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Elegant Apple Mockups

Stamp: 01 September 2008 | 6 Comments | Back to Previous Page

Submitted to Flickr by Miguel Suárez, this Black MacBook Pro hits Digg front page in a sudden.

"Once you go black…"
"Holy crap my wallet is burning."

Applying the black skin of MacBook Black, combining with the smoothness of MacBook Air edge and adding glass keypad along with the beautifully engraved MacBook Pro brand there makes this design really looks elegant.

Do you think Apple will take this creative, elegant mockup and implement for the future MacBook design?

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10 Most Practical Apple Photoshop Tutorials

Stamp: 15 August 2008 | 1 Comments | Back to Previous Page

As a Mac user, I'm sure you also have a good sense of design. But, having good sense of design alone isn't enough, it'll be much better if you can actually learn and master the way to design cool things like what Apple did in Photoshop. So if you haven't had a Photoshop, buy one?

I believe I'm lucky enough to discover these wonderful Photoshop tutorials, including creating Coldplay inspired portrait, designing shiny photorealistic Apple remote, creating Apple mighty mouse, etc. You can see the full list after the jump.

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22 Apple Inspired Free WordPress Themes

Stamp: 31 July 2008 | 15 Comments | Back to Previous Page

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]

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