3 Helpful Finder Tips for Mac OS X Yosemite Version

With the release of Yosemite version of Mac OS X, there are plenty of tricks which a Mac user can make to do more productive tasks. Some of these tricks make it easier to work with the files while other can help you to see the bigger pictures.Now, Apple provides the users to option of upgrading their already installed Yosemite and with this, you can see many new features in the finder of your Mac OS X.

Below are the 3 useful tips for OS X Yosemite:
1. Go Full Screen:
The pre-existing traffic light at the top left corner of the finder or in application window work different than it was before. And, if you haven’t heard the changes in traffic lights, then you may be surprised when you click on the green light. In the version, prior to Yosemite, the green button was mainly used between a window based size and the size which a particular user had adjusted the windows to. With the OS X Yosemite, the main function of green traffic light button is to toggle the windows to go full-screen. It means, that not only the finder, but any app run in the full- screen mode.

2. Add a Preview Pane to the Finder:
Though, it is not a new feature as you are thinking. A preview panel has been available in the finder column views. But, after the release of Yosemite, users can enable the preview panel via the Finder option. The Preview pane will display a complete thumbnail view of all the items which are currently present in the Finder. The Preview pane uses the same technology as used by Finder Quick Look system, so that you can see the multiple page documents and view each page whenever you want.

3. Batch Rename Come to the Finder:
Renaming a file or folder in the Finder is very easy process, especially if you want to rename only a single file at a time. Batch renaming apps have always a long history is OS X because the system had never been an in-built multi-file utility.Though, there are some apps like iPhoto which can perform the batch renaming, if you have a large number of files in the Finder whose named need to be changed simultaneously.

Final Conclusion:
These are the only 3 major new features which have added in the Yosemite version of Mac OS X. In addition to these, you can also see some other minor feature in Yosemite OS X.
If you know any other new and interest feature, please let me know them via comment section. You can also use Stellar Drive Defrag in order to improve the performance of your Mac OS X.

Review: Speed up Mac Platinum Edition Software

This 4th of July, I got a lifetime activation code for the newly launched software called Stellar Speedup Mac Platinum Edition through a popular giveaway website. On receiving this, I was equally delighted and curios to run it on my Mac Mini hard drive. In short, I am going to review this software package and let you know if this tool is worth for Mac OS X.

Background of the Platinum Edition:

The software Stellar Speedup Mac Platinum Edition is an extended version of already existing clean up Mac application called Stellar Speedup Mac. While the Stellar Speedup Mac is dedicated Mac cleaner utilities that have Uninstaller, its Platinum Edition has 7 more software to offer including Speedup Mac & Uninstaller apps. But the real deal is, how beneficial is Platinum edition?

Tech Specification of the Speedup Mac Platinum Edition

• Processor: Intel
• RAM: 1 Gigabyte
• Free Space: 50 MB
• OS X: 10.6 and up to 10.10
• DMG Size: 38.9 MB

How Platinum Edition is useful to your Mac?

Its 9 utilities perform below operation on Mac OS X:

1. Clean up Mac drive
2. Removes unwanted apps and software
3. Defrag Mac hard disk drives
4. Path Finder for removing large & duplicate files
5. Repairs corrupt Mac disk
6. Secure Wipe Mac
7. Monitor Mac hard drive condition
8. Compare Mac performance with other Macs
9. Schedule multiple tasks

Let’s get insight of this Clean up Mac application and find out how and when this tool can help

Speedup Mac

One can use the speed up Mac feature of Platinum edition when Mac becomes slow or looses it performance. Now, one has to understand that Speed up Mac utilities only clean up the garbage data from your Mac OS X. If your Mac is running out of space then this app is recommended. But if your HDD is full of free spaces still running slow then user must check other factors like RAM, HDD failure etc. Anyhow, coming back to this module of Platinum edition, it gives you opportunity to clean up all junk files from every corner of the Mac hard drive.

