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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.

Source: LiveLeak - MacBook Transform

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 somewhere in previous articles, we can use single keystrokes to get total darkness of our Mac.

0% Brightness

Shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-Eject.

This will sleep only the display without turning your Mac into sleep mode.

And this saves more battery power compared to turning on screen saver.

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 can be replaced with keystrokes:
Cmd-Opt-Ctrl-Eject.

The same applies for restart, only single keystrokes needed:
Cmd-Ctrl-Eject.

And to put the computer to sleep: Cmd-Opt-Eject.

Note. These shortcuts, except for restart, will take the action immediately without prompting dialog box asking for confirmation. Make sure you save all your works beforehand.

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 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!

Desktopography

Artist: Alexander Radsby

Loading

Artist: Rami A. Shaqdeeh

Duality

Artist: Alexander Radsby

Explosion of Light

Artist: Unknown

The Dancing Nebula

Artist: Casperium

Aurora Borealis

Artist: Jakub Nowaczyk

Nucleus

Artist: Till Nowak

Junio

Artist: Patricia V. Soy

Septiembre

Artist: Patricia V. Soy

Glacier Sunrise

Artist: Matt Li

Drustan's Nebula

Artist: Casperium

Stabilis

Artist: Jason Benjamin

Earthenibex

Artist: Rico Sta. Cruz

Wallpapers Planet

Artist: Daniel

Conspired and Contrived

Artist: Riyah

Demetrium Vitae

Artist: Max Last

Earth HD

Artist: Unknown

Stardust

Artist: Vitaly S. Alexius

Soccer Player

Artist: Nick La

Bokeh

Artist: Javier Ocasio

Experiment Wall

Artist: Unknown

Aurora

Artist: Piotr Karwowski

Serenity

Artist: Lars Nikander Frandsen

Chwant W

Artist: Lars Nikander Frandsen

The Bello Nebula

Artist: Casperium

Rising Sun

Artist: Dmitry

Fly to the Sky

Artist: Dmitry

City 2.0

Artist: Daniel

Enchanted Forest

Artist: Alexander Radsby

Expiatory Temple

Artist: George Grie

Labyrinth

Artist: Ziv Qual

Ghost Ship: Full Moon Rising

Artist: George Grie

Final Frontier

Artist: George Grie

Stormy Weather

Artist: Richard Mohler

Space Coast

Artist: Dmitry

Fires of Heaven

Artist: Orikon

Fall of the Autumn

Artist: Kenpunk 79

World, It's Magenta and Cyan

Artist: Dmitry

Yet Another Space

Artist: Eric Cartman

Chaos Ingens

Artist: Josef Barton

Fenix White April

Artist: Dmitry

Quattuor Simplex

Artist: Javier Ocasio

In a Whisper

Artist: Andrew

Age is Beauty

Artist: Sirakos

Colorswing

Artist: Mal93

The Moment

Artist: Matthew Johnson

MacBook Pro

Artist: Rheza Pahlevi

La Solitudine

Artist: Wendy

For a Thousand Years

Artist: Mikk Metsniit

Nova

Artist: Casperium

Let It Fly

Artist: Gustavo

Eternity of Beauty

Artist: Katie Caterpillar

Refluxation

Artist: Ange S.

Lady Gaga

Artist: Ange S.

Hardkandi

Artist: Ange S.

Phalanx

Artist: Tobias Roetsch

R.O.F. Nebula

Artist: Casperium

Blue Nexus

Artist: Casperium

Flowers House

Artist: Daniel

Terra Dream

Artist: P. Kleiner

Science Fiction

Artist: C. Gerber

Galileo

Artist: Josef Barton

Arrival

Artist: Josef Barton

Space Lighthouse

Artist: Mariusz Karasiewicz

Hundred Percent

Artist: Studio83

Rainbow

Artist: Eric Design

Reflux

Artist: Ange S.

Horizon

Artist: Hameed

Epic

Artist: Casperium

Balloon

Artist: Mal93

Space Travel

Artist: Max

Nebular

Artist: James Dolan

Horotard

Artist: Thorez Clément

Mutation

Artist: Thorez Clément

Shock Alpha

Artist: Thorez Clément

Grunge Rainbow

Artist: Konstantino

Blaze of Light

Artist: Oliver Twardowski

Lazer

Artist: Thorez Clément

Words by Words

Artist: Thorez Clément

Plasma

Artist: Thorez Clément

Journeyman Die

Artist: Josef Barton

Lifestream

Artist: Patrick Ahmann

Afternoon Shadows

Artist: Richard Mohler

Out in the Fields

Artist: RevDesktop

Blue Earth

Artist: Unknown

Asteroid Belt

Artist: Unknown

Aurora Aquantic

Artist: Filipe

Frozen Galaxy

Artist: Dlinx

Dreamy Scene

Artist: Spartan372

Hope

Artist: Studio83

City on the Brink

Artist: Allen

Your Choice is Your Way

Artist: Alexander Osokin

The Temple of Music

Artist: Alexander Osokin

Absolute Power of Nature

Artist: Alexander Osokin

Dreamlake

Artist: Alexander Osokin

Magic Valley

Artist: Unknown

Lakeside

Artist: Mark K.

Offensive of the Winter

Artist: Alexander Osokin

Core Worlds

Artist: Alexander Osokin

Decampment

Artist: Tobias Roestch

Strange World VII

Artist: Javier Ocasio

Floating Island

Artist: Javier Ocasio

White Night

Artist: Javier Ocasio

Run Away Together

Artist: Marwia

It Was a Beautiful Day

Artist: Javier Ocasio

Earth: The End

Artist: Tobias Roetsch

Pieces of Life

Artist: Luuk Vermeyden

Freedom

Artist: Daniel

Thanks to UsingMac Sponsors

2009-06-30T14:00:00Z

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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 one of those. And this time, we are giving away 5x CleanMyMac as courtesy of MacPaw.

