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 | This week we're asking a simple question: What's your favorite mouse? While 'Mickey' may be one of the top answers, we're thinking more along the lines of a mouse you can use with your Mac. Let us know what you like and dislike about your everyday mouse. We've started assembling a collection of performance tips that everyone can use, no matter what type of Mac they have, or how they use it. I'll add more tips every week. This week's tips can help if you have a marginally performing Mac or you just want to keep your system in tip-top shape. | |
What's Your Favorite Mouse for the Mac?
Not every one uses the mouse supplied with their Mac. Until Apple introduced the Magic Mouse, I routinely tossed Apple-supplied mice in a box for 'emergency' use and replaced them with a better third-party mouse. But even the Magic Mouse isn't a good fit for every Mac user. We want to know what mice all of you are using with your Macs, and at the same time, create a list of mouse-sized reviews of mice. Add your mouse to our list, or take a look at what mice other About: Macs readers are using... Read more
| Mac Performance Tips: Remove Login Items You Don't Need
Startup items, also know as login items, are applications, utilities, and helpers that run automatically during the startup or login process. In many cases, application installers add login items that an application may need. In other cases, the installers add login items because they assume you want to run their precious application every time you start your Mac. Regardless of the reason they're installed, if you're not using them, login items take up resources by eating CPU cycles, reserving memory for their use, or running background processes that you may not even use... Read more
| Mac Performance Tips: Reduce or Eliminate Widgets
Apple introduced Dashboard and widgets with Tiger (OS X 10.4). Widgets can be helpful little applications; they can display the weather forecast, provide stock updates, even control iTunes. But they also tend to consume memory, even when you're not viewing them in Dashboard. And when you are using them, they consume some CPU cycles that may be better left free for other applications to use... Read more
| Hook Your Mac Up to Your HDTV
One of the first things you may notice about your new big-screen HDTV is that it has more connections for video than your old TV ever dreamed about. It probably has two or three HDMI connections, maybe a DVI connector, a VGA connector, and at least one component video connection. And those are just the connections most commonly used for high definition. It's shame to let all those connections go to waste. Your Mac just happens to be sitting nearby; why not hook it up to your new HDTV?... Read more
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