System Utilities > System Maintenance

Description: Spotless is a simple utility designed to enable and disable Spotlight content indexing of volumes with the click of a button.Spotlight content indexing can cause major slow-downs on volumes that are used for backup purposes, video rendering, Photoshop scratch disks, and a wide variety of tasks that involve the transfer of large amounts of data. Spotless can effectively and indefinitely disable the indexing of volumes that you specify. Even if the volume is a removable device, the indexing status is remembered when you remount it - even on a different computer!Simply adding volumes to Spotlight's privacy list does not achieve the same results as using Spotless. You may cause the Metadata Server to crash, and the volumes may be indexed the next time you mount them. Also, while adding volumes to the privacy list disables content indexing, it also prevents you from finding the files by name.Spotless allows you to delete existing Spotlight indexes. This will free up the space used by the index files on volumes...

Keywords: computer privacy utility delete backup button server video 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 290 kb; Updated: 2007-05-29

Description: Updates LaCie FireWire 400/800 and USB2 drives to latest firmware for improved performance and/or compatibility.This updater will detect the version of firmware present on a drive, and offer an update if available. Not all products require an update.This updater is NOT for LaCie SAFE drives or Ethernet Disks with USB interfaces.Be sure to review the Readme for instructions.

Keywords: drive 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2.8; File size: 2355 kb; Updated: 2007-05-03

Description: With this soft you can change the file format for screen Capture in Tiger. The selected format are : JPG, TIFF, PSD and more soon.

Keywords: screen capture capture screen format file tiff 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 213 kb; Updated: 2007-03-13

Description: ultimateTask is a comprehensive utility with a simple, easy to use interface, to take care of some of the more important cleanup/maintenance tasks for your computer. ultimateTask is especially useful for System Administrators in charge of many Workstations. While Apple has many of its own utilities, there are times when you need to do certain maintenance tasks of your own choice, at a time of your own choosing. ultimateTask can run them all at once-or individually-from the applications finder menu-and can also be done via Keyboard shortcuts. There are many great Mac utilities out there, but ultimateTask is (and will in the future) be incorporating some of the more essential and useful tasks, into an all-in-one utility.In default state ultimateTask will:Repair disc permissionsExecute CRON scripts (Daily, Weekly, Monthly)Delete Log, System, User, Server, Crash, Temp, CoreultimateTask os x maintenance application will:Repair disc permissionsOptimize System (update pre-binding)Execute CRON scripts (Daily, Wee...

Keywords: application utilities computer keyboard utility scripts system delete 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.2; File size: 463 kb; Updated: 2007-03-11

Description: OnyX allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Safari, Dashboard, Expose, Disk Utility... to delete cache, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, to see the detailed info of your configuration, to preview the different logs and CrashReporter reports, and more.

Keywords: utility folders system delete remove files tasks disk 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.2; File size: 10445 kb; Updated: 2007-02-09

Description: Polizei is a powerful system maintenance and optimization tool using built-in Unix system tasks to help your Mac stay healthy and to keep it running smoothly. Polizei lets you execute the following tasks:Periodic routine scriptsVerify preference filesRepair permissionsRun periodic scriptsUpdate prebindingsRemove user and root cache filesUpdate Locate & Whatis databasesRebuild LaunchServices

Keywords: system tasks tool 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 650 kb; Updated: 2007-02-05

Description: What's different about this AppleScript utility:Other scripts quit as soon as you select "Show the Invisible files", then you must launch the script again. This script reads the state of your invisible files and displays another dialog box until you are finished.

Keywords: utility scripts script files show 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.4; File size: 70 kb; Updated: 2006-12-21