What's CleanMyMac

CleanMyMac is a system utility that cleans unneeded files. It will help slim universal binaries, clean logs, cache, and leftovers from uninstallation of applications and remove unneeded languages. Basically, it slims down your disk usage.

Some of the reasons you will want to use CleanMyMac:

Easy to use, user-friendly interface with drag and drop nature
Able to removes useless language translations
Quick and secure file eraser
Able to clean up leftover from previously removed applications and widgets

Useful Links

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How to Win

In order to win one of these CleanMyMac licenses. Here's what you should do:

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5 commentators with the best answers will be able to walk away with a CleanMyMac. Contest will be closed next Monday, 29th June 2009. Good luck, folks!

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 free applications for Mac OS X (including application launcher, easy note-taker application, data backup tool, data sharing utility, etc) that can significantly boost your productivity.

Let us know which one is your favorite!

Quicksilver

Quicksilver is a super fast application launcher empowered with many time-saving actions. The moment you get used to Quicksilver, you won't think of any other application launchers.

Think

Think is a light application that lets you fully focus on your work. By forcing you to concentrate only on one active application, Think improves your concentration and hence boosts your productivity.

Cashbox

Cashbox is a personal finance application for Mac OS X designed to make managing your personal finances a breeze. Cashbox was designed to be a quick and simple to use application for managing personal finances.

Anxiety

Anxiety is a super-lightweight to-do list application for Mac OS X Leopard that synchronizes with iCal and Mail. Its sleek and simple user interface won't affect your workflow thus increasing your productivity.

Sidenote

Sidenote tries to catch the "Stickies" spirit but in the form of a multi-document drawer that will hide in the corner of your screen (left or right). You can use it to take all your daily notes, include images and easily modify text color and font.

Growl

Growl is a Mac OS X applications that unintrusively notifies you when something happens.

SketchBox

SketchBox is a Sticky Notes Managerr for your Mac. SketchBox enables you to enter text, make drawings, and set reminders for each sticky notes.

Name Mangler

Name Mangler is a batch file renamer application, which supports several renaming tasks, such as Find & Replace (with or without regular expression), Number Sequential, Set Extension, and many others common batch renaming functions.

Appointments

Appointments is an application that can assist in keeping record of customers, contact persons, and important events. Appointments save the information in several separated dictionaries to provide higher convenience in user interface, like sorting and filtering of data.

FreeMind

FreeMind is a free mind-mapping application written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. Using FreeMind, you can map your ideas to a more solid state, i.e. a mind map.

iClockr

iClockr is a simple Mac application that helps you in tracking your time. With iClockr, it's very easy to calculate total time used to finish a certain project.

iTunes Alarm

This iTunes utility turns your Mac into alarm clock. It'll gently put you to sleep then quietly do the same for your Mac. When its time to wake up, it'll wake the computer first, and then rouse you from your slumber with music of your choice.

SnapNDrag

SnapNDrag is an application that has its own clipboard. By simply clicking on SnapNDrag button, the screenshot is saved into SnapNDrag clipboard and can be dragged anywhere you want.

SnapNDrag also supports multiple file formats for saving wider range of image quality and for supporting variety of screenshots.

Mojo

Mojo is a music sharing application. It lets you browse, select, and download music from other Mojo users that can be found within the same network.

The free version of Mojo limits the number of internet buddies, but doesn't have any usage limitations (great news, folks!).

Maybe you feel that Mojo doesn't have any relation with productivity, but for me, Mojo has saved me a lot of time on searching for music that my friends have.

EverSave

EverSave allows saving of all documents in a specific time interval or by changing frontmost application thus avoiding data loss during application crash.

The Unarchiver

The Unarchiver is an archive unpacker application for Mac OS X, which is designed to handle more formats than built-in BOMArchiveHelper.

The Unarchiver supports filenames with foreign character sets and also supports files created with non-English versions of other operating systems.

Service Scrubber

Service Scrubber is a free application for Mac OS X that helps you in arranging available services of your Mac. With Service Scrubber, you can restructure, change keyboard shortcut, and disable/enable services.

With modified services menu, your productivity will be significantly improved.

Burn

Using Burn, you can easily burn your files to a disc, choose different filesystems to share the file with, and for burning Audio CD, Burn offers MP3 tag editing to personalize your disc.

iBackup

iBackup supports scheduled backups of files, folders, and applications. Furthermore, iBackup uses plugins to backup application settings, reducing the hassle of tweaking the Mac all over again.

AppCleaner

AppCleaner is a small application that allows you to uninstall unwanted apps. AppCleaner unveils many related application files that are distributed in the System and deletes those small files during application removal.

Folx Downloader

Folx is a free downloader for Mac OS X. Folx can download files of any size via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. With the technology of multi-threading tasks, Folx can give maximum download speed.

Folx is still in its beta version. Hope that it's still free after the release of its official version.

Dropbox

With Dropbox, you can share your files online and across computers. If you're working with several people, Dropbox can save your time in distributing your documents as well as in backing up important files.

The free version of Dropbox can support up to 2GB of data storage, which is already quite big for normal usage.

Snippely

Snippely is a basic text and code organizational Adobe AIR Application. Snippely has a nice user interface, suitable for storing bits of code, quick notes and memos, thus avoiding cluttering your hard drives with scattered "snippets".

Perhaps you've discovered other productivity applications, mind sharing with us?

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.

Switching to Audio Line-In Port

By using Audio Line-In Port, you will be able to record the sound right from the microphone, reducing most of noise from environment.

