so let’s get started!

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.

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Leopress

When Leopard’s Finder comes into WordPress..

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Tigerpress

Tiger look alike 2-column layout WordPress theme.

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RealmTheme

Professional-looking Mac inspired WordPress Theme. I love the color of the sidebar (and the Apple logo).

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McMac 1.0

This is really a WordPress theme for Apple power user. Once I enter the site using this theme, I can tell exactly that the main topic of the site is talking about Apple products.

What else will it be talking about when all Apple products, iPhone, iPod Nano, iPod and MacBook Pro shown on the side?

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iTheme 1.1

2-column layout Mac theme with a drag-and-drop to position the sidebar. There is also a downloadable version of iTheme with Dock.

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i3Theme Brothers

Upgraded version of iTheme WordPress theme, and now comes with more advanced 3-column layout.

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Mad for Mac WordPress Theme

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iFoney Theme

2-column theme for WordPress that based on the design of Apple iPhone. Dark colored theme that will makes your site looks like an iPhone.

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iPhone Blog WordPress Theme

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Leopard Admin

Change the look and feel of your WordPress admin with this extension plugin. This plugin changes your WordPress admin section into Leopard style. And the most important thing, don’t expect this plugin to work on IE.

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that’s it I hope you enjoy these themes, and I hope to see it in your blogs. see you next time!

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that’s it guys I hope you enjoyed the keynote from WWDC 09.

please comment and tell me what you think!

So, Let’s go ahead and see which one is your favorite!

1- Quicksilver: When you get used to Quicksilver you will not going to think of any other application launchers, it’s the fastest application launcher. in fact, I can’t use my computer without using Quicksilver, just give it a shot.

2-Think: Think is a light application that lets you fully focus on your work. By forcing you to concentrate only on one active application, Think improves your concentration and hence boosts your productivity.

3- CashBox: Cashbox is a personal finance application for Mac OS X designed to make managing your personal finances a breeze. Cashbox was designed to be a quick and simple to use application for managing personal finances.

4- Sidenote :Sidenote tries to catch the “Stickies” spirit but in the form of a multi-document drawer that will hide in the corner of your screen (left or right). You can use it to take all your daily notes, include images and easily modify text color and font.

5- Growl: Growl is a Mac OS X applications that unintrusively notifies you when something happens.

6- Name Mangler: Name Mangler is a batch file renamer application, which supports several renaming tasks, such as Find & Replace (with or without regular expression), Number Sequential, Set Extension, and many others common batch renaming functions.

7-Appointments: Appointments is an application that can assist in keeping record of customers, contact persons, and important events. Appointments save the information in several separated dictionaries to provide higher convenience in user interface, like sorting and filtering of data.

8- iClockr: iClockr is a simple Mac application that helps you in tracking your time. With iClockr, it’s very easy to calculate total time used to finish a certain project.

9- iTunes Alarm: This iTunes utility turns your Mac into alarm clock. It’ll gently put you to sleep then quietly do the same for your Mac. When its time to wake up, it’ll wake the computer first, and then rouse you from your slumber with music of your choice.

10- Mojo: Mojo is a music sharing application. It lets you browse, select, and download music from other Mojo users that can be found within the same network. The free version of Mojo limits the number of internet buddies, but doesn’t have any usage limitations (I love this app).

11- iBackup: iBackup supports scheduled backups of files, folders, and applications. Furthermore, iBackup uses plugins to backup application settings, reducing the hassle of tweaking the Mac all over again.

12- AppCleaner: AppCleaner is a small application that allows you to uninstall unwanted apps. AppCleaner unveils many related application files that are distributed in the System and deletes those small files during application removal.

12- Folx Downloader: Folx is a free downloader for Mac OS X. Folx can download files of any size via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. With the technology of multi-threading tasks, Folx can give maximum download speed.

Folx is still in its beta version. Hope that it’s still free after the release of its official version.

13- Dropbox: With Dropbox, you can share your files online and across computers. If you’re working with several people, Dropbox can save your time in distributing your documents as well as in backing up important files.

The free version of Dropbox can support up to 2GB of data storage, which is already quite big for normal usage.

14- Snippely: Snippely is a basic text and code organizational Adobe AIR Application. Snippely has a nice user interface, suitable for storing bits of code, quick notes and memos, thus avoiding cluttering your hard drives with scattered “snippets”.

so, that’s it! I hope you enjoy these applications, feel free to comment and tell us what’s your favorites Apps … see in the next post!

There are a lot of things out there that can be done to your Mac OS X. These 101 -I think- are just a small collection of those cool things. Since every single trick are too small to be compiled as single article, I decided to combine them all in a single post. Hope you can enjoy it.

