Degunking Your Mac
By Joli Ballew
First Edition
Publisher: Paraglyph Press
Pages: 320
ISBN 10: 1-932111-94-8 |
ISBN 13: 9781932111941


Book description
For optimum performance of any operating system, you need to maintain your computer. And just as cars need regular maintenance, so do Macs. Periodic cleaning of the hard drive, file maintenance, application maintenance, and e-mail maintenance must be done. This is the first book to provide easy, step-by-step information on how to get rid of annoying clutter that can gunk up Macs and perform regular maintenance.
Full Description
Degunking Your Mac covers the latest operating system (OS X Panther) and earlier versions, including OS 9. It provides the essential tips and tricks to help all Mac users bring their computers up to top performance. This book is a huge time saver because it's organized according to the special twelve-step degunking process that will improve the performance of any Mac. The book includes a handy degunking chart that will help users really focus on what they need to do to clean their Macs. All of the crucial degunking tips and tricks are in the book, including how to degunk Macs that run dual operating systems, how to better manage hard drives that get gunked up with all types of media files, how to properly optimize the desktop, how to manage fonts properly and get rid of unneeded "font gunk," how to properly get rid of the extra stuff that OS X installs, how best to deal with spam, how to fix and improve the Dock and Desktop, and much more. The book provides proven degunking maintenance tasks that users should perform on a regular basis to keep their Macs running at optimum levels. Mac users really need this book because it will help them get organized (and stay organized), optimize their workspace, solve clutter problems, and keep their Macs running fast and smoothly.
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