Here are the steps to switch to line-in port:

Open System Preferences…
Click on the speaker icon to go inside Sound Preferences Pane
Choose the Input tab and switch the device for sound input to Line In
You can check the changes by connecting microphone to your Mac and observe the input level (sound will be taken in only if you speak to the mic)

Recording with GarageBand

Upon launching GarageBand, you will be asked to choose what type of recording you want to make. In the case of recording speech, choosing Voice from the menu will be the most suitable.

Since we are not going to record a song, you can choose anything for the tempo.

After going into the Editor Window, these things are essential to record speech with GarageBand (instead of recording song):

Turn off Metronome (command-u)

Switch to record with No Effects from Track Info Pane on the right side of the window

Change Input Source accordingly. For my MacBook, it's Mono 1 (Built-in Input)

Enable Automatic Level Control by ticking the checkbox
Display Timer in LCD instead of Measures by choosing Control → Show Time in LCD (command-shift-f)

After setting up all the essentials, you can start the recording by pressing R to record and Space to pause.

Consider the recording has finished here, let's move on to next step.

Enhancing the Result

Though we have done many preventions to omit the noise, some may still be present in our speech recording. Thus, we need to add some effects to make our speech recording crystal clear.

To add a new effect, open Track Info Pane, go to Edit tab and Click on the empty spot that says, "Click here to add an effect".

Speech Enhancer

This effect is very useful in reducing noise. Not only it has the preset to suit female/male voice, but also it can be stacked in the case of having loud noise.

To manually set the effect, just click on the icon and a new pane will appear right in front of you.

Bandpass Filter

Some people might have annoying high-pitch voice; Some might have boring low-pitch voice. You can adjust it with GarageBand by using AUBandpass.

For this, it's essential to use manual adjustment: use your hearing ability and adjust the slider of center frequency. Note that I usually use around 600Hz (different speakers use different center frequency).

Until this point, you should be able to remove most of unwanted noise. And the next step is to export the recording.

Exporting to MP3 Format

To save your recording in MP3 format, choose Menu Bar → Share → Send Song to iTunes.

In the appearing pane, use MP3 Encoder as the compressor and Good Quality is the most suitable for speech recording.

Sorry for my long writing, hope you don't mind reading it. If you've something to express it, feel free to drop it on the comment box provided.

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 lists synchronization&hellip..”
James Lee
“.. I'm very interested in some of smaller features in Syncmate Expert, notably: bookmarks, folder and notes synchronization, SMS manager and reader, Device info, actions log and Call History..”
Mike
“.. folder synchronization. It is awesome to have folders that sync to my Windows Mobile phone as if it was music syncronizing to an iPod.. ”
Sam G.
“Bookmarks... it is so very painful to have to retype out my web addresses using my SPV M3100's "touchscreen" so the ability to sync bookmarks would save me a lot of time..”
alej11
“.. managing SMS right from Mac computer. Sending, receiving, creating and deleting SMS when working at Mac became possible with SyncMate Expert Edition.
That's just plain and simply awesome!”

License codes are on their way, should reach their places soon!

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 player mode, etc.

In this article, I am going to share with you some of the freewares that can make you experience iTunes like never before. Hope you enjoy it!

You Control: Tunes

Using You Control: Tunes, you will be able to see song titles of your currently playing track. This will help you keep track of your never-ending songs adding.

Apart from that, You Control: Tunes also helps you browse your iTunes songs without the need to really go inside the big iTunes tab. Though it consumes a bit of your luxury menu bar place, You Control: Tunes should be worth your try.

I Love Stars

I Love Stars is a free application that shows the rating of iTunes' currently playing song in the menu bar. The main idea of getting I Love Stars is to rate your currently played song without the need to go back and forth from iTunes, thus not breaking your workflow.

What I like from I Love Stars is that we can use universal shortcuts to give the rating. And half-star rating also available by double-clicking on the star.

TunesTEXT

TunesTEXT is a dashboard that displays lyrics of the song currently playing in iTunes. This lyrics data can be filled from the song's Get Info → Lyrics pane.

iTunes Current Song Menu

If you want to search for lyrics or display song duration on your menu bar then iTunes Current Song Menu will be a suitable choice for you.

These four freewares are complementing each other, from quickly showing song information up to easily giving star-rating, all of these can make you experience iTunes like never before.

But always there is a chance for me missing some of your favorite iTunes applications, it'll be most appreciated if you can give some inputs in the comment box below.

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 time, we are giving away 5x SyncMate Expert as courtesy of Eltima Software. Basically, SyncMate is one of sync tools between Mac and WinMobile.

What's SyncMate

SyncMate is an easy-to-use sync tool with two versions: SyncMate and SyncMate Expert.

SyncMate Free Edition provides users with basic and most frequently used features, such as Contacts and iCal synchronization.

Besides, SyncMate Free Edition allows checking detailed device information (battery state, etc) and visually analyzing memory usage. With SyncMate Free Edition you can also read SMS directly from Mac OS X computer.

For uses with higher needs, SyncMate also offers expert edition. With SyncMate Expert Edition, users can easily synchronize iTunes and iPhoto, share Internet between Mac and Windows Mobile device and sync time. You can also synchronize separate folders, mail and view all the applications installed on device from Mac. Notes, and To Do’s synchronization is also available with SyncMate Expert Edition.

More than that, SyncMate Expert allows managing SMS right from Mac computer. Sending, receiving, creating and deleting SMS when working at Mac became possible with SyncMate Expert Edition.

