System Utilities > System Maintenance

Description: Purity is the next step in data hygiene. Purity has been trained over the years to hone in on files and caches that collect over time and start eating up your harddrive space.Simply check off anything you'd like cleaned, and your Mac will thank you.

Keywords: files space data time 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 1024 kb; Updated: 2010-01-03

Description: Get the power of a command line without ever getting near it. Do all those things your system maintenance utilities try to do - but do them better and do them your own way. No typing - just 'clix'.You have to perform maintenance routines. You know that. But make a mistake - especially in one of those glittery AppleScript apps - and what happens? You'll have no such fear with CLIX. CLIX is safer - and for the skilled professional safer than even Terminal. From almost every security standpoint.CLIX: the Command Line Interface for OS X. Access to the full power of your operating system. Your computer runs smoother. You learn more, become better and more skilled at running it. CLIX makes it easier for beginners to get up to speed with their new system. For the professional developer or system administrator it's an indispensable tool - a work of reference used by universities around the globe, NASA, the US military, and scientific institutions everywhere. Version 2.0 is a 'milestone upgrade'.What's new in this...

Keywords: administrator utilities computer security system access tool 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 264 kb; Updated: 2009-12-28

Description: Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner is an award winning general purpose tool for Mac OS X. sLCC makes system maintenance simple with an easy point and click interface to many OS X functions. Novice and expert users alike will appreciate the powerful toolset sLCC provides. Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner is installed on thousands of personal and business systems around the globe.MaintainenanceSnow Leopard Cache Cleaner is a one stop solution for all of your OS X maintenance needs. Intel or PPC, Panther or Snow Leopard, sLCC has the tools to keep your system running at its best. sLCC Documents and the sLCC Engine maintain system health by providing full automation of common maintenance chores including virus scanning of internet downloads. The sLCC Engine can even repair permissions automatically after software installations. With the sLCC Engine, powerful system maintenance and antivirus can be completely transparent or as close as your menu bar.OptimizationSnow Leopard Cache Cleaner can improve system performance by tu...

Keywords: automation downloads personal internet business cleaner system repair 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 13824 kb; Updated: 2009-12-23

Description: BlueHarvest is a Mac OS X 10.4.x & 10.5 preference panel which allows users to:Automatically remove ".DS_Store" files.Automatically remove Resource fork (._) files.Remove .Trashes folders from removable disks.Use simple contextual menu Finder based cleaning of disks, folders and Zip archives.What's new in this version:New streamlined interface for advanced settings.Per-volume configurations.Option-clean to clean and eject a volume.Whitelist support for MacOS type codes & file extensions.

Keywords: advanced folders remove clean files file 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 989 kb; Updated: 2009-12-18

Description: Advanced Mac OS X disk defragmentation and optimization. Supports the very latest features of HFS+, including journaling, case sensitive filenames and adaptive hot file clustering (which means it won't mess-up the Hot Zone).What's new in this version:Fixed an issue where iDefrag would complain about inconsistencies on wrapped HFS+ volumes (when there were no inconsistencies).Fixed an issue where volumes were not visible when booted from a NetBoot image.Fixed a crash that some users reported getting just after updating.Fixed the percentages displayed in the statistics panel which where out by a factor of 100 (on Snow Leopard).

Keywords: advanced image file disk 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 3520 kb; Updated: 2009-11-30

Description: IPSecuritas is a front-end of the Mac OS X IPSec subsystem built in the kernel and allows to configure and establish secure IP tunnels between your machine or network with a remote network (for example your office network) using the non-secure services offered by the Internet. IPSec is a well-defined and established IETF standard and is considered secure (as opposed to for example P2TP, which offers limited security).What's new in this version:General 10.6 optimizationsEnabled NAT-T by default in the Fritz!Box wizard templateWizard Template for McAfee FirewallsWizard Template for OpenBSD 4.6Wizard Template for Symantec Gateway Security 300 SeriesFix for a kernel bug in 64-bit modeFixed a bug related to MTU reduction occasionally not working correctlyFixed the version information display in the about window

Keywords: information security internet network secure window remote office 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 7373 kb; Updated: 2009-10-26

Description: MacDust is a small and lightweight application designed to clean up your computer. MacDust performs many tasks that could easily take you another five seconds if you weren't using MacDust. The application also removes hard to get at files, and even files you've forgotten about. The Caches folder can get rather large, so using MacDust at least once a week can save you hundreds of megabytes!Tiger users can use 2.48, which is available at theapplegeek.com.

Keywords: application computer folder clean files tasks save 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 1434 kb; Updated: 2009-10-10

Description: FontNuke is a utility application for Mac OS X Tiger / Leopard / Snow Leopard that removes corrupt / troublesome font cache files. I created this application as a tool for my personal use at the office, and has become very useful for me. To grant individual non-admin users the ability to remove font cache files, without my involvement--is HUGE! Not to mention intelligent application quitting, plus a GUARANTEED reboot, makes my life easier. FontNuke removes system font caches, Adobe font caches (*.lst), Microsoft Office font caches, and now also (as of version 1.0.6) QuarkXPress 6.x/7.x font cache files. Not to mention it's free. I have recently added an option which purges spotlight indexes on startup volume from /.Spotlight-V100. This has been added due to some intermittent unresponsiveness when searching network volumes for some of my MCX clients. Please use this feature with caution. See the FontNuke homepage for more details.What's new in this version:Added support for OS X 10.6.xFixed intermittent cr...

Keywords: application microsoft personal corrupt network utility system remove 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 3891 kb; Updated: 2009-09-15

Description: iStat menus monitors your entire system right from your menubar, with 8 separate and highly configurable menu extras. You'll always know exactly what's going on inside your Mac!You'll be able to view your CPU usage, memory usage, disk usage and activity, network monitors, the internal temperature of your Mac, fan speeds, bluetooth status, and more. All from the Apple Menubar!What's new in this version:Mac OS X 10.6 support (requires at least Mac OS X 10.5).Aqua skin support in all dropdowns.New menubar layout selectors.Installer now allows you to install for all users.Added option for "Preferences..." item on each dropdown.Added red and purple skins.Display options for each mode are built into the new layout selector.New calendar and world clocks.Added over 20,000 new cities to world clock database.You can now add custom cities to the world clock database.Added several new clock formatters.New clock format selector.Calendar icon can now be place anywhere.Fixed bugs with week number calculations.Calendar s...

Keywords: calendar database network system format memory clock disk 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 5632 kb; Updated: 2009-09-03

Description: Print Therapy, previously known as Printer Setup Repair, is the only utility in the world designed to diagnose and repair problems that can occur with the Mac OS X printing system. These problems include, but are not limited to, the inability to open the Print & Fax System Preference pane, inabillity to add printers, disappearing print jobs, corrupted preference files, and inability to create PDF files. Print Therapy also includes some useful tools for deleting extra printer drivers, installing or deleting PPD files, deleting old spool files, backing up and restoring the printing system, and resetting the printing system.Print Therapy allows the user to do the following:Backup and restore the printing systemVerify and recreate the root userVerify and recreate the lp userVerify and recreate the lp groupVerify and repair the printing system permissionsVerify and repair the home user Library directoriesReset the printing systemDelete CUPS spool filesVerify and repair the /private/tmp directoryStop, start, or...

Keywords: utility restore library system backup repair create files 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 508 kb; Updated: 2009-08-31