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 | It's the beginning of a new year, a great time to give your Mac a tuneup and get the best performance out of it that you can. Okay, you should be doing this type of routine Mac tuneup more than once a year, but the first month of the year is a traditional time to launch new habits, preferably good ones. Once you have the tuneup out of the way, you can try out some of our power user tips, and take a look at SuperDuper, the superhero of backup applications. | |
Mac Performance Tips - Give Your Mac a Tuneup
Keeping your Mac running in a spiffy manner is mostly about preventing the accumulation of power-robbing grunge. I'm not talking about that dusty fan inside your Mac, although keeping your Mac clean is important, too. No, what I'm referring to are the extra data, applications, startup items, memory hogs, and lack of preventative maintenance that can cause your Mac to feel bloated and bogged down... Read more
| SuperDuper 2.6.4 Review - Backup Software for the Mac
SuperDuper 2.6.4 from ShirtPocket Software is a handy application that can back up your Mac's data, create a bootable clone of your startup drive, and create full and incremental backups. We took the latest version for a test drive and found lots to like, and of course a few things we didn't, but the pros certainly outweigh the cons... Read more
| Add a Menu Bar Item to Eject a CD or DVD
An Eject CD/DVD menu item in your Mac's menu bar is a handy way to quickly eject or insert a CD or DVD. The menu bar provides access to its items at all times, so no matter what application you are running, no matter how many windows are cluttering up your desktop, you can quickly eject a CD or DVD without having to move windows around to drag its icon to the trash... Read more
| Add a Recent Applications Stack to the Dock
The Dock is one of OS X's best features. It puts applications and documents at your fingertips, where you can access them with a click of the mouse. But what if an application or document is one that you don't use often enough to deserve its own space in the Dock? For example, I often make heavy use of an application for a day or two, and then rarely use it again for several months. It certainly doesn't deserve to take up dedicated space in the Dock, but it would be handy to be able to access it quickly during those few days I'm using it heavily. Fortunately, it's both possible and easy to customize the Dock by adding a Recent Items stack. Not only will this stack keep track of applications, documents, and servers you've recently used, it will also track volumes and any favorite items you've added to the Finder sidebar... Read more
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