Yes, the Apple style is cool. As a follow up to our previous post on Apple office furniture, we show you the best Apple inspired office and desk accessories that will not only help enhance your productivity, will also maintain the Apple look and feel. Adding these accessories to your Apple inspired desk will help you create your very own minimal, stylish and sleek Apple home office.

mStand

If you work on laptop for long hours you will eventually strain your eyes, neck, back, and arms. mStand is a stylish stand that the laptops screen to meet eye level for better posture and view.

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Bookarc

BookArc helps you free up valuable real estate on your desk, giving you a cleaner, less cluttered, Zen-like workspace. With a footprint of 10-by-4 inches, BookArc takes up a fraction of the space your MacBook wastes just lying around. And while it takes your MacBook to new heights, BookArc rests on soft, silicone footpads that keep it from leaving any unwanted surface marks or scratches on your desk.

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Elevator – Desktop Stand

Elevator's sturdy brushed aluminum and minimal design would blend seemllessly with any stylishly office. It holds your portable computer safely and securely at just the right height to match external monitors – and to save your aching neck.

Elevator – Desktop Stand Homepage

Backpack

BackPack is the perfect place to park portable hard drives, card readers or other USB peripheral you want to hide, but need easy access to every now and then. Set your USB hub on the shelf and tie your cables to it for a super tidy workspace. BackPack is also a handy home to stash your iPhone or iPod while charging and syncing.

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Slimkey v.2

The Slimkey v.2 is perfect in every way: slim, nice and flat and beautifully designed. It has a side access USB2.0 powered hub and the perfect height of the stand provides a "home" for your keyboard, nothing will ever seem to be out of place on your desk any more.

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DESKSET by deskology

The DESKSET is an essential set of aluminum desk accessories designed to compliment your Mac computer right down to the finish. These carefully crafted accessories will add a level of substance to your desk space that very few desk accessories can.

DESKSET by deskology Homepage

Surfacepad

SurfacePad is designed to shield your MacBook keyboard deck from dust, dirt, and oils from your skin and friction from your wrists. It preserves the showroom aluminum luster around your keyboard and trackpad, so when it’s time to upgrade to a new MacBook, your old one will still look like new underneath.

Surfacepad Homepage

Floater

Floater is designed to compactly place your notebook upright. Seeming almost afloat, this innovative, sleek and stylish design turns your MacBook as well as your entire desktop into an all-new computing system.
As long as the power is on, your MacBook can be used even when closed. Taking advantage of this technology, the Floater conveniently allows you to use your notebook as the main computer system while you productively work on a larger LCD screen.

Floater Homepage

Moshi iLynx

iLynx offers unprecedented speed to Mac and iMac users through an easy to use and aesthetically pleasing FireWire/USB combo hub that doubles their USB and FireWire ports without any external power supply.
iLynx is a FireWire/USB combo hub that can support simultaneous operation of high power peripheral devices such as external hard disc or DVD drives without the need for a power adapter. When plugged in, iLynx provides 4 downstream USB 2.0 ports (backward compatible with USB 1.1) and 2 FireWire 400 ports.

Moshi iLynx Homepage

Colony

Colony is a storage device that neatly organizes entangled cables, adapters, wires and just about anything else hanging off your desk. Simply plug all your adapters into one AC power strip and pass the main plug through the single opening at the bottom of the vase for a tidy area.

Colony Homepage

Zefyr

A subtle yet effective cooling solution, Zefyr is designed to maintain your MacBook’s system stability even under peak loading conditions.
When Zefyr is put in place, you also gain the benefit of improved ergonomics through a slight tilt to the MacBook. Overall, Zefyr is an unobtrusive thermal management solution that offers you a more comfortable computing experience.

ZefyrHomepage

Cable Drop

CableDrop gently grasps your power and peripheral cords so they do not fall off your desk every time you unplug your laptop.
Cabledrop can really blend in with your decor, use them hidden under ledges with the muted colors to match your furniture or bring them to light by using the bright ones. Beyond just preventing cables from falling off a desk, they make great cable clips on furniture legs or walls to control unruly cords.

Cable Drop Homepage

Kite

Kite is an A4 size, paper and pencil tray with a concept of “possibility” in mind. A blank sheet of paper and a simple writing utensil has the potential to stir spectacular ideas not yet present on a sheet of paper. Thus, the possibilities are endless. With Kite’s slightly unique curve, the paper appears as if it is afloat. With its amazing design, Kite can help arouse new possibilities.

Kite Homepage

Alto Express

The Logitech Alto Express Notebook Stand raises your notebook display for increased viewing comfort. You’re more relaxed—and more productive, and it’s an attractive alternative to expensive monitors and docking stations.

Alto Express Homepage

Neat Desk for Mac

NeatDesk for Mac is the high-speed scanner and software combination that will help you clean off your desk and organize all your important information on the Mac. The scanner provides a central “inbox” for all the paper that normally clutters your workspace. Its unique paper input tray allows you to insert up to 10 receipts, 10 business cards and 10 full-size documents, and scan them all in a single batch and convert them into PDF docs. This is an amazing idea.

Neat Desk for Mac Homepage

WorldCard Mac

The WorldCard Mac is a palm-sized business card scanner that combines elegance with award-winning design.Together with the bundled software you can scan business cards, automatically extract information and save it directly into a database. Mac users can also export information to the Address Book.

WorldCard Mac Homepage

Apple G4 Clock

This clock is made from the side panel of a retired Mac G4, and it has been transformed into a working wall clock using a USA made quartz drive movement. The clock measures 16"w x 16"h, and looks pretty cool.

