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| 5 Best Mac Utilities And (Do We Need Them) Should Be Posted: 01 Jan 2011 06:21 PM PST Hidden deep inside your Applications directory is a folder marked "Utilities". This cold, generic title will scare a lot of people, and many will never venture inside, or if they do, won't want to open up any of those frightening-sounding applications for fear of destroying something. This is unlucky, as your Utilities folder harbors a wealth of great apps with beautiful icons and wonderful UIs, all designed to make your experience on a Mac even easier. Even to the most experienced Mac user, some of the utilities will lie unused. In this bumper article, I hope to show you what you can do with these mysterious apps/utilities, and how your Mac might just get a whole lot better! CoconutBattery is a tool that reads out the data of your battery. It gives you live feedback, what's going on in your battery. It shows the current charge of your battery as well as the current maximum capacity related to its original. If coconutBattery detects that you have connected the wrong charger it will warn you which is a very cool feature!  AppFresh is very beneficial free tool that keeps all applications on your Mac up to date by checking the internet for new releases and makes downloading and installing them a draft. It covers software updates from Apple and third parties and can be used as a replacement for Apple's own Software Update application to provide one central place to make sure you're up to date. For safety reasons, AppFresh will not overwrite your applications but extract downloaded updates and put them on your desktop.  Focus Booster claims to be a productivity boosting piece of software which helps you to accomplish your goals through the principles of the Pomodoro Technique. Essentially it is a timer. This application is fully customizable with alarms and time settings designed to help you eliminate the anxiety of time and enhance your focus and concentration.  SpaceControl is designed to be simple. It will warn you when the free space available on your startup disk goes below the chosen limit. You can choose to get your warning through E-mail. The limit at which you get a warning can also be changed, in the Preference windows. When you break that limit, SpaceControl will warn you by changing the color of its text in the menu and also put up a message box to warn you. It also has support to warn the user for other Volumes then the start up disk.  If you've ever wished to expand your Mac's capabilities, you most likely wondered what, and how much your machine could handle. This free utility eliminates the guesswork, providing current, comprehensive, and accurate technical specifications on every Mac known to you people. It maintains data on everything from maximum RAM and processor speed to performance benchmarks, expansion slots, firmware, built-in hardware, and more--all in a clean, perceptive interface that provides strong search capabilities and customizable smart categories.   |
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