Slowly Increase/Decrease Volume

Pressing modifier keys Option-Shift while increasing/decreasing (F4/F5 for MacBook) will slowly increase/decrease the volume bar by a quarter.

Searching by Lyrics

Spotlight in Leopard now supports searching music by its lyric.

Attach Files into Mail

Simple drag-and-drop to the Mail.app icon helps you done the attaching in New Message.

Working without Mouse or Trackpad

Using only keyboard shortcuts with modifier key Control and keys F1 to F3, you can do Turn on Full Keyboard Access, Jump to Menubar and Go to Dock respectively.

Assign a Shortcut to Multiple Actions

Mac allows you to assign a shortcut to multiple actions, e.g. you can assign Option-Space to invoke Quicksilver and LaunchBar (even though Quicksilver will be prioritized). This will be useful when you want to do toggling, such as turning on and off Private Browsing in Safari which have been assigned as different actions.

Movie Slow Motion

While in Quicktime, you can use your trackpad finger-scrolling or mouse scrolling to move forward/backward frame by frame or even stopping the movie.

Quick Hide/Unhide Dock

Using keystrokes Command-Option will help you quickly do the Dock hiding/unhiding.

Quote Level in Mail

Keystrokes Command-[ '] and Command-Option-[ '] can be used to raise/lower Mail quote level easily.

Open Minimized Windows

When you have one of your Applications minimized, you can maximize it by doing:

1. Command-Tab until you reach the minimized Application
2. Press Option
3. Release Command

Using Pathbar

Besides showing your current position, pathbar can also be used to help you drag-and-drop some files to one of the folders shown in pathbar hierarchy.

Cropping Image in Preview

Draw the region you want to crop followed by pressing keystrokes Command-K will do the job.

“Hello” from Mac

Open your Terminal and use command line:

say Hello

Your Mac will say “Hello” to you. Hello can be replaced with other words, eg. say Chunky Bacon.

Reveal Same Contact Group

Selecting one or more contacts in your Address Book and pressing Option help you reveal all contacts which are in the same group.

Quick Finding Folder when Saving

When you saw dialog box asking where the file should be saved, you can use keystrokesCommand-Shift-G to open another Go To dialog box to help you easier jumping to targetted folder (even hidden folder can be accessed).

Scrolling with Mouse

If you have mouse that can only scroll vertically, you can press Shift and scrolling to get your horizontal scrolling ability. However in Photoshop, this cannot work. Instead, you need to press Command.

Add Startup Items

Select one of your applications sitting on the dock to be added to startup items, right click on it and choose Open at login. That particular application will be opened starting from next startup.

New Tab in Safari

Double-clicking on empty area in Safari tab bar will return you new tab bar just like in Firefox.

Zooming In/Out Display

Press Control and scroll up/down with your mouse will get your display zoomed in/out.

Ripping Apart Terminal Tabs

As in Safari, you can split Terminal tabs by dragging it vertically out of tab bar.

Hide All Others Windows

Keystrokes Command-Option-H will help you hide all others windows except the window you’re currently working at.

Transparent Hidden Apps on Dock

defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES
killall Dock

When executed, command lines above will make your hidden Applications showed transparently on the Dock.

Drag Items to Finder Toolbar

Yes, you can do it by drag-hold-release item on the toolbar of Finder. To drag them out again, use modifier key Command before dragging the item.

Delete Songs from iTunes Library

You need to use Option-Delete to delete selected songs completely from your iTunes library.

Force Open in Tab

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

With above command line, you can force Safari to open all sites (even the sites that don’t want to be tabbed) in new tab.

Quick Empty Trash

If you don’t want to see any confirmation dialog box when you need to empty your trash, you can use keystrokes Command-Option-Shift-Delete.

Import Icon to Preview

1. Choose and highlight an icon
2. Hit Command-C to copy that icon into clipboard
3. Open Preview
4. Press Command-N
5. You should be able to see your icon

Remove Zoom Anti-Aliasing

When you zoomed in your display, pressing Command-Option-Backslash will reduce the blur by turning off anti-aliasing.

Move Bookmark Item into Bookmarks Folder

You need to drag that bookmark item out of bookmark bar first before you can drag it into bookmark folder. Press Command to enable the dragging.

Eliza’s Psychiatrist Office

1. Open Terminal
2. Type emacs
3. Press Shift-Escape
4. Write xdoctor
5. Be nice and answer all of her questions
6. It’s for free

Quick Subscribe RSS to Mail

If you click on RSS button next to your Safari address bar, at the bottom right corner you will see Actions: Subscribe in Mail. That particular feed will be added to your Mail RSS.

