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52 Ways to Speed Up OS X

52 Ways to Speed Up OS X
After Apple recently announced a delay to OS X 10.5 Leopard I had to delay my iMac upgrade until the Autumn. This led me to thinking about how to speed up Tiger to get the most out of my ageing G5. This is what I came up with: General System 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. *Edit: Warning people have experienced problems with Monolingual so becareful what you remove. 13. 14. 15. 16. Eye Candy 17. 18. Dashboard 19. 20. As you can see the widgets I have running are all using an acceptable amount of Real Memory. Tinkertool Tinkertool is a utility that gives you access to additional settings within OS X. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. OnyX OynX is similar to Tinkertool however has many more options and preferences.You may have already done some of these in previous tips. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. Safari You can do some of the following by resetting Safari - click Safari > Reset Safari. 40. 41. 42. 43. Firefox 44. 45. iTunes 46. Other 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52.

Top 22 Mac OS X Products: Part One Our Apple expert John C. Welch picks 22 lesser-known applications that can make your Mac experience more productive and more fun. Part 1 of 2. This story originally appeared March 10, 2007. While Mac OS X is a top-notch operating system, there always are things it can't do, or could do a bit better. Adriaan Tijsseling's blog posting application is one I use every day for the various blogs I post to, both out in public and in my "real" job. Yes, I know, using an FTP application isn't l33t, all the cool kids use the command line. OK, Sync Services isn't technically an application, but it's my list, so there. However, that's the tip of the iceberg. When I use Missing Sync for Windows Mobile, from Mark/Space to synchronize my Windows Mobile phone to my Macbook, sure, it has an Entourage conduit, but I never use it. 1 of 5 More Insights

Must-Have Mac Maintenance Apps According to Murphy's law, anything that can go wrong will go wrong. This holds especially true for mechanical and electronic devices. If you don't change your car's motor oil, your engine will eventually seize up. And if you don't perform regularly scheduled maintenance on your Mac, your computer could be in a world of hurt. Forcing Background Maintenance Tasks According to Apple, every Mac running Mac OS X is supposed to perform maintenance tasks in the background. Mac OS X periodically runs background tasks that, in part, remove system files that are no longer needed. You could just leave your Mac turned on every night. We'll show you how to do that with a third-party application. Oh, and in case you're interested, you can manually force the background maintenance tasks to run by typing some commands into the Terminal. OnyX Free - This free application is the Rolls Royce of Mac maintenance applications. Cocktail MacJanitor Macoroni

Support - Product Security - Protecting Security Information Due to the sensitive nature of security information, Apple provides a method for you to: Verify the authenticity of security notifications Encrypt messages to send to Apple via product-security@apple.com 1. Obtain PGP You can obtain a commercial or free trial version of PGP Desktop from PGP Corporation. 2. This is our PGP key which is valid until May 14, 2014 Key ID: 0xD0261077 Key Type: RSA Expires: 5/14/14 Key Size: 4096/4096 Fingerprint: 1B7E 5354 8C25 39C9 4083 72BF 6E68 C714 D026 1077 UserID: Apple Product Security The Apple PGP key has an operational life span of two years. 3. Documents developed by the Apple Product Security team are signed with the Apple PGP key. Note for users of the security-announce mailing list: Some mail programs cause changes to messages, resulting in an indication that the PGP signature is not good. 4. When sending sensitive security information by email, please encrypt it.

WiFind - Networking & Security ecto Tuning Mac OS X Performance This FAQ provides recommendations for optimizing Mac® OS X performance. Additionally, it provides advice and links to advice for troubleshooting certain Mac OS X performance problems. Comprehensive advice on this topic can be found in the "Performance" chapter of our book Troubleshooting Mac OS X. Optimizing Mac OS X performance RAM, RAM, and more RAM Mac OS X loves RAM. Maintain ample free space on your startup disk Mac OS X makes extensive use of Virtual Memory (VM), which requires free disk space on your startup disk, aka your boot volume. See our "Problems from insufficient RAM and free hard disk space" FAQ to determine if you have sufficient RAM and free disk space to get the best performance from Mac OS X. Turn off the eye candy While I imagine everyone is impressed the first time they see a window minimized to the Dock with the Genie effect, this entertainment has a performance cost. Make the Dock less entertaining Open System Preferences > Dock. Disable or remove unnecessary fonts

Coda - One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X Good question. Coda is everything you need to hand-code a website, in one beautiful app. While the pitch is simple, building Coda was anything but. How do you elegantly wrap everything together? Well, we did it. And today, Coda has grown to be a critical tool for legions of web developers around the world. More than anything else, Coda is a text editor. But an incredible text editor is just a nice typewriter if you can’t easily handle all of your files — from anywhere. Then you’ll want to see what your code looks like. Believe it or not, we’ve just scratched the surface. Finally, hiding behind the Plus button in the tab bar is a built-in Terminal and MySQL editor, two amazingly powerful Tab Tools. And it’s all wrapped up in our Sites, which get you started quickly. Coda is a very good app.

gDisk Que aplicaciones usar en mac De los foros de Macnn, y traducido por eevyl para el GUM Málaga, nos encontramos tambien con un recopilatorio de programas específicos para Mac, aunque aquí encontramos tanto aplicaciones de pago, gratuitos y libres. Os dejo con la selección realizada desde el foro de macnn y traducida por eevyl, aunque la selección de programas aún no ha cerrado y siempre se les puede mandar más aplicaciones: Reproducir archivos de video: • VLC – reproductor de videos alternativo compatible con archivos como .avi, .mpg y .wmv • Mplayer – reproductor de videos alternativo compatible con archivos como .avi, .mpg y .wmv • QuickTime (Universal) – reproductor de videos de Apple que reproduce archvos .mpg y .mov • Windows Media Player – reproductor de videos de Microsoft que reproduce .wmv, .asx y archivos WMP 9 • RealPlayer – reproductor de Real compatible con archivos .rm, .ram y algunos más • DivX Player (beta, parcialmente Universal) – reproductor de videos tipo DivX compatible con archivos .avi

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