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When is Your Mac Birthday?


Maybe this question is too strange for you (and your Mac). But, this is a surprisingly interesting question to be asked; to know more about your Mac. Who knows that tomorrow will be your Mac birthday.

Do you want to know when is your Mac birthday?

Batch Resize Images


While resizing all my images, photos and wallpapers, I came into this great trick to easily batch resize images that I've never read somewhere else before; You can simply use Preview to batch resize images.

Wanna know more?

WWDC 2008: Welcoming iPhone 3G


First of all, I really want to thanks Apple for its kindness to provide us "only" this screenshot of iPhone 3G after WWDC 2008 finished.

Actually, I hope to see live broadcast of this year WWDC from Apple official website. After refreshing hundreds of time on the site, I decided to give up my stubbornness.

Update: Apple has uploaded WWDC 2008 Keynote Address.

Mail Tips: Marking Messages


In order to easily distinguish between useful Mail and useless Mail from your cluster of messages inside Mail, you can use four types of message marking as your assistance. These four types of marking available in Mail are: Mark As Unread, Mark As Flagged, Mark As Junk Mail and Mark As Hidden.

How to use these four message markings for your Mail?

90 More Nice Apple Wallpapers


Apple Wallpaper

Here again, UsingMac.com presents great stumble of Apple wallpapers for you to enjoy. I hope these Apple wallpapers can help you enhance your experience in using Mac. Maybe, just maybe, these great Apple wallpapers can impress your PC friends and turn them into Mac users. *evil smile*

Set Custom Incoming Mail Sound


Everytime you have incoming message to your Mail, you will realize that there is a sound echoed by your Mail. This sound is set as New Mail Sound by your Mail default. The fun thing here is you can set this incoming Mail sound with custom sound.

Do you want to this setting custom Mail sound can be done?

What Do You Expect from Snow Leopard?


Reading article from ArsTechnica about next Apple plan: Mac OS X Code Named Snow Leopard, May be Pure Cocoa shocks me. It's only for Intel which means in the very near future, my beloved PowerPC cannot be upgraded.

Quick Way to Set Image as Desktop Picture


There is a bunch of ways to set an image as your Desktop picture, such as using Quicksilver or using Automator.

Recently, I've found another quick way to do that. Do you want to know what's that?

Sort Images with Leopard Preview


Unlike in Tiger where you can do image sorting with simple click anywhere on the sidebar - as discussed in my earlier post Meet the Preview Ultimate Sort Ability, in order to perform images sorting in Leopard Preview you need to click on the gear button (to the left of the slider), expand the menu and choose Sort By.

Set Finder Background as Solid Color


Not long time ago (around 7-8 months), I've posted an article about How to Set Finder Background which teach you how to set custom image as your Finder background replacing the default solid white color.

Note: Don't see the cute icons, see the solid color background..

But, how if you want to set solid color as your Finder background?

Free Humanoid Mac Icons


Check out these cute icons. Maybe some of them don't have two legs, like humans, but at least they've got a head and two arms.

Kalijubees Mac

Download Here

Delete Files without Going to Trash Folder


Warning: The deleted files are not recoverable.

This is just a simple and quick UNIX tip to delete files without going to trash folder first. What are the steps?

Delete Normal Files

  1. Open Terminal.app
  2. Type rm -rf
  3. Highlight files/folders you want to delete
  4. Drop them all to Terminal
  5. Execute it (pressing )

Bookmarklets for Mac Safari


Above: Safari splitted by two. Done with bookmarklet.

There is a way to quickly run short script in your Safari web browser; It's by using bookmarklets. Bookmarklets are bookmark items and bookmark items are not limited to only url address; We can also make short javascript function as bookmark item by simply dropping the favicon to bookmark bar.

Free Download YouTube Video with Safari



Most of us like to watch YouTube, right? (Hope so). And it's surprisingly simple and easy to download those YouTube videos. Do you want to know? Follow next three steps.

Impressive Safari Plugins


Safari has been optimized for Mac and because of that, it becomes the best browser for running on Mac. However, with Firefox empowered by plenty of plugins, it's confusing to determine which one to choose: Safari or Firefox?

After searching around the web, I found several impressive plugins for Safari, such as del.icio.us bookmark, StumbleUpon toolbar, Tab Exposé, Greasemonkey script customizer, and many others. Interested?