Copy Font Style in TextEdit

Unlike normal copy-paste with Command-C and Command-V, if you want to copy-paste the style of the font, you need to use Command-Option-C and Command-Option-V.

Shortcuts List

In most of Applications, if you use Leopard’s help Command-Shift-Slash and search termshortcuts, you will be able to see all available shortcuts of that Application.

Organizing PDFs with Preview

1. Open the file with Preview
2. Show Sidebar (Command-Shift-D)
3. Drag-and-drop page or delete with Command-Delete

Use Small Buttons in Firefox 3

1. Open Firefox
2. Go to View ? Toolbars ? Customize..
3. Check Use Small Icons

Schedule Shutdown

To schedule shutdown, you can go to Energy Saver Preference Pane and press Schedule..button.

Make Alias

Use keystrokes Command-L to quickly make alias of selected items.

Open Two or More Similar Application at the Same Time

open -n /Applications/Safari.app

You will have two Safaris running at the same time. You can also do that for other applications by replacing the path with Application’s path. Unfortunately, Firefox doesn’t allow it.

Zero Brightness

For MacBooks, the display brightness can be easily set to zero with keystrokes Control-Shift-Eject.

Shortcuts for Adium Status

Open you Adium and go under Status menu. You will see shortcuts have been assigned to some display status.

Create Print Button in Safari

Insert javascript:window.print(); and drag that particular url into your bookmark bar. Whenever you want to print particular html file, click on that button and you will be brought to printing pane.

Open Spotlight Searching Result in Finder

Instead of pressing Return, pressing Command-Return on Spotlight search result will bring you to Finder where that item is enclosed in.

Drag Items to Safari

Directly from Finder, you can drag-and-drop file to Safari without using Choose File Dialog Box.

Auto-Change Background Images

Inside Desktop & Screen Saver Preferences Pane under Desktop section, you can tickChange Picture checkbox to let your Desktop background changed every x minutes (you choose).

Quote Message with Mail

If you want to quote particular part of message, highlight that part and click on reply. That part will be automatically quoted in your reply message.

Split Adium Contact List

While holding Command, you can drag out your Adium Contact List header.

Screensaver as Desktop Background

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &

Command line above will make your screensaver as Desktop background. Take note the process ID. If you want to stop the screensaver, you can use:

kill PID 478

Where 478 is the ID number you took note before.

Enable Safari Inspector

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true

Use above command line to enable Safari Web Inspector, it’s like Firebug in Firefox.

Change Main Language

You can change your Mac main language with these steps:

1. Go to System Preferences
2. Inside International Pane
3. Click on Language
4. Choose your language

Access Anywhere in Safari with Tabs

If you want to be able to tab through all checkboxes and radio buttons, pressing Control-F7will do you the favor. This keystrokes toggles between textboxes-lists control and all controls inside Keyboard Shortcuts Preferences Pane.

Processing Microsoft Word Files

.doc or .docx files can be opened and edited with TextEdit. After you’ve finished editing the file, save it again as Word Format and the file can be opened again with Microsoft Word.

Wrap around Finder

When you’ve reach the end of the files list of your Finder, pressing another ArrowDownwon’t do anything for you. If you want to wrap around and start over again from the top of the list, pressing Tab will do that for you.

Hide Hard Disk from Desktop

If you want your Desktop to be very clean, you can also hide the Hard Disk. To hide Hard Disk:

1. Open Finder
2. Go to Preferences.. (Command-Comma)
3. Choose General section
4. Untick All Items

Move Finder Highlight Alphabetically

Pressing Option-Tab when you’re inside Finder will help you jump through files alphabetically.

Hiding Finder Sidebar Items

Go to Finder Preferences under Sidebar and untick all unnecessary items by unticking the checkboxes.

Hiding Other Applications via Dock

Holding Command-Option while opening an Application will turn all other applications hidden, left alone that Application opened.

Add Sidebar Items

You can highlight items and press Command-T to put those items on the Sidebar. To remove them, simple right-clicking and choosing remove would do.

Auto-Adjust Finder Sidebar Width

Keystrokes Command-Option-Control-T can help you auto-adjust your Finder sidebar width.

Change New Finder Behavior

Go to your Finder Preferences under General section. There you will see New Finder windows open, change the folder to Applications. Next time you open new Finder window, the folder displayed will be your Applications folder.

Differentiating Single and Multiple Pages PDF Icons

Multiple pages PDF icons will have black binder at the left side of the page, while single page PDF files don’t have.

