System maintenance Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dear Aunt TUAW: Should I clean up my drive?

by Erica Sadun (Feb 14th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I was looking at some apps that claim to help remove stored caches and temporary files. Are these apps a good way to clean up my Mac and remove temporary files? Your loving nephew, Chris Dear Chris, Auntie is super-paranoid about these third-party tools. When it comes to clearing ...

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 ...

IceClean does system maintenance and optimization for your Mac for free

by Mel Martin (Aug 30th, 2010)

There are a raft of utilities that provide a front end for the built-in Unix system tasks. Some are free, some cost a little bit, either through a purchase or shareware fee. Cocktail is a great example of a paid app that is very complete but it's not free. OnyX is a good free app with similar ...