Speed up Mac module pulls out crap data from Logs, Caches, System Junks, Trashes, Binaries, Large files and Duplicate files. So, if your Mac is cluttered with these junk data then Speedup Mac can prove to extremely helpful. It can clean up to many GBs of data if your Mac hard drive hasn’t been cleaned from long time.

Caution: Files once cleaned couldn’t be restored back. So be cautious.

Uninstaller

Clean up Mac drive operation can be extended to further level by using Uninstaller to get rid of useless/unwanted apps, plugins and widgets from Mac OS X.

Uninstaller is useful as it can completely remove a stubborn application or those apps, which can’t be uninstalled using drag-drop on to the trash.

Defrag Drive

Ever thought of defragging a Mac? Actually there is no built in app in Mac to defrag Mac OS X. Moreover, you might not need to defrag a Mac. I recommend defragging a Mac only when your Mac HDD is read/write numerous times or Mac is being operated for the heavy video editor software. With Platinum Edition<<Defrag software you can defrag Mac startup drive, external disk drives and manage all stored files on contiguous memory locations.

Platinum edition offers 4 algorithms to defrag and optimize any Apple oriented hard disk drives. Alongside, it also monitors the temperature of the drive and stops the process when temperature exceed threshold limit.

Caution: SSD drives don’t need defragmentation.

Finder

Unlike the above 3 apps, Finder is considerable little but useful at times kind of app. If your hard drive is cluttered with large, unused and duplicate files then Finder can let you know the exact location of these files. Once user gets to know their location, he can remove or reveal them using Finder.

The Finder app is helpful when your iTunes, iPhoto, iMovies, iWork, Aperture library accumulate over dozens of duplicate data. Though its tiny it might be prove it by flushing out unused files and saving good amount of spaces for your Mac.

Volume Optimizer

The app name sounds typical but it is Mac disk drive repair software, which rebuilds the corrupt directory structure of Mac internal and external hard drives. It won’t be wrong to say that Optimizer is the most professional application of Stellar Speedup Mac Platinum Edition. If your Mac hard drive is attacked by Invalid B tree node problem and likewise then this module can repair the hard drive in more than couple of clicks.

Apart from repairing damaged Mac drive, this software allows repairing bad permissions on Mac startup drive. If Disk Utility repair disk permission results aren’t satisfactory then try repairing the Mac permissions with Optimizer.

Wiping Mac

If you have decided to sell of an old Mac then Wipe module of the Platinum software is helpful in terms of Secure Erasing the OS X and files beyond the scope of recovery. By giving it a closer look, you will realize that Disk Utility uses Zeroes, 3 Passes and 7 Passes to secure wipe Mac. On the other hand, Wipe application includes 3, 7, 35 Passes and various other data wiping algorithms.

User can wipe the Macintosh HD with this utility since it gives you an option to make bootable media with which OS X startup drive can be wiped. Other than Mac’s internal disk drives, it can easily secure wipe attachable media such as USB, SD Cards etc.

Drive Monitor

This application of Stellar Speedup Mac Platinum Edition can let you know the disk drive health status. User can check connected Drive/Volume’ SMART status. It further monitors drives temperature and overall status of the Apple HFS hard drives.

Drive Monitor<<Surface Scan helps determine the bad sectors on the Macintosh HD and mounted partitions. If your drives have developed bad sectors then you can take full back up of its data using software Backup feature.

Benchmark

Benchmark module compares your Mac system performance with the stored performances of other Mac systems. It denotes the system performance in terms of Bar Graph, Line Graph and Raw data.

Smart Care

If user wants to run multiple tasks of Stellar Speedup Mac Platinum Edition on definite times, then Smart Mac Care is the option to go. Once customized, this module Speedup, Wipes, Repair and Monitors Mac disks.

Ratings:

• Interface: 4/5
• Performance: 4/5
• Price: 4.5/5
• Ease of Use: 4/5

Summary:

If you want bunch of Mac optimization utilities at the price of two utilities then go for Stellar Speedup Mac Platinum Edition. Among the 9 apps of this edition, Speedup, Uninstaller, Defrag, Wipe, Optimizer and Drive Monitor are literally the ‘performers’.