Keep your Mac running smoothly with CleanGenius – Win a copy here!
A few months back I purchased a MacBook Pro. Over the past few months, I have been gradually familiarising myself with the operating system and the features it has to offer. Like any other computer operating system, the Mac OS X needs regular cleaning, both on the inside and the outside. One extremely powerful utility that allows you to keep your computer running smoothly is CleanGenius.
EaseUS CleanGenius is an all-in-one and easy-to-use Mac maintenance utility to make your Mac OS run faster and perform better. It offers multiple ways to free up the disk space overall along with other useful features to maintain your Mac.
Key Features
- Cleaner: CleanGenius allows you to clean several of the caches. You need to be extra careful when doing this, because you can accidently delete all your downloads in the default Downloads folder of your Mac
- Duplicates Finder: Delete duplicate files in select folders. Especially useful to clean up your music folders
- Disk Usage: See how the various files are spread out on your drive and quickly delete large files
- App Uninstaller: Completely remove the unused apps & their related files
- Free Memory: Extremely useful when your system is running low on memory
- Login items: Check what items auto run on startup
- Disk Space monitor: Monitor the disk space on your computer
- Disk Ejector: Safely eject your external drives, network drives, local drives, discs and disk images by clicking the Eject Button in the menu
CleanGenius is available as an Appstore App as well as directly from the EaseUS website. The version on the website is 4.0 which includes some key upgrades:
- Add animation effects
- Classify the system program and application in Uninstall
- Drag the files to scan in Duplicates and Disk Usage
- Simplify the display in the taskbar and you can choose to display it or not
- Simplify and optimize the operation procedures
- Optimized new interface
However, v4.0 is available for a $29.95, while the App Store version retails at $9.99.
- Download v4.0 from the website
- Download v3.0 from the App Store
Win a copy of CleanGenius
Over the course of next week, Techtites will be running a giveaway. Up to 5 readers can win a copy of CleanGenius directly from EaseUS. All you need to do is:
- Subscribe to our RSS feed and/or like us on Facebook
- Share this post on Facebook or Twitter
- Make a comment here to tell us what your favourite feature of CleanGenius is. Remember to use your correct email address so that the folks at EaseUS can get in touch with you if you win a copy.
This giveaway ends on 11 May at 11.30pm GMT and I’ll be picking the winners using random.org. I will be sharing the details on the winners with EaseUS and the winners should receive their copy directly!
About Ajay
A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.
Uninstall programs on Mac – One such task
Learning how to uninstall programs on Mac is a very simple task, but this is something that confuses many users’ especially first timers. Removing programs from a Windows computer operating system based machine requires the user to go to the Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel and the select the programs that the user which to uninstall. But in a Mac this process is very different.
Uninstalling programs is one such task, and there are two different ways in which you can achieve this. Remember that there are two kinds of programs that will be presented on your Mac namely bundled programs and unbundled programs.
The bundled programs can be removed very quickly because all their bundled files are in one single location. Unbundled programs will require some extra manual work of removing preferences, saved data and other such files. If you fail to remove these other files, they will take up unnecessary space on your hard drive and create clutter in the future.
As mentioned earlier, there are methods of removing programs and applications from your Mac. This article will give you details about both of these methods.
Method# 1 for Bundled Programs
There are few steps involved in this method, but this is more suitable for your bundled programs. Since all the additional files are in the same location it is easier to get rid all of them at the same time. Here are the steps for carrying out the same.
- Double click on the “Macintosh HD” button on the desktop. You will then see all the contents on hard drive in the form of Applications, System and Library.
- Double click n the “Applications’ icon”. This will show you all the applications and programs that are installed on your machine.
- Click on the applications that you wish to remove and drag them to the Trash Bin on your desktop. This will successfully uninstall them.
- Alternatively, you can press the Ctrl button when you are reviewing the list application. Click on the “Move to Trash” option and then select the applications that you wish to uninstall.