Useful Links

Here are useful links for more information about SyncMate:

How to Win

We are giving away 5x SyncMate Expert Editions. Here's what you should do:

Check out the features here: SyncMate for Mac OS
Tell us which of the features you like and give your reasoning, in comment box

5 commentators with the best answers will be able to walk away with SyncMate Expert Edition. Contest will be closed next Monday, 15th June 2009. Good Luck!

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 menubar applications. Let's try them out!

Caffeine

Caffeine is used to prevent our Mac from automatically going to sleep mode and especially useful for watching movie. Using this, we won't be worried that our Mac accidentally going to sleep mode.

Delibar

A simple del.icio.us desktop client for Mac OS X, to help collects all of our bookmarks in the menubar. It's way simpler to access our bookmarks this way.

iStat Menus

With iStat Menus, monitoring our system stats is just a glance away, which is by looking at our menubar. iStat Menus can display various system stats, ranging from CPU Speed and Memory Usage, up to Fans Speed.

Many have known and used this, but I believe it's important to re-emphasize it again.

SpaceControl

SpaceControl is used to track down used and available disk space to let you set alerts based on certain used space thresholds.

Another way to see our remaining space is to use Get Info panel, but that will be much slower than this.

ClipMenu

ClipMenu can assist us in managing clipboard history. With ClipMenu, we can store up to 8 clipboard types, from plain text to image. This is very useful if you've different tasks at hand that need more than 1 clipboards.

DiggUpdate

DiggUpdate is the fastest and easiest way to receive updates from Digg. When a new stories hit the front page or friends digg a story, we will be presented with a gorgeous notification window.

Check Off

Check Off is a to-do list that calmly sits on Mac's menubar. Though it's just a simple interface, but with this we can easily keep track of our tasks.

BwanaDik

BwanaDik is a menubar app that monitors network for a good connection. It can also quickly copy WAN and LAN IP address to the menubar.

Eigenclock

Eigenclock is a menubar clock that features a fully customizable menubar display format, as well as a nice-looking calendar in a pop-up menu.

FMenu

FMenu is a menu extra providing customizable Growl notifications about various Facebook events, a menu to easily access common Facebook pages.

It's really really useful for Facebook addict.

Isolator

Isolator is a small menubar application that helps you concentrate. Upon turning it on, it will isolate you from other running applications by showing only one active application.

I love this! It really helps me concentrate on one thing.

WeatherDock

WeatherDock allows us to display weather information the way we want it. And it's sitting on our menubar, allowing us to easily update and show current weather status.

HimmelBar

HimmelBar provides an icon in the menu bar to quickly access your installed applications located under standard locations such as local, user, network and developer applications.

HimmelBar's behavior resembles that of our Dock List View, but by installing HimmelBar, we can save our precious Dock space.

ClipboardSharing

ClipboardSharing is a Mac OS X application that allows you to share the contents of your clipboard with other users, either across the network or locally.

I haven't really tried this, but I love the idea to share our clipboards.

PTH iTunes Notifier

PTH iTunes Notifier is a Mac OS X utility that gives you full control over iTunes from within the menubar. It gives you a simple controller on the menubar that allows you to forward/reverse/play/pause with a single mouse click.

IPMenulet

IPMenulet shows the current external IP address in the menubar.

URLWell

Easily save and access URLs from a drop-down list. You can also drag-n-drop URL from your web browser and the URL will be added to this URLWell.

MeNotes

With MeNotes, we can easily create a new note from menubar to capture our quick thoughts. I know we will need this, especially if we are not specially trained to crystallize our thoughts.

coconutWiFi

coconutWiFi displays you a small aqua-bubble at the top of your screen which indicates whether you're in range of a wireless network or not.

F.lux

F.lux makes the color of our computer's display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.

Menubar Countdown

Menubar Countdown is a simple countdown timer that displays itself on the right side of the Mac OS X menu bar.

Temperature Monitor

Temperature Monitor is an application to read out all accessible temperature sensors in Macintosh computers. The program can visualize the history graphs of the readings, display measured values in a large variety of fashions, or announce readings by speech output.

SMARTReporter

SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drive.

Spirited Away

Spirited Away checks each running application's activity, and if an application isn't active for a certain fixed time, Spirited Away hides the application automatically. It is, in effect, Spirited Away. *laugh*

I Love Stars

I Love Stars is my new freebie application that shows the rating of iTunes' currently playing song in the menu bar.

Anyway, half-star rating is not supported in this menubar application.

Process Wizard

Process Wizard is a menu hack that allows you to access to all the processes of your system (applications, background applications, user processes, non user processes) and to change their priority.

InstantShot!

InstantShot! offers classical screenshot functionality for capturing the whole screen, a portion of it or a window and also the option to make timed screenshots or to make delayed captures over time.

RSS Menu

RSS Menu is a systemwide menu that allows you to read and organize your favourite RSS or Atom feeds. The articles are automatically updated and you will get a notification when new articles are available or when some other event occurs.

WeatherBug

WeatherBug Alert for Mac helps you plan your day with confidence by putting severe weather alerts and your live temperature on your desktop.

AllBookmarks

AllBookmarks adds a new item to your Mac OS X menu bar giving you quick access to all your bookmarks. All your Safari, Firefox and Flock bookmarks are shown and can be selected.

Pauser

Pauser is a menubar application that allows you to pause and then continue any process running on your Mac OS X user account.

Nomu

Nomu is an application that helps you to quickly access your NeoOffice documents and templates.

Nocturne

Nocturne is a simple app for switching a computer to night vision mode.

Perhaps you've other kind of menubar applications to share with us, why don't you speak out in the comment box provided?

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 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:

These wallpapers are copyrighted © usingmac, please kindly ask for permission if you want to redistribute them.

Apple

Simple Apple logo to decorate your Mac.

