Optimization Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

TUAW's Daily Mac App: IceClean

by Samuel Gibbs (Jul 15th, 2011)

OS X does a pretty good job of maintaining itself due to its Unix core, but there are times when you'd like to run some of its self maintenance tasks manually, and that's where IceClean comes in. Just using the built-in Unix System Tasks that underlay OS X, you can clean out system caches for ...

10 commandments of Mac optimization

by Mike Schramm (Jul 26th, 2007)

Jason Swadley of InsanelyMac.com let us know about his posting of the Ten Commandments of Mac Optimization (I especially enjoyed the HotWp1 joke). The list is an interesting one, because it's a good mix of actual software tips, and what you might call mindset suggestions. On the practical tips side, ...

Spring Cleaning now Universal

by Brian Liloia (Feb 21st, 2007)

Spring Cleaning, the system optimization, cleaning, and uninstaller utility from Smith Micro is now a Universal Binary. Completely rewritten from the ground up, version 9 introduces a wealth of new features and tools, such as a Task Scheduler, Permissions Fixer, a Housekeeping Scripts Runner, ...

View a graphical chart of file and folder sizes with Disk Inventory X

by David Chartier (Jul 19th, 2006)

Disk Inventory X takes a unique approach to helping you analyze your disk space usage by visualizing it as a graphical chart. You can see a breakdown of which types of files are hogging the most space, and clicking on a graphical portion will display the file's location in your Mac's system. Let's ...