General tips to speed up and optimize your Mac OS X

Are you bogged down or tired with the persistent slow speed of your Mac. Have you tried everything to make your machine as good as day one? Obviously, there is no definitive cure for this problem. You have to identify all unwanted applications and other stuff that is accumulating a clutter on your hard drive and dragging down your Mac.

To speed up things and restore your Mac to full speed, you need to take into account certain things:

•Clean Startup Items:
Many applications automatically add themselves to the ‘Startup Items’ list and run every time your system restarts.
Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items and check out all items in the Startup list. Now, remove the applications that you do not require to run at each login.

•Close Bluetooth, Universal Access and Speech Recognition applications:
There are certain applications that run in the background and eat up your system processing power, such as Bluetooth, Universal Access, Speech Recognition, Internet Sharing, etc. If you do not use these applications, you can turn them off.

•Remove unused language files and translations:
Apple provides language localizations for various languages, such as Catalan, Farsi, German, French, etc. If you do not use these localizations on your Mac, you need to get rid of them to reclaim some disk space and make your system up and running.

•Take a look at your Widgets:
There are various unnecessary widgets that keep running in the background even if the Dashboard is hidden. To effectively tune your Mac performance, you need to disable the unwanted widgets and remove them permanently from the dashboard.

•Remove all stored temporary files:
If your system has a plenty of stored temporary files (such as overflowing, system, user, and font caches), this will result in Mac OS X slowdown. There are a number of terminal commands to help you here:‘atsutil databases –remove’ This will clean up all the pesky font buildup from the system.

There is abundance of third-party utilities in the market that will make your task of optimizing Mac much easier and convenient. One of the commonly used Speed up Mac tools is Stellar SpeedUp Mac. The software employs safe and robust techniques to clean up your Mac hard drive by removing all unwanted files and unused application from the system. Moreover, the tool is compatible with the latest Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.