Download Links: 1280x800 · 1440x900 · 1680x1050 · 1920x1200 · 2560x1600

Half Apple

Part of the Apple is hidden behind transparent glass.

Download Link: 1280x800 · 1440x900 · 1680x1050 · 1920x1200 · 2560x1600

Apple Storm

When one Apple logo is not enough to spice up your desktop, then you should use more than one…

Download Links: 1280x800 · 1440x900 · 1680x1050 · 1920x1200 · 2560x1600

Apple Postcards

Not the real postcard though, just the kind of admiration to some innovative Apple products.

Download Links: 1280x800 · 1440x900 · 1680x1050 · 1920x1200 · 2560x1600

Apple in the Dark: Mac Pro

Inspired by dark room photography and combining with elegant design of Mac Pro, this wallpaper emphasizes on Apple logo by dimming out other objects.

Download Links: 1280x800 · 1440x900 · 1680x1050 · 1920x1200 · 2560x1600

Apple in the Dark: Mac Mini

Two Mac Minis are put side by side. Subtle glow effect is added to the Apple logo, creating the feeling that the only light source is coming out of the Apple.

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Apple in the Dark: iMac (Front)

Because many of us use iMac, so we decide to create this wallpaper of iMac with subtle glowing Apple.

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Apple in the Dark: iMac

iMac view captured from below. I personally love the glowing Apple.

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Apple Discs

Initially, trying to create a footsteps of Apple logo, but end up with this.

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Apple Folder

A customization of default Leopard folder icon.

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Evolution of Apple Products 1

2009-05-26T17:17:00Z

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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1976-1980: The Early Years

April 1976 - 1977

Apple I

First contribution of Steve Wozniak to the field of personal computer. Steve Jobs insisted it to be sold.

Code: -
Price: $666.66

1977 - 1980

Apple II

Enhanced from Steve Wozniak's Apple I design with plastic case design.

Code: -
Price: $1,298

June 1980 - 1985

Apple III

Designed with sophisticated new operating system to emulate most of Apple II programs

Code: Sara
Price: $4,340

1981-1985: Lisa and Macintosh

January 1983 - March 1985

Apple IIe

The most successful Apple computers ever, at that time.

Code: Diana
Price: $1,395

January 1983 - August 1986

Lisa

This computer is named for one of the designer's daughters.

Code: Lisa
Price: $9,995

January 1984 - October 1985

Macintosh 128k

The Macintosh was the first computer that incorporated Graphical User Interface into it.

Code: Macintosh
Price: $2,495

April 1984 - November 1990

Apple IIc

First compact model in the Apple lineup and considered as a 'closed system'.

Code: Pippin, Yoda, Teddy
Price: no data

March 1985 - 1993

Apple IIe Platinum

Enhancements were to add the compatibility with another models: Apple II+ and Apple IIc.

Code: LCD
Price: no data

1986-1993: Rise and Fall

January 1986 - October 1990

Macintosh Plus

The first Mac to include SCSI port, allow various external peripherals, and first platinum case color.

Code: Mr. T
Price: $2,600

September 1986 - December 1992

Apple IIgs

The last and the most powerful member of Apple II family.

Code: Cortland, Phoenix, Gumby
Price: no data

March 1987 - January 1990

Macintosh II

The first Mac with color capabilities. This graphic card is capable of handling 16.7 million colors.

Code: Little Big Mac, Reno, Uzi
Price: $3,898

March 1987 - August 1989

Macintosh SE

The first Mac that includes an Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) to allow up to sixteen input devices.

Code: PlusPlus, Aladdin, Chablis
Price: $2,898

September 1988 - October 1990

Macintosh IIx

Advanced version of Macintosh II.

Code: Spock, Stratos
Price: $7,769

January 1989 - October 1990

Macintosh SE/30

Macintosh IIx put inside Macintosh SE case.

Code: Green Jade, Fafnir
Price: $4,369

March 1989 - February 1991

Macintosh IIcx

Smaller version of Macintosh IIx

Code: Aurora, Cobra, Atlantic
Price: $5,369

September 1989 - February 1993

Macintosh IIci

Faster version of Macintosh IIcx

Code: Pacific, Stingray, Cobra II
Price: $6,700

September 1989 - October 1991

Macintosh Portable

Apple's first attempt to create a portable Macintosh

Code: Laguna, Riveria, Esprit, Guiness
Price: $6,500

March 1990 - April 1992

Macintosh IIfx

Fastest Mac ever built at that time.

Code: Stealth, BlackBird, Weed-Whacker
Price: $10,000

October 1990 - September 1992

Macintosh Classic

Reissue of Macintosh Plus with 8 MHz processor. The first sub $1,000 Mac.

Code: XO
Price: $999

October 1990 - March 1993

Macintosh IIsi

Microphone included.

Code: Oceanic, Erickson, Raffica
Price: $3,800

October 1990 - December 1992

Macintosh LC

Low-cost Mac that aimed at home market.

Code: Pinball, Elsie, Prism
Price: $2,400

October 1991 - September 1993

Macintosh Classic II

Macintosh Classic with re-styled case.

Code: Montana, Apollo
Price: $1,900

October 1991 - March 1993

Macintosh Quadra 700

The first Mac shipped in a tower case.

Code: Shadow, Spike, Evo 200
Price: $6,000

October 1991 - May 1992

Macintosh Quadra 900

More expandable version of Quadra 700.

Code: Darwin, Eclipse, Premise 500
Price: $7,200

October 1991 - August 1992

PowerBook 100

The first really portable Mac by Apple. But with slow processor and passive-matrix screen.

Code: Asahi, Derringer, Rosebud
Price: $2,500

October 1991 - August 1992

PowerBook 140

Counterpart to PowerBook 100 with internal floppy drive included.

