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Get the Most out of Adium

2009-07-04T14:00:00Z

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more. Most of Mac users have known the existence of this instant messaging client. And today, I would like to reveal some of the nifty tricks while using Adium to get the most...

Daily Trick 3. Quick Look Zoom

2009-07-04T14:00:00Z

Quick Look usually scales down big images to suit the screen resolution. Because of this, we may lose some details of the image while we observed it in Quick Look mode. Some people maybe suggest using Full Screen Mode, but that's not solving the problem for images with higher...

MacBook Spaceship

2009-07-03T14:00:00Z

A French guy is using his MacBook when it suddenly transforms into a MacBook Spaceship. Let's watch and be amazed by this new MacBook technology. <object height="370" width="450"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.liveleak.com/e/adf_1245828170"></param> ...

Daily Trick 2. Total Darkness

2009-07-03T11:00:00Z

Usually, in order to adjust the brightness of our Mac to 0%, we will press and hold the function button all the way until the light from our Mac is gone. And I am not satisfied with this usual stuff as it's not giving me immediate darkness to my Mac. I've mentioned this trick...

Daily Trick 1. Shut Down

2009-07-02T11:00:00Z

Some new Mac users, without knowing the existence of universal shortcut to directly shut down their Mac, would go for the menu bar, search for the apple logo, choose the option, and confirm from the prompted dialog box. All of these hassles...

100+ Elegant & Artistic Wallpapers

2009-07-01T14:00:00Z

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...

Thanks to UsingMac Sponsors

2009-06-30T14:00:00Z

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 CleanMyMac helps you in cleaning up useless system files that pile up and waste your precious disk...

Giveaway: (5x) CleanMyMac from MacPaw

2009-06-22T13:00:00Z

Upon installation of application, some system files are spread across your Mac without your knowing that. Even after uninstallation, those persistent files are leaved behind, eating up your free space. Several third party apps are available to clean up these leftovers; CleanMyMac is...

20+ Free Productivity Booster Apps for Mac

2009-06-19T13:00:00Z

Lacking of productivity applications will slow down our workflow and consume more time, even though we've already purchased a Mac. Using only built-in Mac applications, we can neither get the most out of our Mac nor boost our productivity. In this article, we've compiled several...

Recording Speech with GarageBand 2009

2009-06-18T14:00:00Z

After burning some time to play around with GarageBand 2009, I got a new skill to share with you all in this article: recording speech. Although it sounds simple, there are many hidden tricks to get clean and nice recorded speech. Hope this article can help you in your future speech recording.

Winners of SyncMate Expert Giveaway

2009-06-18T07:30:00Z

Many thanks to everyone who has participated in the giveaway to try out luck in winning one free SyncMate Expert from Eltima Software. Regardless of the order, here are the five lucky winners we have: Zachary Price “The two features that I think are the best are the iCal & ToDo...

Experience iTunes Like Never Before with Additional Freewares

2009-06-09T14:00:00Z

Having my Mac accompanying my daily life, it would be a miss without the companion of music. And for now, I still adore iTunes as my music player. However, there are still some limitations to the awesomeness of iTunes, such as hard to rate, difficult to find lyrics, little information in mini...

Giveaway: (5x) SyncMate Expert Edition

2009-06-08T07:04:00Z

If you are one of those Mac users who own Windows Mobile phones, you have probably encountered the problem of an impossibility of syncing these two devices. As Mac and WinMobile devices were not meant to cooperate, the variety of software synchronization solutions is not really wide. This...

30+ Free Menubar Applications for Mac

2009-06-02T12:00:00Z

Menubar applications are sometimes more favorable than normal applications because not only these menubar applications can run seamlessly on background but also they can save most of our valuable dock space. Most importantly, in this article you will see some variations of useful, free...

10 Simplest Apple Wallpapers, Ever

2009-05-28T15:33:00Z

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...