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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.

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.

Applications

100+ Free Applications for Mac OS X

If you are always be the one looking for new friendly, sleek Mac applications to try out, check this out.

QuickSilver Tips

QuickSilver is one of the top tools we like to use here in usingMac. It is our best productivity booster in our app repertoire. Guess, we are always up to date

There are too many Mac applications readily available which, either directly or indirectly, confuse most Mac users, making them hard to find the best application. On the other side, most application developers also feel really itch-scratching to think of fresh and unique application.

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. [Dock Spaces via Smoking Apples]

Most Mac users will like to use Preview as their image viewer. Most users will also use iPhoto. But few of us, feeling not satisfied with these built-in applications, seeks for better image viewers.

As a matter of fact, there are many Mac image viewers built by developers, such as Xee, CocoViewX and Sequential, just to name a few. After having fun with some of them, I've come up with this list of Mac image viewers to share with you.

Let's see what are these Mac image viewers.

Xee 2.0

Homepage | Download

Xee, an image viewer for easier image management, is designed to give you extra speed and convenience in viewing images. Not just that, you also have sleek and comfortable interface for you to play with your images. Empowered with auto-detect, by just opening an image, Xee can display the slideshow of collection of images within the same folder.

CocoViewX

Homepage | Download

Image Viewer for Mac OS X that has the capabilities of viewing and manipulating mostly us

Though there are large selection of Mac Application Launchers, many still don't intend to switch from the blazing Spotlight.

To satisfy the demand of many Spotlight fans, I will discuss several Spotlight tweaks that I usually play around with. I hope you can use these tweaks wisely.

Several UsingMac resources that will be helpful for you to improve your Spotlight experience:

But before we started the tweaks…

Disclaimer

We won't take any responsibilities for damages or data loss due to practicing the content of this article. Please kindly backup your files involved in the tweaking before you proceed.

Now let's begin the tweaking process!

Tweaking Spotlight Label

Most of the time, Windows users are reluctant to switch to a Mac. One amongst many reasons is that they found it hard to search for free softwares/applications for the Mac. Some of them have already switched to a Mac, but they're still running Windows OS on a Mac.

It's such an irony that actually there are mountains of free Mac applications available for us. After days of working on this, I've come out with list of free and useful Mac applications.

I've categorized and arranged the order of applications so that it will be extremely easy for you to find applications you need for your Mac.

Continue reading and you will see fabulous list of 100+ Free Mac OS X Applications!

Productivity Tool

1

Think
Simple Utility to Help Concentrate On Your Current Activity 2

SketchBox
Sticky Notes Manager for Your Mac Desktop 3

Slife
Complete Interface for You to Completely Analyze your Activities 4

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