Code: Tim LC, Tim Lite, Leary
Price: $2,000

March 1992 - March 1993

Macintosh LCII

Upgrade of the original Macintosh LC. More affordable.

Code: Foster Farms
Price: $1,240

May 1992 - October 1995

Macintosh Quadra 950

The big upgrade in speed, 'speed bump' of Macintosh Quadra 900.

Code: Amazon, Zydeco
Price: $7,200

August 1992 - June 1993

PowerBook 145

'Speed Bumped' from PowerBook 140.

Code: Colt 45
Price: $2,150

October 1992 - October 1993

Macintosh IIvx

Aiming at mid-range market with a new case design.

Code: Brazil
Price: $2,950

October 1992 - August 1993

PowerBook 160

The first PowerBook with the ability to drive external color monitor up to 8-bit color.

Code: Brooks
Price: $2,480

October 1992 - April 1994

PowerBook Duo 270c

Improved version of the previos Duos that also adds active-matrix 16 bit screen.

Code: Escher
Price: $3,100

October 1992 - May 1994

PowerBook DuoDock

The DuoDock allowed Duo product line to become office desktop models.

Code: Gemini
Price: no data

February 1993 - October 1993

Macintosh Centris 650

Housed in low-profile case, like the design nowadays.

Code: -
Price: $2,700

February 1993 - May 1994

Macintosh Color Classic

Identical to Macintosh Classic II, but enhanced with a color screen and larger ROM.

Code: Slice
Price: $1,390

February 1993 - February 1994

Macintosh LC III

Redesigned PDS slot.

Code: Vail, Elsie III
Price: $750

February 1993 - March 1994

Macintosh Quadra 800

Newly designed mini-tower case. Powered by 33MHz processor.

Code: Fridge, Wombat 33
Price: $4,700

February 1993 - December 1993

PowerBook 165c

The first color PowerBook.

Code: Monet
Price: $3,400

February 1993 - March 1994

Workgroup Server 80

Based on the Quadra 800 motherboard, bundled with server software.

Code: Blugu
Price: no data

June 1993 - March 1994

PowerBook 180c

First PowerBook that includes an active-matrix 256 color screen.

Code: Hokusai
Price: $4,160

June 1993 - February 1994

Macintosh LC-520

Apple attempted to create all-in-one computer in 1990s.

Code: Hook
Price: $2,000

August 1993 - March 1994

Newton Message Pad (OMP)

Apple's entry into the Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) market.

Code: Newton
Price: no data

October 1993 - October 1994

Macintosh LC-475

Also named as Macintosh Quadra 605. The most affordable Quadra ever.

Code: Aladdin, Primus
Price: $900

October 1993 - February 1994

Macintosh TV

One of only a few Macs to have ever been black.

Code: Peter Pan, LD50
Price: no data

1994-1997: Attempts at Reinvention

February 1994 - March 1995

Macintosh LC-550

Replacing Macintosh LC-520

Code: Hook 33
Price: $1,200

March 1994 - January 1996

Power Macintosh 7100

Code: Carl Sagan, BHA, LAW
Price: $2,900

April 1994 - November 1994

PowerBook Duo 280

The Duo 280 added '040 power to the Duo line.

Code: Yeager
Price: $2,600

May 1994 - September 1995

PowerBook 520c

PowerBook with dual-scan 256-color screen.

Code: BlackBird LC
Price: $2,900

July 1994 - October 1995

Macintosh Quadra 630

The last of the Quadra line.

Code: Crusader, Show Biz, Show & Tell
Price: $1,200

July 1994 - October 1995

PowerBook 150

Apple's first truly affordable PowerBook. Fuzzy passive matrix screen.

Code: JeDI
Price: $1,300

October 1994 - June 1996

Newton Message Pad 120

Better handwriting recognition, improved data backup, and improved user interface.

Code: Gelato
Price: $599

April 1995 - April 1996

Power Macintosh 5200 LC

First LC model with a PowerPC chip

Code: Trailblazer, Bongo, Rebound
Price: $2,000

May 1995 - ???

PowerBook 550c

Slick black case.

Code: Bonsai
Price: no data

May 1995 - 1997

Power Macintosh 6200

PowerMac 5200 in a Quadra 630-style case.

Code: -
Price: no data

May 1995 - February 1997

Power Macintosh 7200

Bringing PCI to the entry-level.

Code: Catalyst
Price: $1,700

August 1995 - June 1996

PowerBook 190

The last 680X0 machine Apple ever built.

Code: Omega
Price: $1,700

August 1995 - 1996

PowerBook 5300

First PowerPC PowerBook.

Code: M2
Price: $2,300

August 1995 - February 1997

PowerBook Duo 2300c

The first PowerPC Duo powered by 100MHz processor.

Code: AJ
Price: $3,700

February 1996 - April 1997

Network Server 500/700

Apple's attempt to enter the high-end server market, but sold poorly.

Code: Shiner LE/HE
Price: no data

March 1996 - April 1997

Newton Message Pad 130

Modest feature-upgrade of the NMP-120. On-demand backlit screen.

Code: Dante
Price: no data

August 1996 - 1997

Performa 6400

One of Apple's first consumer-aimed mid-range computer.

Code: Elixer, InstaTower
Price: $2,399

October 1996 - 1998

PowerBook 1400c

The first PowerBook to include an internal CD-ROM drive (6X).

Code: Epic
Price: no data

February 1997 - 1998

PowerBook 3400

The fastest portable computer in the world at that time.

Code: Hooper
Price: $4,500

February 1997 - 1998

Power Macintosh 8600

Came in the same innovative case design as the 9600 and ran on a 200 MHz processor.

