Although Apple rejected this simple toll and dismissed it for not being very useful, I think that this KeyboardCleanTool is actually VERY useful. I don’t know how often you clean your Mac’s keyboard, but I work with it, eat on it, and I generally clean it once a week. What happens if you clean it [...]
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Keep your Mac fast and responsive with free iBoostUp
February 12, 2012
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Mac computers are great machines but they are not infallible nor maintenance free. Overtime your Mac will become slower and possibly unresponsive if you don’t run some maintenance tools that will purge bulky, unneeded and old files. iBoostUp is a free utility from Codeius that will optimize your Mac’s System File, fix your hard disk, [...]
How to free RAM on your Mac with one click: FreeMemory
February 8, 2012
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When you see the beach ball spinning on your Mac, it’s not the computer taking a break to think what to do next, and it’s also not telling you it’s time to go to the beach, but you are probably out of free RAM. The other day a friend came to visit and he was [...]
Set mouse and Trackpad to different speeds with free SmoothCursor
February 7, 2012
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If with your Mac you use both a trackpad and an optical mouse, you have probably notched that there’s no way you can have the cursor speed and acceleration of the mouse and trackpad, different from each others. Thankfully someone else noticed it and made a simple but very useful app that allows you to [...]
Firefox 10 released. Download links
January 31, 2012
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It took years for Firefox to get to version 4 and then within 9 months they’ve released 6 versions of the popular browser…I don’t know if I like this 6 weeks release schedule! Mozilla announced the release of its Firefox 10 that is already available for Mac and Windows users from the company’s website. Direct [...]
New free OS X app lets you open 64-bits apps in 32-bits to save RAM: SixtyFour
January 28, 2012
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An interesting utility was released on Friday by independent dev company 1951FDG. SixtyFour 1.0 is a memory optimizer for Mac OS X and it’s capable of forcing 64-bit apps to open in 32-bit mode for G5-based and 64-bit-capable Intel hardware low on memory. Once you install the app, you’ll be presented a list of your [...]
New free OS X app: change scrollbars behavior per each app in Lion
January 11, 2012
A new lightweight and very handy utility for Mac OS X Lion, will make a lot of users happy. When Apple introduced Lion, they thought it would have been a good idea to hide the scrollbars. They are still there, but they only appear when you scroll or when you move the mouse over it. [...]
February 15, 2012
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