Please note that if you are using this method, you will need to go to their folders and move all those file to the Trash Bin separately as well. Leaving these files on the hard drive is not advisable.
Method # 2 for Unbundled Programs
This method will use some third party application or removal tool. This is more suitable for unbundled programs, as these tools remove all associated files and data as well. Most of these tools work in a similar fashion to the Add/Remove option on Windows operating system. You just view all the applications that are on your machine (bundled and unbundled) and then you proceed to remove them from a common and easy to use interface. You can even use the features of these tools to find all the associated files and then remove them easily.
About David
David is a freelance technical writer currently interested in registry cleaner reviews, Mac fix software and UK video chat websites.
Folx: Excellent Downloading Client For Torrent
I have a desktop and a netbook, both of which run Windows. For downloading regular files, I use Internet Download Manager and for torrents I use uTorrent. So far there has not been a single downloading client that competently manages regular files as well as torrent downloads. Mac users however do not face the same situation.
Mac users usually employ Transmission for torrent downloading and another client for regular file downloads. Now there is a freeware available to them that eliminates the need of having 2 programs installed for downloading. This solution is called Folx.
Folx is a freeware downloading client for Mac operating systems. In addition to having all of Transmission’s features, it is also a competent regular-file downloading client. As download managers work, Folx distributes the files into threads and downloads them from different sources; this gives us the maximum possible downloading speed. Downloads that get interrupted can be resumed at a later time. Regular file downloads can be paused as well.
When it comes to torrent downloading, we all know that port forwarding plays a key role. Folx supports choosing the maximum number of transfers, proxy servers, and NAT-PMP; all these things facilitate port forwarding and will help achieve maximum downloading speeds on torrents.
Apart from these features, downloads can automatically be recognized by Folx and added to the main download queue. Plus the files downloaded can be set up to be sorted into folders which we specify; this means we can set up Folx to place our audio downloads in one folder, our video downloads in the other folder, and so on.
Great Mac freeware applications are undoubtedly a rarity. Therefore all Mac users should get their hands on Folx as soon as possible.
About Umar
Umar is a professional content writer all the way from Pakistan. He loves discovering and reviewing new websites. He blogs at http://www.techcityinc.com
Quickly fix Windows 7 problems with 7 Quick Fix
If you’re using Windows and not running a good antivirus, then you have a high probability of getting your computer infected.
While you may be able to disinfect your computer at a later date, some virii can mess up a lot of settings that your antivirus can’t fix.
Or, maybe you’re just looking to tweak a few settings in your Windows 7 installation.
Like its successful predecessor “XP Quick Fix Plus“, 7 Quick Fix is a simple, fast and efficient click and fix tool.
Features:
- Includes 21 common Windows 7 fixes
- Only 472kb
- Portable with no install just click and run, small and fast
- Visit 7 Quick Fix homepage
- Download 7 Quick Fix
About Ajay
A die-hard blogger, web developer, biker, singer, geek, non-stop talker, foodie, movie freak are just some of the words that begin to describe me.
How to Modify the Bubble Screensaver of Windows 7
The bubble screensaver of Windows 7 may be the Windows 7 users’ favorite screensaver. In fact, these transparent bubbles can become solid and metallic balls through a little modification.
The operation is simple as below: Start-Run-Regedit. After the Registry Editor is opened, locate in: “HKEY_CURRENT_USER? Software?Microsoft?Windows?Current Version?Screensavers?Bubbles”. Right-click on the blank in the right pane to new build a “DOWRD (32 bit value)” and name it as “Material Glass”. Then double click the “Material Glass” and input the value “0” in the popup window. Finally, save the modification and exit the Registry Editor.
Now you can open “Personalization”-“Screen saver” and choose bubble to preview the effect.
About Bob:
Bob is a freelance writer and software developer for registry cleaner for Windows
About Bob
I'm Bob, from Guangzhou City in China, a software developer and tech writer for many years.
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