After the jump, check out our top 10 favorite Mac OS X tweaks for making your Mac experience even more personalized, customized and convenient. Lifehacker Top 10 Mac OS X tweaks.
Tweaking tools provide either basic or even advanced level of tweaks and the user using these tools can tweak, enhance and customize their working. Some of the functions of these tweaking software are Disk Cleaner, Defragmenter, Security Tweaks and more. They allow for registry cleaning, file encryption as well as decryption as well as tweaks for visual effects, start menu, explorer and various files and drives.
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Rainmeter
This software not only displays details like your battery power, memory, RSS feeds as well as weather forecast on the desktop but also records notes as well as to-do lists. The favorite applications can be launched and media player can be controlled. It is an open source software and it is free for use.
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This software does not collect the IP address or information that identifies the computer nor does it collect information about the hardware of software. In fact, it does not use internet connection except during activation. It can be activated any amount of time and the license does not expire and is available for all future versions. This provides various tweaks to help the computer work more efficiently.
TileCreator
It creates custom tiles on the start menu and opens applications when clicked. It allows for pinning of custom tiles for all applications and to create artwork on the start menu. It also helps in customizing existing icons and tiles to colors defined by the user or images which are user defined.
Classic Shell
This software not only enhances the use of windows but empowers the user. It has a start menu which is highly customizable and it has multiple skins and styles. It allows the user access to frequently used or pinned programs. The user can use it to find settings, programs, documents or files.
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This software is free and does not require the user to register. It has multifunction utilities which allow the startup disk to be verified as well as the structure of the systems. It is possible to run Disk Cleaner, Defragmenter, and other tasks to maintain the system. It helps to run periodic scripts, rebuild databases, delete applications as well as fonts and system cache. It helps to enable or even disable functions which are hidden from the finder, safari, dock, iTunes and more.
Ultimate Windows Tweaker
This allows for tweaks for inPrivate filtering, hiding compatibility views, disabling keystrokes that send to the default search engine, enabling quick tabs. It allows for certain UI as well as typo fixes and improved refreshing is done.
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These allow different kinds of tweaks including deleting files and folders that are not needed, reducing the fragmentation in the registry and file systems. It also gives the user the most information with regards the software and hardware of the system and using system tools which are not even known by most users including Security Tweaks. You can also see Desktop Sidebar Utility
What are Tweaking Tools ?
Gnome tweak tools allow adjusting of gnome options such as fonts, the title bar, changing the way Windows behaves, the behavior when the laptop lid is closed, desktop icons as well as menus and buttons. The unity tweak tools help the user to get an interface that is fast as well as easy to use and really simple. It helps to access different features as well as settings on the desktop. You can also see Desktop Customization Software
The other tweaking tools help with Disk Cleaner, Defragmenter, System Information, Security Tweaks and System tools. These all are not only easy to configure but also help the user to get the most information regarding their software and hardware and even use system tools which the users aren’t even aware of. It makes the systems faster and more efficient by deleting folders and files that aren’t needed and decreasing the fragmentation in the registry and file systems.
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SSD Tweaks for Mac OS X
After installing a Samsung 470 SSD in my Macbook Pro 2011, I found a number of different suggestions for optimizing performance and disk space usage around the Internet. Here’s a quick list of the steps I took:
Disable the hard drive Sudden Motion Sensor
Since the SSD drive has no moving parts, we can disable this sensor
Turn off Hibernate
Every time you close the lid on your Macbook, it writes out RAM to the SSD. Since my Macbook has 8 GB of RAM, this is a time consuming process, uses 8 GB of disk space and also contributes to the wear on the SSD drive. The downside to this setting is that if the Macbook loses power completely (for example, if the battery runs down completely), the current state will be lost (much like if you held down the power button to reset the mac).
I also made sure the drive wouldn’t sleep and disabled lidwake (not related to SSD, but it’s nice to disable automatic resume whenever the laptop is opened and has helped with some problems resuming from my Cinema display).
Confirm the settings with sudo pmset -g.
Disable file access time tracking
Normally the Mac will keep track of the last time any file was accessed. This contributes to the wear on the SSD drive, so it is helpful to disable it.
Edit the file and paste the following:
Reboot and confirm the setting with:
Adjust Spotlight settings
Spotlight is the Mac’s indexer and search tool. While a lot of people just disable this service (sudo mdutil -a -i off), I need Spotlight because Outlook 2011 uses it for searching my Outlook data.
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To adjust this setting, go to System Preferences…Spotlight…Privacy. If you exclude directories that change frequently, you’ll save wear on your SSD. For example, I excluded:
/Library/Caches
~/Library/Caches
/Library/Application Support/Riverbed/Steelhead Mobile/datastore
~/Downloads
~/Documents/Parallels (where I store my VMs)
Enable TRIM
Although technically not supported by Apple, I used the Trim Enabled for Mac to turn on Trim for my SSD. There is some discussion that this reduces the initial performance of the disk, but improves the performance over the long haul.
Adjust Windows VMs (in Parallels or VMware)
To further reduce the wear on the SSD, I made some changes to my Windows VMs based on the VMware View Optimization Guide:
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Be sure to review the entire PDF for other VM optmizations (based on your own needs).
Reduce amount of space used by OS X
Since having more free space helps contribute to the life of the SSD, I removed a number of unnecessary files. Great directions for this here: Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
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