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Design Flow of New UsingMac

As you've noticed, we've changed our design. I spent almost half a year redesigning, optimizing and testing my template in order to get the full satisfaction. As for me, the greatest obstacle in designing myself. Hopefully, I've been able to deliver this sleek and simple design to you.

In our new design, we've implemented several features for better reader experience :

New Wallpapers Gallery
Recent Comments Section
Archives Page
Ruby Search
List of Popular Articles
Live Preview for Comment

If you have any comments on our design, feel free to speak.

If you want to see our process in designing new UsingMac template, you can continue on reading this article.

22 Apple Inspired Free WordPress Themes

As one of the fellow bloggers, I admit that I should contribute something to the blogosphere. So, I decided to compile a nice list of unique Apple inspired WordPress theme. Hope that with this, I can make a little contribution to blogging community and at the same time add nice WordPress themes to your collection.

Tip: Click on the preview image to try out the theme.

Leopard Mac WordPress Theme

Leopard look alike 3-column layout WordPress theme. The Leopard Logo and Leopard designed Aurora wallpaper make this theme more attractive. [Download]

Developing Rails Application on Mac OS X Leopard

With Ruby on Rails you can build powerful and dynamic web sites. Read this article to learn how to develop your application using Xcode 3.0 and the tools that come pre-installed in Leopard.

Ruby on Rails is a popular and powerful open source web framework for rapidly creating high-quality web applications. Rails is thriving on Mac OS X, and Leopard comes pre-installed with Ruby, Rails, Mongrel, Capistrano, Subversion, and other tools that help to streamline the development and deployment of Rails applications. We will use the Organizer feature of XCode 3.0 to demo the step of the development.

This article gives you a full tour of Ruby on Rails 2.0 on Mac OS X Leopard and building a web application using the latest Rails features with Xcode 3.0.

Web Development PHP (Part 1)

I will write series of articles about Web Development Using PHP, this is the part one of those, about activating and installing PHP first. Mac OS X Leopard comes with Apache 2.2 bundle with PHP 5 by default. Beside they still provide option to switch back to PHP4 and also you can actually activate back Apache 1.3 web server. But for PHP, we need to activate it with few steps, which we will cover on this tutorial. We can start the apache web server use the System Preferences » Sharing » Just check the Web Server option.

Usingmac.com - New Tabs

It's about time for us to reveal some of our secrets.

As promised, About Us and Contact tab have been completed. Sorry for the delay.

About Us

Here, we reveal our identity as a group of passionate Mac users. We have three powerful weapons : G5 Mac Pro, MacBook White and MacBook Black with several collection of books for supplying our mind. If you really want to know more, you can click on the About Us tab.

40+ Mac Mods from Time to Time

Though Apple products have been really elegant-looking, people are still having the urge to change the looks and feel of their Mac, here are several Mac Mods from Time to Time:

UsingMac.com - New Skin

Even though this new skin can't be compared with the thinness of MacBook Air, at least it can be compared with the blackness of MacBook Black.

After several days of struggling and lacking sleep, our team finally complete this new black skin on UsingMac.

Killer Leopard Trick - Finder Screen Sharing

Talking about Screen Sharing, the reflection of iChat shouldn't be far away from your mind. Actually, the Screen Sharing itself is provided in your Finder.

Screen Sharing Whereabouts

Just now I told you that Screen Sharing is separated from iChat. To prove that, you could go to Mac HD ▸ System ▸ Library ▸ CoreServices which Mac HD is your hard drive name. Inside there, you will definitely find Screen Sharing.

Free HTML Editors for Mac OS X

Komodo Edit: Multi-language editor for creating quality code.
Nvu [read: N-view]: Free web pages editor that definitely help you manage a website easily even without technical knowledge of HTML.

Turn Dock into Musician, Controlling iTunes

Have a nice experience listen to favorite music from iTunes? How about having even greater experience, where it is possible to control iTunes using Dock?

Leaving alone the uncomfortable feeling to open iTunes windows whenever it is needed to make some changes to it. ripstyles.com presents Mac with new breakthrough, The iTunes Dock Control Applications in the form of free software.

It’s providing three important buttons to control iTunes directly from Dock’s surface: next, play/pause, and previous.

Mac Tricks and Tips, Wallpapers and Applications for Mac Users