Help Bar

In help bar, pressing Option-Return will do new searching instead of Return which shows the result.

Assign New Alias Link

Open your alias file Get Info Pane and click on Select New Original button to assign new link to your alias file.

Jump Category of Spotlight Result

If you press Command followed by Up/Down Arrow, you can jump between categories of all your Spotlight search result.

Search Spotlight by Date Modified

If you want to search for files modified before 2nd January 2008, you can use search termmodified:<=1/2/08. The date can be changed accordingly.

Spotlight Finder Search

Keystrokes Command-Shift-F help you to quickly jump to do searching by name.

Slow Motion Mode

By pressing Shift while executing some commands, will give you slow motion mode of the execution. As far as I know, those commands are:

• Spaces
• Exposé
• Dashboard
• Closing Widgets
• Minimize
• Opening Stack and Fan

Force Dock Magnification

Even though Dock magnification is turned off, you can force the magnification by pressingControl-Shift. The good side here is, the magnification is still set to be turned off.

Restarting Dock Settings

If you accidentally (or deliberately) put up hundreds of items into your Dock, it will waste your time to drop them out one by one. The fastest way to restore your original Dock is to delete your com.apple.dock.plist and relogin to your account.

Attach Item to Mail with Dock

If you press Command-Option while dragging item on Dock to your new mail pane, that particular will be attached to the mail.

27 Menulets

All of these default menubar items are located inside Mac HD ? System ? Library ? CoreServices ? Menu Extras.

Combine Exposé and Space

While in Space mode, you still can Exposé selected Space.

Moving All Windows to Other Space

When pressing Shift, dragging a window will affect every single window of the same Application.

Collecting All Opened Windows in One Space

While Space mode is turned on, pressing C will help you collect all opened windows in a single Space.

Read-Only Folder

If you see a crossed-out pencil icon at the bottom-left corner of your Finder, it means that particular folder is set to be Read-Only.

Combining Selections

In most of Applications, especially Cocoa Applications, you can use Command to combine several separated blocks of selection. This also can be done while selecting blocks of text.

Announce Time

You could set your Mac to announce the time for you every period of time. It can be done inside Date & Time Preferences Pane.. with checkbox labelled Announce the time.

Get Current Date and Time

date

Above command can be used inside Terminal to get current date and time set inside your Mac.

date -jnu

Above command returns current date and time also, but it’s according to UTC time.

Quick Jump to Settings Pane

Pressing Option along with one of brightness keys will bring you to Display Preferences Panewhile pressing it along with one of volume adjustment keys will take you to Sound Preferences Pane.

Black Frame

Maybe you haven’t noticed it, there is 1-2 milimeters black frame around your display. There is nothing to do about it, it’s normal.

Mute Volume Adjustment

Holding Shift while increasing/decreasing volume will shut the tapping sound.

Quick Accessing Applications Folder

When you select your Finder, pressing Command-Shift-A will do the trick.

Auto Replace Equation

If you highlight an equation, e.g. 5*15+20.5, and then press Command-Shift-8, your Mac will automatically replace it the correct answer, i.e. 95.5 in that particular example. Note: Script Editor will be launched.

Rotate Through Calculator Mode

Clicking Calculator’s Zoom button won’t enlarge the view pane. Instead, it will rotate your Calculator’s mode: Basic, Scientific and Programmer.

Quick Word Definition

Hovering a word and pressing keystrokes Command-Control-D will have a definition window popped up. Holding Command-Control after, and hovering over another word will display the definition of that word.

Adjust Outline Thickness for Extract Shape

When you’re using Extract Shape feature in Preview, after drawing several enclosing areas, pressing +/- will increase/decrease the thickness of the pink outline.

Curly Quote in TextEdit

Go to Edit ? Substitutions and tick Smart Quotes. You will get your curly quotes in your TextEdit document.

TextEdit Searching

Maybe you haven’t noticed this, pressing Option while opening Dialog Box: Find will change the button to In Selection. So the results will only be limited to the selection.

Taking Snapshot with Grab

Unlike usual screen capture, the pointer can be shown when you capture your screen with Grab. Pointer type can be chosen inside Grab Preferences.

Your Mac Serial Number

Go to Apple ? About This Mac and click on the version number (the one below big Mac OS X title) twice. You will see your Mac serial number.

Built-In Image Effects

If you happen to go inside Developer ? Applications ? Graphic Tools, you will see an Application called Core Image Fun House which inside got a lot of ready-to-use image effects.