Code: Kansas
Price: $2,700

February 1997 - 1998

Power Macintosh 9600

The third wave of Power Macs with new appealing tower design.

Code: Kansas
Price: $4,700

March 1997 - February 1998

eMate 300

Designed specifically for education market. It was the first Newton-based machine with a keyboard.

Code: Project K, Schoolbook
Price: $799

March 1997 - February 1998

Newton Message Pad 2000

An impressive upgrade to the Newton platform. Based on a 162 MHz StrongARM 110 processor (10x faster).

Code: Q
Price: $799

May 1997 - March 1998

20th Anniversary Macintosh

Officially produced in celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of Apple.

Code: Spartacus, Smoke & Mirrors
Price: $1,999

May 1997 - May 1998

PowerBook 2400

The first Apple sub-notebook since the Duo 2300. Co-designed by IBM.

Code: Comet, Nautilus, Mighty Cat
Price: no data

November 1997 - January 1999

Power Macintosh G3

Co-designed by IBM and Motorola. The first processor capable of using a 'backside' cache.

Code: Gossamer
Price: no data

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Continue to read Evolution of Apple Products 2.

Evolution of Apple Products 2

2009-05-26T17:16:00Z

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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1998-2005: Return to Profitability

March 1998 - September 1998

Power Macintosh

All-in-One built on the success of previous built-in monitor models.

Code: Artemis
Price: $1,599

May 1998 - August 1998

PowerBook G3

Filled Apple's PowerBook offerings, from low to high end, with a single motherboard design.

Code: Main Street, Wall Street
Price: $2,299

August 1998 - January 1999

iMac

Apple's computer for the new millennium.

Code: Columbus
Price: $1,299

January 1999 - September 1999

Power Macintosh G3

The first Apple model to support FireWire, Apple's new high-speed serial standard.

Code: Yosemite
Price: $1,599-$5,000

May 1999 - February 2000

PowerBook G3

The 'Bronze' was 20% thinner than its predecessor, nearly two pounds lighter, and longer battery life.

Code: 101, Lombard
Price: no data

September 1999 - September 2000

iBook

Was perhaps the most anxiously awaited Apple computer ever. Lacked firewire.

Code: P1
Price: $1,599

September 1999 - July 2000

Power Macintosh G4

A major revision of the PowerMac line. Introduced the new professional color, 'graphite'.

Code: Sawtooth
Price: $2,499-$3,499

October 1999 - July 2000

iMac DV

A major jump forward in Apple's consumer strategy with 2 FireWire ports.

Code: Kihei
Price: $1,299-$1,499

February 2000 - September 2000

iBook SE

A faster iBook with graphite coloring of its iMac DV and PowerMac G4 cousins.

Code: -
Price: $1,799

February 2000 - January 2001

PowerBook G3 (FireWire)

Announced at MacWorld Tokyo with many impressive features added.

Code: Pismo
Price: no data

July 2000 - February 2001

iMac DV+

The processor speed was upped to 450 MHz and the hard drive was doubled to 20 GB.

Code: -
Price: $1,299

August 2000 - July 2001

Power Macintosh G4 Cube

Introduced a dramatic new case design. Housed in an 8x8x8 cube.

Code: Trinity
Price: $1,299-$2,299

September 2000 - May 2001

iBook SE (FireWire)

Apple finally brought FireWire to its entire product line.

Code: -
Price: $1,499-$1,799

January 2001 - October 2001

PowerBook G4

Stylish new Titanium enclosure, which was only 1-inch thick, 0.7-inch thinner than its predecessor.

Code: Mercury
Price: $2,199-$2,999

February 2001 - January 2002

iMac (2001)

A dramatic change in the iMac colors.

Code: -
Price: $1,199

May 2001 - October 2001

iBook (Dual USB)

More aesthetic and Much smaller than its predecessor.

Code: -
Price: $1,299-$1,799

July 2001 - January 2002

Power Macintosh G4 (Quicksilver)

A slightly modified enclosure to the G4 line. It also included a processor speed-bump.

Code: Titan
Price: $1,699-$3,499

October 2001 - April 2003

iPod 1st Gen

The iPod represented Apple's first strike into the digital music market.

Code: Dulcimer
Price: $299-$499

January 2002 - May 2002

iBook 14.1"

A larger 14.1-inch screen and larger case.

Code: -
Price: $1,799

January 2002 - January 2003

iMac (Flat Panel)

Brought both the G4 processor and Super Drive to the consumer space for the first time.

Code: -
Price: $1,299-$1,799

April 2002 - May 2003

eMac

eMac brought G4 power and a 17 inch monitor to the familiar iMac form factor.

Code: -
Price: $999-$1,299

April 2002 - November 2002

PowerBook G4 (DVI)

Included: larger hard drives, faster graphics, and a higher-resolution screen.

Code: Ivory
Price: $2,499-$3,199

May 2002 - January 2004

Xserve

The Xserve was the first Apple machine specifically designed for the server market in years.

Code: -
Price: $2,999-$3,999

July 2002 - January 2003

iMac (17")

Shipped with a CD-RW/DVD-RW SuperDrive, an 80 GB hard drive, and 256 MB of RAM.

Code: -
Price: $1,999

August 2002 - 2004

Power Macintosh G4 (Mirror)

Dual processors were included across the entire line. Enhanced graphics cards.

Code: P57
Price: $2,499-$3,299

January 2003 - ???

PowerBook G4 (17")

Built around a 1-inch thick aluminum case. The first Mac to include FireWire 800.

Code: -
Price: $3,299

March 2003 - January 2004

Xserve RAID

Support for up to 14 180 GB drive modules, each on a separate ATA-100 bus.

