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Poll. Your Favorite Mac Desktop
This article is intended to give exposure to other contestants that have submitted their works. The screenshots of their submissions are listed below. And you can cast vote on any that you like (you can choose more than one) at the end of this article.
Let's vote for your favorite Mac Desktop and support the one that you like!
Hint. You can use keystrokes Cmd-[↓] to quickly scroll down to end of page.
The Winners of UsingMac Contest 1
After long consideration and development time to put up all submissions into our new gallery, finally we can announce to our readers the winners of this contest.
UsingMac Contest 1. Deadline Reminder
Just to remind you all that the end of this month will be the deadline for UsingMac Contest. If you haven't participated in the contest, make sure to submit the screenshot of What's on Your Mac Screen and stand a chance to win fabulous prizes.
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Extending UsingMac Contest
I'm really excited to grab a copy of Snow Leopard and successfully upgraded my MacBook to Mac OS X 10.6. And amazed by many new feature enhancements, I decided to extend the UsingMac Contest so that you can also submit a screenshot of your Mac desktop, extended until end of September 2009.
It's very simple to participate in the contest: you only need to submit screenshot(s) of your Mac desktop to show the beauty of Mac. Or, if you're proud of your Mac hardware setup, you can also submit the photo of your Mac.
The image uploader is provided at the bottom of this linked article. Some examples are provided after the jump.
UsingMac Contest. Beauty of the Mac
Upon seeing my Mac setup, I always have this kind of excitement to share it to everyone.
I believe some of you might feel the same. Now, it's the chance for you to show your
Mac setup to other Mac users as we've arranged this contest for everyone to submit their
Mac setups!
Update. You can also submit your desktop setup to show the world how cool is your Mac.
Contest Prize
Before starting with the requirements for this contest, let's see the prize for winners.
- 1st Place. Pixelmator + Layers + Concentrate
- 2nd Place. Layers + Concentrate
- 3rd Place. Concentrate
Let's continue to the description of the prizes and how to win.
5% Discount for Mac Sale Bundle
It's only several days left until the end of The Mac Sale. In this bundle, you can grab up to 10 great applications worth of $450 with just $49.99. This is the first good news.
The second good news we have here: you can get another 5% discount for the bundle.
If you use USINGMAC as your coupon code, you can get that discount.
For more information of the applications inside the bundle, you can visit The Mac Sale.
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Mac Resources: January 2009
Throughout this whole month, many articles have been posted on UsingMac, teaching many nifty tricks as well as interesting stuffs to enhance your Mac life.
Now, it's time for roundup of January 2009 resources.
Highlights of 2008
Before starting the new year, we will take a brief look at UsingMac resources during year 2008, including remarkable Mac applications, killer tips and tricks, awesome wallpapers collection, time saver keyboard shortcuts and other interesting stuffs.
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?
Wallpapers of the Month: December 2008
We're back again with the stunning wallpapers collection! Though we just started two months ago, we feel joyful to receive overhelming response from our readers.
Our eyes are just as sharp as last time to filter out the best wallpapers from huge selection of wallpapers around the world. As usual, we prefer to present you wallpapers with distraction level as low as possible in order to maintain your productivity level at its highest.
Before proceeding further, we would like to suggest you other great wallpapers compilation that we've made:
- Remarkable Apple Wallpapers
- 200 Mind-Blowing Nature Wallpapers
- Beautiful, Inspiring Firefox Wallpapers
- Wallpapers of the Month: October 2008 & November 2008
Here you go, our wallpapers selection for this month!
Mac Resources: November 2008
Happy new month, and hope this last month will be this year best month to close the year. For those who have been following usingMac up for quite a while, we are really thankful for all the watching, comments and suggestions. We have done our to bring the best stuffs, tips and tricks for all current and soon-to-be Mac users.
We compiled couple of important, useful and mostly interesting roundups that has happened in the past month alone. Hope you will enjoy them.
Wallpapers of the Month: November 2008
Without even noticing, time flies by so fast and another month has come upon us. Deep inside my heart, I believe that all of us have already bored with the collection of wallpapers currently on hand and starting to go out seeking for fresh and new wallpapers.
After days of rumbling around the net, we on UsingMac are proud to present you collection of best wallpapers for this month, November 2008. These wallpapers are chosen by the eyes of us to make your widescreen display even more attractive yet still keeping the distraction level to its lowest.
Here you go, wallpapers of the month!
Mac Resources: October 2008
As I can say, this month is the most fascinating and historical month for UsingMac. We're launching new beautifully designed sleek template for UsingMac on this month.
Not limited to that, UsingMac has also compiled bunch of useful Mac resources for you. With these resources, some of you can be benefited by its productivity boosting nature while some of you can be proud of the power of the Mac customization that is exposed to you by our UsingMac team.
We Love Mac, They Do Too
Today is the Blog Action Day. The theme for Blog Action Day is poverty. Bloggers around the world are gathering and share their precious time to erase the word of poverty from our history.
For us, having many MacBooks are not satisfying enough. But for some people, simply holding a MacBook is such an unforgettable moment.
Let's together we raise the money, giving them the hope, giving them a brighter future, giving them a chance to become a Mac fanboy. A little portion of your help means a lot to them. You can help them by donating to the Global Fund or donating to Kiva.
Here I've grabbed some of the photos from the web, portraying the love of Mac. Hope that by seeing these pictures, you can share some of your love.