The Top 7 Free Utilities To Maintain A Mac.
Encore Review: Mac OS X Tiger seems to be the most stable and dependable Mac OS to date.
So why are there so many Mac maintenence utilities? Check the price tag. The Top 7 Utilities are free.
Does that mean your Mac running on OS X Tiger doesn’t need maintenance?
The truth is that Mac OS X is highly sophisticated, very complex, and needs a little tuning here and there.
There are caches to be dumped, hidden features to be opened, logs to be deleted, and much more.
Should your Mac begin acting a little wonky, start.... (excerpted).
5 Reader Comments
Jimmy Porter said:
I have used Macaroni since it was sold for Mac. Once installed I have had no reason to access it again. Then of course, it might not be working. So far so good. Worth the price to me if it is working as I have had no problems anywhere, ‘cept powerball. Does that count?
clamhead said:
What? No Tinkertool??
nedra forché said:
Re Cache Out. Way back when I upgraded to Tiger, I followed Ken Stone’s suggestions and first learned about Cache Out.
What about the new beta version? Good for 10.5.4? Anything better in the freeware realm?
Jak H. said:
love OnyX—-have since v.9xxxx
less is better?
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Tony said:
To: Raymond J. Smith Jr.
It sounds like you had one bad experience with Applejack, and that bad experience may have been the result of some other problem. I have installed Applejack for years on all the computers I have managed, and I currently manage about 400 Macs, ranging from still a few Panthers to about 200 on Leopard. With the recent update of Applejack to 1.5, I can now run it on all of my computers, and it has not exhibited anything similar to what you describe on any of the literally hundreds of Macs I’ve used it on.
I use the built in functionality: “applejack auto restart” without hesitation on any computer giving me trouble, and it very often corrects whatever the problem was. If not, I run the extended version “applejack AUTO restart” and that cures more of the problems. I offer my experience with hundreds of computers using Applejack over several years to counter your (apparently) one bad experience, which cannot even be conclusively attributed to Applejack. For the record, Applejack never has *any* popup Windows that I have seen, so I really wonder what happened to your computer.
Regards, T
(Network Manager at a high school)