If Administrator Forgets Password

In this case, Mac OS X DVD Installer will be needed. Restart your Mac while pressing C on boot up. After that, choose Installer ? Reset Password. Follow all the steps and hopefully you can get new password.

Huge Icons

defaults write com.apple.finder DesktopViewOptions -dict IconSize -integer 256
killall Finder

Command lines above will make your Desktop icons very big (256×256). You can use command lines below to reset it to medium size (64×64).

defaults write com.apple.finder DesktopViewOptions -dict IconSize -integer 64
killall Finder

Rename Trash

There is a good news: you can edit the display name of your Trash folder. Follow these steps:

1. Go inside folder: System ? Library ? CoreServices
2. Right-click on Dock and Choose Show Package Contents
3. Open Contents ? Resources ? English.lproj ? InfoPlist.strings
4. Change the value of variable named TrashName

Here is the bad news, it’s a Read-Only file.

Change Dock’s Menu List

In the same folder as before, you will see another file named DockMenus.strings. All the naming of Dock menus are inside this file. If you want to change your Dock’s menu naming, changing the right value of the variables will do the trick.

Translucent Menu Bar

Go to your Desktop & Screen Saver Preferences Pane under Desktop section, tick checkbox labelled Translucent Menu Bar to get your menu bar translucent.

Mail Recipients

Mail can help you do the auto-completion when you want to send message out. In case you don’t want the auto-completion to be done for certain address, you can go under Mail: Window ? Previous Recipients and remove contacts from the list.

Quick Forward in Mail

Hold Option while double-clicking the message will do you the trick.

Blind Carbon Copy

In your default Mail settings, you won’t see this address field, but it’s exist. Turn it on by using keystrokes Command-Option-B or by enabling View ? Bcc Address Field.

Prioritize Mail

Click on the button left to your Subject Field and enable Priority Field. Now, you can send your Mail with three priority: Low, Normal and High Priority.

Random Signatures

You can have more than one signature for your Mail. And the fun thing is, you can set your Mail to select one of your signatures collection randomly. You can do so:

1. Go to Mail: Mail ? Preferences… ? Signatures
2. Find Option Box labelled Choose Signature
3. Choose At Random

Make your Mac Delivers Speech

When you’re too lazy to read document by yourself, select some portions of the text, chooseEdit ? Speech ? Start Speaking and your Mac will read the text for you.

Quick Shut Down

The last trick, quick shut down which is used almost every day: Command-Control-Option-Eject.

How many of them you’ve known? How many of them you haven’t noticed before?

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Ignis Fatui

Ignis Fatui is a screensaver that displays a simple particle system of drifting lights. By running this screensaver, you can create a romantic, comforting ambience around your Mac.

Strands

Strands is a screensaver that shows a weave of glowing, flexing lines. Many selection of colors are available for this screensaver.

Phantom Butterflies

Phantom Butterflies is a screensaver that shows a flock of glowing, ephemeral butterflies.

Helios

Helios is a particle attraction/repulsion screensaver where blobs emit and receive multi-colored particles.

Skyrocket

It’s a firework screensaver!

Sprite Swarm

Screensaver that produces sprites of light. However, waiting for sprites of light to replicate sure takes a long time.

Matrix Saver

MatrixSaver is a screensaver for Mac OS X that replicates the screen effects of the motion picture The Matrix.

Leopard Screensavers

Vortex, aurora, and time machine background are applied as the basic concept of these screensavers.

X-Galaxy

Using the same concept as Leopard vortex wallpaper, the animation of this screensaver achieved a truly fantastic and hypnotic view with animated, full 3D version of moving star objects.

Time Machine

Combining the awesomeness of time machine background animation, time machine screensaver has created a mind-blowing screensaver. This screensaver can also be used to visualize your RSS Feed.

Clock Screensavers

Sometimes, we really need to pay close attention to our time…

PolarClock

Screensaver that shows current date and time with rings of colors. The animated change in color and updating of clock are simply stunning.

Fractal Clock

Using fractals to build hands of clock and animate it according to the change in time makes this screensaver an attention getter, especially for those in love with abstract art.

DropClock

DropClock is an aesthetically intriguing motion clock screensaver. Every minute of real time is numerically expressed with heavy helvetica number dropping into water in super slow-motion.

Word Clock

Word Clock is a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X and Windows. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence. Word Clock displays time by highlighting appropriate words as each second passes. In the snapshot above, we are using Rotary Word Clock.

Analogy

Analogy is a typographic clock which fuses the immediacy of digital with the visual-spatial quality of analogue into a hybrid format. It presents an everyday object with a fresh twist.

Due3 Clock

Screensaver that shows Date&Time and visualizes an analog clock.

