7 step to keep your mac healthy

7 Tools to keep your Mac Healthy
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• For the four years I’ve been using a Mac, I haven’t used a
maintenance tool. All I’ve ever done was verify disk permissions, and
maybe use Drive Genius to perform some optimization. But even that
was just something ‘extra’ and not necessary according to me.

• The real question is, can maintenance tools really help in getting your
system speedy, healthy, and less prone to crashes? The answer is a
subjective yes. As a Unix system, Mac OS X runs certain maintenance
scripts of its own, without the user being aware of them.
• These scripts run at a certain time daily, weekly, and monthly.
However there are other tasks like clearing caches, repairing
permissions, and checking the disks which the system does not do on
its own. These may or may not optimize your system in a tangible
way, but they will definitely be a precautionary measure to make sure
nothing is broken.

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Maintenance


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• A straightforward tool, as can be told by its name, Maintenance is a
one window wonder.
• On launch it will offer to verify your disks and make sure everything is
okay, after which you can choose to run one of the few options.
• The user interface is plain, but it’s also very easy to understand. You
can execute the system maintenance scripts, clear out caches, and
rebuild things like the spotlight index.


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Ice Clean

• A much more comprehensive tool, Ice Clean is sort of your eyes into
the system. Most of the tasks are terminal commands that are
wrapped around menu bar items.
• For instance, you can query the Mac serial number which will pop out
in the reports. You can query CPU usage.
• When it comes to maintenance, Ice Clean can run the usual system
scripts, disk verification and other forms of cleanup.
• It also has a lot of diagnostic tools for network and security, which I
personally couldn’t test because it exceeds my limited knowledge of
such things.
• Ice Clean is a free tool, and if you need to know more about your
system, it’s a good tool to have.


Main Menu

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• A no fuss application, Main Menu resides as an icon in your menu bar.
The spiffy list allows you to access the system scripts, rebuild caches,
clean files, and some odds and ends.
• An overall excellent experience since it doesn’t use much space, has a
great interface, and does everything you would want it to do. Main
Menu is a free tool.


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Onyx

• The big name in Mac maintenance, Onyx allows you to run a whole
lot of maintenance scripts, along with cleanups of internet, fonts,
logs, etc.
• The options and presentation are easy and simple to navigate through
although there’s some technical stuff in there I wouldn’t touch.
• Onyx is a free tool, and highly recommended by a lot of users.

• Onyx comes from Titanium Software, the same developers who make
Maintenance, and also have a tool Deeper which unlocks hidden
settings in your system.


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MacPilot

• Less of a maintenance tool and more of a tinkering
tool, MacPilot gives you access to millions of settings Apple wouldn’t
dream of putting in any of the preference panes.
• There are again terminal scripts wrapped around check boxes, so you
can easily enable the ‘suck’ effect for the Dock, change it from 3D to
2D, and set your screensaver as your desktop background.
• Apart from this you can also run maintenance scripts and clear
caches, so it’s an all round package.
• However, I would say Onyx and Main Menu have far more options
than MacPilot when it comes to maintenance, but I guess that’s a
price you pay when considering a do-it-all. MacPilot costs $15 for a
license which is decent for such a package.

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TinkerTool

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• While we’re talking about a tool that gives you access to hidden
settings, Tinkertool is pretty much like MacPilot (although I’d say it
covers a smaller range of tweaks compared to MacPilot).
• It’s got a pleasant user interface that’s easy to understand (a win over
MacPilot), and most of all, it’s free.


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Cocktail

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• The most professional ‘tinkering’ tool of the lot, Cocktail also has a lot
of customizations you can play with, by the looks of it more than
TinkerTool and MacPilot.
• It’s also in active development (not saying the others aren’t) so new
features are constantly added. It can also run maintenance scripts and
clear caches.
• $15 is a good price for such an app, although for most I’d say free is
gold.


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Verdict
• Going through all these apps, it’s very difficult to make a choice based
on features since most of them perform the same functions.
• If I wanted to customize my system and keep it healthy, I’d say
Cocktail wins out with a clean user interface and loads of features.
• However, I’m just looking for a simple tool to do some maintenance
once in a while, for which the free MainMenu seems to be the best of
the lot. It’s got a minimal interface and performs all the functions I
would need.

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