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Free Up Some Space With CCleaner
Whether you like it or not, a majority of applications that run on Mac OSX, especially browsers, store files on your Mac to help remember previous settings so that in the future previews can be loaded slightly quicker. Although this may benefit you in the short run, over time, the storage of logs, caches and other similar files can begin to take up considerable room on your Mac. A way to combat this is to use CCleaner, it quickly identifies...
Wake Up Time Helps You Get Up In The Mornings
Getting up on time in the mornings can be difficult for most of, even on the best of days. Not enough sleep? Too much work the previous night? Well, with Wake Up Time you are sure to be back up bright and early with a great alarm clock for your Mac. Although an actual alarm clock, or even an app on your iPhone may be more practical in this situation, having one on your Mac can also have its benefits....
Find Your Files With Found
Funky title right? Well, thats exactly what Found aims to do, it will find any file you desire across your Mac, Dropbox folders, as well as your Google Docs and Gmail accounts. With more and more files cluttering your Mac everyday, it can sometimes be a very laborious task to find a particular file you were working on. With a simple double tap of the control key, Found will slide out from the side of your screen and allow you...
Clean & Eject External Drives With CleanMyDrive
Managing all of your separate hard drives and USB sticks can sometimes be very time consuming, and viewing the available space on each drive can be a real hassle. CleanMyDrive aims to provide you with a centralized place where you can manage, eject and clean every external drive you own. A simple application that spends most of its time stuck to your Menu Bar, CleanMyDrive will provide you with a quick, and easy to access method of performing simple tasks...
Prepare Your App For iOS With Prepo
Submitting an application to the App Store can be a very lengthy process sometimes, whether its to the iOS App Store or the Mac App Store. Here at Mac Genius we review applications that are produced for the Mac operating system, but there is the odd application that when installed on your Mac can help with the submission and creation of iOS applications. Such an app which does this is Prepo, which makes creating the different sized icons needed for...
iClip: Copy And Paste Multiple Items At Once
Copying and pasting items on your Mac is a day-to-day activity which none of us can really avoid. But have you ever got into the situation where you find yourself copying the same extract of text again and again because you keep copying other items in the meantime? Well … iClip can save you having to go back to find the original text extract or image by saving everything you copy to its application memory. By creating an easy way...
Mactracker: Essential Information About Your Mac
Have you ever wondered about the technical specifications of your Mac, or any other Apple product that has ever been produced for that matter. Well … Mactracker can help you to discover everything you desire to know from your Mac’s serial number, to what kind of RAM it has, and even what date it was made. It does not matter whether you are a serious tech-head or know very little about computers, when it come to updating, upgrading, or repairing...
Free Up Hard Drive Space With DaisyDisk
Images, videos, music, documents and applications all take up valuable space on your hard drive. If you run out of space or just want to free some up for other files you will want to delete older folders and files that you no longer need. However finding these files that are no longer wanted can sometimes be a bit of a pain and may take up a substantial amount of time. DaisyDisk can help out by providing a visual representation...
Kaleidoscope: Compare File Versions on your Mac
Kaleidoscope, from the creative minds behind Made By Sofa is a very helpful application that will save you time when looking for differences in your documents. It may be that you are a web designer, and need to identify changes in code from one file to another, or a budding photographer needing to figure out what changes have been made to a photo, well, Kaleidoscope can do all that for you, and more. Starting Kaleidoscope will present you with the “main window”...
MainMenu: Keeping Your Mac In Shape
Every Mac needs to be kept in a good condition, so that the tasks that you depend upon run smoothly, efficiently, and take as little time as possible. Keeping you Mac in a good condition can sometimes be a laborious task, requiring you to free up hard-drive space, clean up your workspaces, tweak those hidden settings under the hood of OSX and fine-tuning your computer to get the most out of it. Now all of these tasks can be carried...
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