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Stunning Mac Setups 3: The Minimalist Effect

It's an undeniable fact that minimalist mac setups can draw our productivity to its fullest. Some of my favorites mac setups are those with clean, big desk supported by comfortable lighting condition.

If you want to decorate your cubicle or even turn it to be your productivity workplace, these setups will give you some inspirations to start with.

Check Your Hard Disk

Check Remaining Hard Disk Capacity

I remember in my old Windows day, I regularly check for my remaining hard disk capacity, just because I was too poor to have high-end hard disk. Now, we've large capacity of hard disk drive, making us overlook the need of checking remaining hard disk capacity.

To check on remaining hard disk capacity as well as used hard disk space, you can do the following steps:

Go to Your Desktop
Select your Hard Disk Icon
Control-Click and select Get Info (keystrokes: Command-I)
Expand the General section by clicking on the triangle next to the wording

Maintaining Battery Life

If somehow you happen to hear someone said that it's fine to connect your MacBook battery to power socket all the time, then it's unlucky that you've got the wrong idea. Plugging your battery all the time will shorten your battery life.

Checking Battery Condition

There is an application called Coconut Battery that can help you inspect your battery life.

How is your battery condition?

Stunning Mac Setups 2: Youngsters Edition

Last time, I've collected some Stunning Mac Setups from people around the world. Recently, I landed on a forum where some youngsters are discussing and posting their Mac setups.

Maybe some of you are curious, how fortunate youngsters out there are? Or maybe, how unlucky we adults are? I got my first Mac G5 on my nineteenth.

Here we present, 30 youngsters Mac setups!

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?

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.

Stunning Mac Setups

Sometimes, we should spend our time to setup our workplace. Nice setup can be used not only for showing off to your friends but also for increasing our productivity and motivation.

After jump, you will see a lot of nice Mac setups from people around the world. Hope you can gain some inspirations on how to make another stunning Mac setup.

Multi-Touch Mac

MacBook Air got multi-touch trackpad as well as new release of MacBook Pro. What are those kinds of touch?

Apple Official Website

Go to the official website and look inside MacBook Pro section; Scrolling down a bit, you will see small title Multi-Touch meets MacBook Pro. Clicking on the image, you will be brought to brief illustration of all of those available trackpad Gestures.