ubuntu users have the high demand to turn theirs into Leopard. Why don't they just buy a new Mac?
Via [MakeTechEasier]