Apple G4 Clock Homepage

MugMouse Homepage

MugMouse plays on the idea of deliberately choosing to use a slower mouse for a while. Filled with tea or coffee you have to move it more carefully than a normal mouse. Do certain tasks at the computer deserve a bit more time, reflection or personal involvement? Checking your email, visiting your favourite website or blog, reading the daily news, shopping etc. MugMouse can be seen as a reward; serving as a signal to yourself and others that you are having a little time away from your work.

MugMouse Homepage

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).

Read the first part here: Incredible Workspaces: Part I.

Setting up your office has to be perfect, it has got to be tailored to your professional and personal needs, it needs to get your creative and inspirational juices flowing, it has to have limited distractions, speedy access to all the tools of your trade and if possible, have all the coolest and latest gadgetry that you budget allows.

Could someone tell us why most cool workspaces seem to use MACs? Are Windows and Linux users not cool? Maybe its the MAC that makes the workspace cool.

All Systems Glow…

A cool glowing workstation from Hong Kong based photographer Mark aka Crouching Donkey.

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Geek Office Setup

Arthur Caranta’s geeky workstation, read his blog here: caranta.com.

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Elegant

This stylish and elegant setup is from Graeme Basson.

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MySpace

The workstation of freelance web designer and developer Lisa Risager.

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Home Office Upgraded

This sleek workstation is from m@rkos, he blogs here: medinaauto.blogspot.com.

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My Office

Cool, minimal and immaculate is the best way to describe this workstation from paszzz.

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My Workspace

There is a nature (maybe a jungle) theme going on here from student and freelance designer Chris Holder.

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Duncan's SOHO Makeover

This workstation from the creative Duncan Hopkins has been custom built by himself. View his professional work here: beyondbeyond.com/.

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Nuevo Sofa Naranja (and a Cool Workspaces)

The cool office from David Martinez Suarez.

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Mac Pro Monitors

The reason for all the monitors is that Mitch Haile is a software developer, view more images about this workstaion here: Office FAQ.

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My Workstation

I love this workstation, its simple yet feature rich, and simply love the flatscreen above the computer. This is from Geoff Harrison.

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Workspace

A lovely office setup from AtomicBunny.

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The Studio

A mood setting office and studio from musician sephtakular.

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My Computer Station

A great image of Jerome Slagle’s workstaion in the dark, I am not sure about the plasma ball, though.

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Brooklyn Home Office

This is the minmal workstation of Mackenzie Kosut, sleek office, nice view, Apple hardware everywhere, he must be loaded.

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By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).

Creating stunning space scenes is a great way to practice many photoshop techniques. It’s amazing that many of these tutorials use limited source files and most effects are created with photoshop itself. Rock textures are used to help create surfaces. It’s time to create your own galaxy!

Planet with Solar Glow

Beginning with a simple rock for texture this design created a new world with clarity and great detail.

Planet Rings

Create your own Saturn.

Planet With Glow

Similar to the top example but re-enforces the techniques.

Planet With Habitation

Starting with a satellite image from Nasa.

Fire Planet

5 minutes to make this make this planet explode into fire!

Space Explosion Tutorial

We think Psdtuts rocks! And so does this tutorial firely explosion with two planets colliding.

Deep Space Nebula

A colorful Space Nebula using noise with Gaussian distribution and difference clouds.

Photo Realistic Earth Type Planet

This excellent jpg tutorial shows how to make a replica Earth from scratch.

Nebula Tutorial

With realistic gas clouds. Scroll down the target page to find the tutorial.

Land Planet Training

Scroll to the on the target page to the Land Planet by artist Robert Proctor.

Detailed Star Field

According to this tutorial the secret to stunning star fields is “never stopping”, the more layers of stars the better it will be.

Gas Planets

Create a detailed gas giant complete with surface turbulence. Scroll to the gas planet link on the target page.

Asteroid Photshop Tutorial

Simple and quick asteriod with from no source file. Scroll to the asteriod tutorial.

Flaming Planet

Excellent jpg tutorial explaining how to make a flaming planet.

Solar Eclipse

The half way image looks better than the finished one in this tutorial.

Space Ship Attack

Well if we stretch our imagination in the space theme this tutorial of a flying saucer attacking earth just fits. Eitherway, we think that you will agree that the resulting image looks awesome.

Space Lighting Effects

Colorful Nebula with stars and a lens flare for full effect.

Make The Sun

Video on youtube showing how to make the sun.

Starburst

Make a starburst using the cloud filter, ping and then some lighting effects.

Planets and Stars Video

This video tutorial works through quickly, but gives a good feel of each tool and stroke.

Hyperspace Effect

Starting with no source file this tutorial explains how to make a warp effect with ease.

Planet and Space Scene

Comprehensive tutorial covering making a space and planet scene from scratch with a colorful end result.

Unusual Space Enviroment

Fxencore takes a produces and unusual planet image with stunning light streaks.

Space Landscapes

To follow this tutorial make sure you click on the image on the target page to load the whole tutorial. Also at the bottom there are links to the other parts. The finished image is impressive.

Fantasy Space Scene

Produces a planet & cloud scene which is more fantasy than photorealistic.

Creating a Planet

Relax to the music vibe whilst learning to build a planet with this video tutorial.

Stars and Nebula

Create a beautiful space scene.

Broken Planet

Learn to create a planet which is breaking apart with a firery core.

Putting It All Together

Combining techniques.

Space Explosion With Color

Radial exploding effect with shockwaves.