Digg Screensavers

As the most popular voting sites, it seems that Digg doesn’t want to lose to others in building their own unique screensavers.

Digg Swarm

Digg Arc

Digg Stack

Digg BigSpy

Colorful Screensavers

Screensavers that are enhance by animation of multi-colored lines and shapes.

Fireflies

This screensaver displays an animated blob of liquid glass that flows and deforms according to various patterns.

Flux

This screensaver creates tons of moving light particles that occupy customizable number of flux fields. Many settings are available for you to play around with.

Watching these virtual fireflies dancing around your screen and leaving colorful trails will surely stupefy your mind.

Flocks

A screensaver that depicts a groups of flocks flying together by following defined leaders. With proper settings, the movement of all particles can produce a stunning scene.

Solar Winds

Another amazing screensaver that draws a movement of light particles with customizable number of emitters, winds, and particles.

Hyperspace

Hyperspace is a screensaver that sends its users on a virtual trip through a wormhole, just like the ones in some sci-fi TV shows and movies. Meanwhile, nebulas and stars fly by.

Cyclone

This screensaver simulates the shape of cyclone that can sweep through every corner of your screen display.

Euphoria

With layers of plasma-like objects, this screensaver keeps your eyes entertained. Good eye-candy for those who love colorful objects.

Filigree

Filigree is a screensaver that shows a network of lines as they weave elaborate and chaotic patterns through space.

Liquid Screensaver

Metamercury

Ridiculously hypnotic, this screensaver lets you watch blobs of liquid material bouncing around, melding, separating, and bouncing some more. This screensaver is fully adjustable for a range of processor and 3D card speeds.

LotsaGlass

Plasma Tunnel

A screensaver that brings you to travel through an endless dimension of plasma tunnel.

Functional Screensaver

Besides being the eye-candy for you, these screensavers have other functionality, such as running movie, providing status notification, etc.

MovingPhotos3D

This screensaver arranges your photos to form 3D constructions, such as a city block with buildings. It works better on machines with good graphics, such as the iMac or MacBook Pro.

Status Screensaver

Status screensaver allows you to have quick notification of changes to your applications while your Mac runs in screensaver mode. You can choose any other screensaver you would like to run simultaneously (as the background) with the status bar at the bottom of the screen.

SaveHollywood

This screensaver allows you to display QuickTime Movies as a screensaver. You can also either select a file or a directory to watch. If you select a file, the movie will loop. If you select a directory, files within this directory will be played sequentially.

Econ

The screensaver that loads your icon and uses it as the moving objects.

ShuffleSaver

Screensaver that uses Flickr API to load millions of photos or pictures from Flickr and display them in a slideshow mode with certain transition.

DashSaver

A screensaver that shows user’s Dashboard upon activation.

Special Effect Screensavers

Fenêtres Volantes

After some idle time to enter the state of screensaver, all opened windows will fly off from their position on the screen and flutter in the void. Upon exiting from screensaver mode, the windows will immediately fly back and stuck to their original position.

LotsaWater

This screensaver renders a fairly realistic water effect over your desktop, showing it distorted through the wavy surface of the water as raindrops fall on the surface.

Desktop Tiles

Desktop Tiles is a simple screensaver that takes a screenshot of the entire screen and turns into a puzzle, randomly moving the tiles.

Scattered Flurries

Scattered Flurries is a screensaver that shows snow falling gently in the breeze. Customizations up to certain level are provided, such as background image, wind speed, and amount of snow.

Snowfall

Screensaver that adds snowflakes to static background image.

Panoramic Screensaver

It’s the real world scene…

Sunset 23

Watch the wind blowing; watch dogs, horses and even a helicopter passing the iconic white letters as the blue sky fades to blush before dissolving into a rich black velvet nocturne; backdropping the flickering jewels of the city lights of Los Angeles.

With increasing number of screen savers being coded and produced, it’s time consuming for you to choose the best that fits your need. Hopefully, I’ve filtered down to Ten Mac screen savers that will make you droll (and they’re all free).

Enjoy!

MovingPhotos 3D Screen Saver

[Download Here]

An absolutely beautiful screen saver. This screen saver gives you the freedom on choosing your pictures folder and then works on it to create animation of photos flying around, constructing a virtual building. This is a must have screen saver.

Screen Savers for Internet

Time Machine Screen Saver

[Download Here]

This Time Machine screen saver combines the Time Machine space time warp and your trustworthy RSS reader, making it so much of convenience (and awesomeness) for reading your RSS while also running your screen saver.

