#mac utilities

[macdailynews]

What 'MacKeeper' is and why you should avoid it

What ‘MacKeeper’ is and why you should avoid it

[cfsp key=”adsense_336x280″]”Literally every time I work in the computer store, we’ll get a customer whose Mac is plagued with problems they don’t understand: Their Mac is acting slow. It crashes. And more. And in more cases than not, we find that they’ve installed a program called MacKeeper,” Peter Cohen writes for iMore. “Removing MacKeeper fixes the problem. So what isMacKeeper and why should…

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[btrandolph]

Quicksilver is like carrying a light-saber and throwing robots across the room with your mind.

Anonymous (from QS site)

are you on a mac and not using quicksilver? try it!

I don't know where I learned about quicksilver, but it is a huge timesaver. I use the hotkey to open applications, files etc just by typing a few letters. if you want, however, the program can do a lot more...

quicksilver site

I had an issue after I upgraded to mavericks. here's a fix if quicksilver no longer opens on startup.

[biplayer]

Speeding up Mac via Terminal

There are some tips mentioned in Mac magazine. I am sharing with you here so that you will find useful. There are lots of ways to speed up your mac via apps available in the internet. But still there are some built in commands that you can go through it via terminal to switch off the unnecessary things that you are not using to scale up your mac's performance. Below are some of the tips

Dock Animations:

There are some times when you see that the dock animations are not that necessary, If you find yourself in that situation, you can use the below commands to disable it.

defaults write com.apple.dock autohid-time-modifier -int0;

killall Dock

Hit Return after the above command. To get the animation back use the below command

defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier; killall Dock

Disable Dashboard:

To be frank, i can ask the majority of the mac users, how many of us are using our dashboard regularly, I can confidently says that it is very few. There are some resources used by it default. So whey waste on something you never use!!. You can disable via the following command.

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -bool YES;

killall dock;

To bring the dashboard back use the following command

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -bool NO;

killall Dock;