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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Speedup your Mac with Mac Duplicate file remover

Have you got whacked-out seeing the persistent slow speed of your Mac? Have you made every possible effort to get your Mac system free of viruses and other malware programs that may be eating up your system resources and causing a major slowdown? If all of these efforts have gone in vain, then must try to scan your system for unwanted or duplicate files. Your system may be storing large amount of redundant data on the hard drive in the form of duplicate files. These files can significantly affect your system performance and make it relatively slower and sluggish.

Mac users are accustomed to creating multiple copies of their important files present in the system for backup purposes. These files take up considerable amount of space on the disk that may slow down the disk operations. Moreover, if you uninstall or reinstall applications on your computer, it may only add to the file clutter and increase the number of duplicate files. This is probably one of the most common reasons for depletion of space on your Mac hard drive.

This problem is generally accompanied by a plethora of issues. The applications installed in your system would take more time than usual to start up. You may also come across various problems while surfing the net and performing multiple tasks at a time. In order to get rid of these problems and accelerate your Mac system performance, you should first search and remove all the duplicate files from your system. To accomplish this, you can take help of third-party software available in the market. With the help of these tools, you can easily remove all the unwanted data and applications from your Mac system, including duplicate Files, caches, logs, large files, language files, universal binaries, widgets and plug-ins, etc. They enable you to create an identical image or clone of your Mac drive.

I recently purchased an excellent utility named ‘Stellar Drive Toolbox’. It is an all-in-one software that allows you to perform a variety of functions on your hard drive, such as drive initialization, cloning, surface scan, volume repair, drive defragmentation, etc. It has a simple procedure to remove all the duplicate files from your system at one go and efficiently kick up the Mac performance:

  • Run Stellar Drive Toolbox and choose ‘SpeedUp Mac’.
  • Click ‘Clean My Mac’ button. All the drives with the corresponding volumes appear in the left pane. Choose the desired volume to be cleaned.
  • Click ‘Continue’. The software will now start scanning the selected drive for all Duplicate Files, Large files, Universal Binaries, and Language files.
  • When the process is completed, a message box appears on the screen. Click ‘Show Scan Result’ to see the scan result or click ‘Clean Up’ to remove all the unwanted files from your system.
  • Now, click on ‘Proceed’ button to start the cleanup process.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Increase Mac speed | What to do for increasing my Mac Speed

How to improve Mac speed? Easy and cheap tips to increase Mac speed are some basic queries being asked by users of Mac having a sluggish machine. This idle behaviour of Mac machine can cause a great loss to a business. Here we are discussing causes and cures for sleeping nature of Mac.
It is always recommended to optimize the Mac to maintain its performance. Optimizing simply means taking care of actual resources available for processes. Freeing the resources from unnecessary accumulations on drive, is also a task of optimization.

Adding RAM is the best to way to avail resources for Mac programs but it may be an expensive option because the cost of memory devices has raised in last few months. So, it is recommended to opt for an alternate solution ie; maintaining free space in Mac drive.

 

How to maintain free space on Mac startup disk


While it needs Virtual Memory (VM), the OS X makes use of free disk space on your startup disk, also known as boot volume. If there is no or little amount of free space on startup disk, you will find a considerable fall in performance speed.

The Mac disk cleaning tools can a great rescue for getting out of this headache causing situation.
The list of Mac speeding tips includes following clues.
  • Make your little simple by minimizing the items
    1. Open System Preferences > Dock.
    2. Select Scale Effect in the Minimize Using field.
    3. Deselect the Animate Opening Applications option.
  • Avoid the unnecessary animated desktop since it snatches resources from other processes and delays their performance.
  • Keep an eye on activity monitor, launched with Mac OS X Tiger, to see the amount of resources being used by running applications. Activity Monitor is located in the Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities folder.
  • Its a good idea to reclaim resources by closing nonessential widgets. To close a widget:
    1. Open Dashboard.
    2. Press and hold the Option key.
    3. Move the mouse pointer over a widget you wish to close. The widget's Close button (X) appears in the upper-left corner of the widget.
    4. Click the widget's Close button.
    5. Repeat steps 3-4 for other widgets you wish to close.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Clean Mac Lion memory | How to Free Up Memory in Mac OS X


Mac memory cleaner tool is a good option to free up memory and gain some space. Although the Mac OS X is smart enough to manage the memory resources on drive but sometimes its lacks in doing this. There may be a situation when RAM is held unnecessarily and slowing down the speed.

Just go to terminal and type “purge”. It will free up your RAM and get your resources back. This command cleans your cache at both disk and memory. 

It is important to note that its not just your busy RAM which is responsible for a slow Mac but a low amount of free space in boot volume is equally accountable. Talking technically, when we run a large application or several applications altogether, the requirement of memory increases goes beyond the limit of RAM. In this situation, the OS also uses the free space available in boot volume.

So, a user should take care of maintaining adequate free space in drive else, it may crash your application and can also cause a data loss situation.

If slow speed is a continuous problem in your Mac then we recommend to use a Mac memory cleaner for drive. Stellar Speed Up Mac will be best selection for this task. It removes all sort of useless items like cache, duplicate files, universal binaries, unwanted language files, system logs etc.