Flickr Shuffle Screen Saver

[Download Here]

This screen saver can load your favorite photos from Flickr, shuffle them, add customizable transition effects and display them as your screen saver. It’s worth a try. Really.

The Digg Labs

[Download Here]

The Arc of Digg as your Mac screen saver. Everyone should have known about this already.

Colorful Screen Savers

Fireflies

[Download Here]

The most colorful Mac screen saver that I’ve ever seen for now. More colorful than Flurry screen saver.

Solar Winds

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Flurry-like Mac OS X screen saver.

Flux

[Download Here]

Mac OS X Screen Saver that uses the movement of spheres to create a stunning, colorful composition.

Plasma Tunnel

[Download Here]

By watching this screen saver, you will have a feeling of being taken into the depth of the water tunnel. You can customize the color of the tunnel’s wall also.

Space Screen Saver

Screensaver X-Galaxy

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Screen saver built with a Leopard’s nebula concept.

Miscellaneous Screen Saver

Jack O’Lantern

[Download Here]

In this screen saver, you can turn gloomy pumpkin lantern into your mac screen saver. Interestingly here you can carve your PNG transparent and make your lantern to be displayed on your screen saver.

You can also find Apple logo as one of the default carving templates provided.

To my surprise, some developers have amazed me with their applications that came out different than others, such as application to set different Docks on different Spaces, to set different wallpaper on different Spaces, to bring you to cleaning room, and many other creative yet useful functionality.

There are many of them, but here I will mention some that I am currently using.

DockSpaces, Dock Extensions

Using Dock Spaces, you can create up to 10 distinct Docks which are ready to be triggered and changed. If you’re currently not used to using one of Mac application launchers, you would love this Dock expansion application.

For further customization, you would be able to attach every distinct Dock into different Spaces.

Deeper, Reveal Hidden Preferences

Recalling the days of tweaking, Mac geeks come out with killer Terminal tweaks, some are very useful, some are plain amazing. However, many are afraid of corrupting their system files during tweaking and choose not to tweak their Macs.

But with Deeper, you can personalize your Mac with simple GUI and get the most out of your Mac.

Camouflage, Desktop Icons Hiding

Most Mac users are troubled by endless clutters on their Desktop, like me, the more I tried to clean up my Desktop, the messier my Desktop became.

With Camouflage, we can easily hide/show our Desktop icons. Basically, it moves all of your icons under the wallpaper.

Hyperspaces, Different Wallpapers on Different Spaces

With Hyperspace, you can customize every bit of your Spaces with different desktop pictures, naming on each space or even hotkeys. And it’s fairly easy to do that.

Hyperspace is a an application with $12.95 price tag but without paying any single pennies, you have the chance to use trial version, which enables you to play around with customization up to 2 Spaces.

Omnidea Rulers, Ruler for Everyone

Having problem with measuring certain part of the screen, often for me to use built-inMac OS X snapshot ruler which is quite troublesome (and a single careless will create accidental snap).

But now, to easily take your Desktop’s coordinate, Rulers comes in handy. And Rulers even empowered with color picker.

MacLoc, Logout without Closing Applications

With a very different behavior than usual Mac log out, MacLoc won’t close all of your applications while logging you out from the system. With this, you will be able to protect your valuable data whenever you want to walk out.

Keyboard Cleaner, Clean Your MacBook with No Hesitation

Whenever it’s time to clean our laptop, it’s require that we shut down our Mac to avoid unwanted keystrokes being triggered. Come to think of this, it’s such a hassle to do this all the time.

Keyboard Cleaner should help you clean out all the troubles: it will lock you out the screen, enabling you to clean out your MacBook without worrying on accidentally triggering undesired keystrokes; Only Command-Q is accepted, i.e. to bring you out of the cleaning state.

OmniDazzle, Mouse Trail Plugins

Having mouse track without trails, I feel a bit losing to those Windows users. In the case of using large display, mouse trail will also be a great help to find your mouse.

Folks at OmniGroup made an impressive plugin for your mouse which enables your mouse to have trails, such as Pixie Dust, Footprints and Flashlight. But be careful, excessive use of this will eat up your productivity.

Shuffling Songs

Though I know that everyone should have known about this feature, but it’s always good to start from the basic (in case, some of you don’t know).

By clicking on the second button of iTunes lower-left corner (with twisted arrows icon), we will be able to turn on/off Shuffling Mode for iTunes. But, it’s also recommended to turn on Repeat Mode by clicking on icon next to it (3rd button) so that iTunes will keep shuffling even after it has finished playing the last song.

However, shuffling of movies isn’t available for iTunes, but there is a workaround for this.