Code: -
Price: $5,999-$10,999

April 2003 - July 2004

iPod 3rd Gen

Updated both the look-and-feel and the feature set of the existing iPod. Thinner and lighter.

Code: P97
Price: $299-$499

May 2003 - April 2004

eMac (ATI Graphics)

Included a faster ATI Radeon 7500 Graphics processor and AirPort Extreme support.

Code: -
Price: $799-$1,299

June 2003 - June 2004

Power Macintosh G5

Apple's long-awaited fifth generation PowerPC-based machine. Used IBM-designed processor.

Code: Q37, Grand Prix
Price: $1,999-$2,999

100

October 2003 - April 2004

iBook G4

The final piece in the transition from the G3 to the G4 processor. Included USB 2.0 and Bluetooth support.

Code: -
Price: $1,099-$1,499

101

January 2004 - February 2005

iPod Mini

Built around a 1" 4 GB hard drive. Large enough to hold nearly 1,000 songs.

Code: -
Price: $249

102

January 2004 - January 2008

Xserve G5

More and faster RAM, FireWire 800 and USB 2.0, Serial ATA and PCI-X support.

Code: Q42, Chrysalis
Price: $2,999-$3,999

103

July 2004 - June 2005

iPod 4th Gen

Thinner, lighter, and cheaper.

Code: -
Price: $299-$399

104

August 2004 - May 2005

iMac G5

64-bit G5 processor: faster and more advanced.

Code: -
Price: $1,299-$1,899

105

October 2004 - June 2005

iPod U2

Signatures of the members of U2 laser-engraved on the back.

Code: -
Price: $349

106

October 2004 - June 2005

iPod Photo

Color screen and larger hard drive, used to store and display digital photos.

Code: -
Price: $499-$599

107

January 2005 - September 2006

iPod Shuffle

The most innovative design decision by not including any sort of display.

Code: -
Price: $69-$99

108

January 2005 - ???

Mac Mini

Apple's first monitor-less consumer Mac in more than six years.

Code: Q88
Price: $499-$599

109

September 2005 - September 2006

iPod Nano

Built around a 2 or 4 GB flash memory drive to replace the best-selling iPod mini.

Code: -
Price: $199-$249

110

October 2005 - January 2006

iMac G5 (iSight)

The first Mac to include an integrated iSight camera. Also included: a remote control and 'Front Row'

Code: -
Price: $1,299-$1,699

111

October 2005 - September 2007

iPod Video

The first iPod capable of displaying video.

Code: -
Price: $249-$349

112

2005-Now: The Intel Partnership

January 2006 - October 2008

MacBook Pro

The first portable Mac to use Intel Processors. Introduced the new 'MagSafe' power connector.

Code: -
Price: $1,999-$2,499

113

May 2006 - October 2008

MacBook

Completing the transition of Apple's portable computers to Intel Processors.

Code: -
Price: $1,099-$1,499

114

June 2006 - September 2007

iPod Video U2

Code: -
Price: no data

115

August 2006 - October 2008

Mac Pro

The Mac Pro was based on two 64-bit, dual-core Intel Xeon 5100 'Woodcrest' processors.

Code: -
Price: $2,499

116

September 2006 - ???

iPod Nano 2nd Gen

Redesigned case and increased capacity.

Code: -
Price: $199-$249

117

September 2006 - ???

iPod Shuffle 2nd Gen

Even smaller than the original iPod shuffle. Available in all five colors: silver, blue, green, red, and pink.

Code: -
Price: $49-$69

118

March 2007 - ???

Apple TV

Apple TV allowed streaming of audio and video from any iTunes-equipped computer on the local network.

Code: iTV
Price: $229-$329

119

June 2007 - June 2008

iPhone

A revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough Internet communications device.

Code: iPhone
Price: $399-$499

120

August 2007 - ???

iMac (2007)

Full case redesign, featuring a striking new aluminum case design.

Code: -
Price: $1,199-$2,299

121

September 2007 - ???

iPod Classic

Smaller, thinner, and offer increased connectivity. Came in an all-metal case.

Code: -
Price: $249-$349

122

September 2007 - August 2008

iPod Nano 3rd Gen

Shorter and wider than any previous iPod nano, for which it garnered the nickname 'fat boy'.

Code: -
Price: $149-$199

123

September 2007 - September 2008

iPod Touch

The iPhone without the phone, without the camera, and without bluetooth.

Code: -
Price: $299-$499

124

January 2008 - ???

MacBook Air

The thinnest laptop, ever.

Code: -
Price: $1,799-$2,499

125

January 2008 - ???

Xserve (2008)

Options included dual quad-core 2.8 GHz/3.0 GHz processors, 3 TB storage via three swappable bays.

Code: -
Price: $2,999

126

June 2008 - ???

iPhone 3G

Included new features: 3G networking and built-in GPS.

Code: -
Price: $199-$299

127

September 2008 - ???

iPod Nano 4th Gen

Capacity Doubled. Accelerometer added. 'Genius' playlist feature installed.

Code: -
Price: $149-$199

128

September 2008 - ???

iPod Touch 2nd Gen

Able to purchase and download device-resident applications directly from the App Store.

Code: -
Price: $229-$399

129

October 2008 - ???

MacBook Pro (2008)

Featured a striking glass-covered screen, and a new glass-covered, clickable multi-touch trackpad.

Code: -
Price: $1,999-$2,499

130

October 2008 - ???

MacBook (2008)

Included a faster graphics chipset, a faster bus, and a glass-covered clickable Multi-Touch trackpad.

Code: -
Price: $1,299-$1,599

131

I love the simple design of latest iMac, how about you?