Archive for May 15, 2009

All year long your mac has been collecting bits of everything everywhere. Temp files here and pref files there. Chances are you don’t need the half of them anymore. Here are 3 great ways to speed up your mac!

• Free up drive space on your startup disk. OS X uses the free space on your startup disk as virtual memory. So when you pack every last mp3 on that drive there remains no room for the virtual memory, thus performance decreases. As a general rule, it’s best to have 10% of your drive free at its fullest. For freeing up extra space I use Xslimmer and it does a pretty good job of slimming out all the unnecessary bits of code and language in your apps. Depending on the number of apps you have you can save upwards of 15GBs. This slimming of the apps speeds up launch time as well.

• Repair your permissions. You hear this all the time, basically because it does wonders and you should do it! After downloading this and installing that and then deleting that some things get a little bit confused as to how its supposed to exactly function. Repair the permissions basically makes sure that everything is being pointed in the right direction.

• Check you login items. If you have multiple apps launching as you log in you may want to disable a few as they tend to slow the whole launch process a bit. You can view which items launch at login by going to: System Preferences<Accounts<login items Here you can view and enable/disable apps from launching at startup.

Happy computing. (Oh, By the way, did you know I launched a new site? Check it out! alphaapp.com)