Shuffling Movies

To make iTunes shuffle our movies files, we need to move those files from iTunes Movies Library to iTunes Music Library; simply drag-n-dropping the file to another library won’t work.

Until now, I’ve found only one way to move song to music library:

1. Open iTunes and control-click on movie that you intend to move
2. Go inside its Get Info pane
3. Switch to Options section
4. Select Music Video as its Media Kind
5. Item will be automatically moved to Music Library

Don’t close your Get Info Pane first, since we’ve already inside, let me continue with other trick.

Setting Start and Stop Time

Under Get Info ? Options, we can see two boxes labelled Start Time and Stop Time. With these two boxes, we can set the starting and ending point of our song. Using this simple trick, we can also manipulate our play count.

More often than not, we want to shuffle songs of certain genre/artist/album instead of shuffling all of our songs, that’s when songs categorization comes into play to make smaller playlist.

Categorizing Songs

Songs categorization, as the name suggests, will assist us in grouping our songs to the same genre, artist or album. It’s in the form of browser, it can be activated by pressing keystrokes command-b, and by clicking on one of the items we can have a playlist narrow down to that selected category.

Often, we will prefer to keep iTunes Mini Player showing on our Mac rather than the big iTunes browser window hanging around. Pressing on the green button (Zoom Button), we will be able to transform iTunes browser into mini player.

Regarding to this mini player, there are some useful information I want to share here.

Floating Mini Player

Floating, also means keeping on top of other windows, can be enabled inside iTunes Preferences Pane. In details, these are the steps for activating floating mini player:

1. Open iTunes
2. Follow this path: Menu Bar ? iTunes ? Preferences…
3. Go under Advanced tabs
4. Tick 4th checkbox from bottom that says, ‘Keep MiniPlayer on top of all other windows’

Controlling Mini Player

I found these keyboard shortcuts come in handy when we’re navigating with iTunes Mini Player:

1. spacebar – Play/Pause
2. ? | ? – Increase/Decrease Volume
3. ? | ? – Change to Next/Previous Song
4. cmd-opt-? – Mute Sound
5. cmd-opt-? | cmd-opt-? – Forward/Backward Song

Problem arises when playing Music Videos with Mini Player where a new window will suddenly pop up or even the movie will go to full screen mode. To encounter this, we should in advance set Music Videos’ Playback to be in Artwork Viewer (to be set insideiTunes ? Preferences ? Playback).

Other interesting stuffs on iTunes:

Setting Half-Star Rating

We only need to execute this Terminal command line and all set:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes allow-half-stars -bool TRUE

iTunes Visualizers

Besides iTunes Default Visualizer, there are still many other visualizers we can install to our iTunes, such as Magnetosphere (the previous version of iTunes Default Visualizer), Cubism, and many others.

iTunes Widgets

I’ve browsed some Yahoo! Widgets for iTunes and found these interested:

1. iTunes MiniRate
2. iTunes Remote
3. iTunes Sky
4. Mickm iTunes Mini Player

If you have stumbled on other interesting iTunes widgets, please let me know.

iTunes in Safe Mode

In case of your iTunes failing after installing additional add-ons, visualizers or plugins, you can press command-option upon opening your iTunes. These key combination will bring your iTunes to Safe Mode, i.e. opening without extra stuffs.

Sharing Music Over Local Network

Last but not least, it’s always good to be able to share music to friends that are connected to our local network. Here are how to do it.

1. Open iTunes and go to its Preferences
2. Move to Sharing section
3. Tick Share my library on local network, select your playlist, and give password protection if necessary

It’s quite straightforward, isn’t it?

As we have seen, many cool features are hidden inside iTunes yet in this article not all of them are discovered. If you have, by any chance, discovered some other stunning features, please share with me and other readers.

Screenshot of Glossy Black Dock

Dock Changer Applications

Used to be a hit amongst Mac users, Dock Changer is the famous name for an application that can provide us simple and convenient interface to change our Dock skin.

One from this kind I use is LeopardDocks. Its ease of use makes the world of Dock customization much more wonderful.

Dock Skin

A large collection of Dock skins are available to be downloaded from LeopardDocks.com, but amongst many I like Glossy Black Dock the most, which is uploaded by Daniel Kestler.

Glossy Black Dock: Download Link.

The Customization Process

Let’s begin the tweaking process.

1. Download LeopardDocks and Glossy Dock Skin with the link provided above
2. Install and launch LeopardDocks
3. Browse to extracted folder of GlossyBlack.zip
4. Change your Dock and confirm with admin password
5. Your Dock skin will be immediately changed

It’s that easy.