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New Design. The White UsingMac
After several months of black-theme UsingMac, we've decided to transform into white-theme design. Perhaps, some of you might feel surprised by this sudden change, but we hope that you feel comfortable with our new design.
Why Do We Choose White?
Having browsed through most of the websites that contain guide or information, rarely can we see them using white-on-black layout. That's when we think of changing into white-on-black layout.
What Are The Changes We Made?
If you have visited our site before, you would notice that the look-and-feel of several places have been tweaked, for example: mini highlights on the top now is incorporated with simple round button, you can browse through those highlights by clicking on the button.
Besides that change, we have also made changes to
- Logo → Now with simple text instead of image, for faster loading
- Search Bar → Located at right most of our navigation bar
- Sidebar → More appealing hover effect is added for better navigation
- Comment Box → It has been enlarged and now accept line break
And the biggest change would be the change from Black to White.
What Do You Think?
We believe that we are still far from perfect. It's really appreciated if you can give us any constructive feedback or comment on this new design. Not only for giving feedback, you can also try out our new comment box.
Hope you enjoy this new experience with UsingMac.
Elegant Apple Mockups 2: Mythical MacTouch
"If MacTouch is to be built by the big family of Apple, what will it look like", this question seems to be vibrating near my ears all of sudden. Out of my curiosity, I go Google-ing for MacTouch.
Some remarkably interesting MacTouch/MacBook Touch mockups, possibly made by Apple fans, are found.
Elegant Apple Mockups
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?
10 Most Practical Apple Photoshop Tutorials
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.
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]
