Podcast - Mac Geek Gab #94: Clean-up, Optimize, and Tweak Your Mac With The Geeks

by , 10:30 PM EST, March 5th, 2007

Show notes for TMO To Go: Mac Geek Gab For February 25, 2007

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Cleaning up, understanding, and tweaking your Mac are the topics discussed in today's show. Strap in and get ready for blast-off on this wild ride with John and Dave!

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Stuff mentioned:

• Memory leak
• Opening items automatically when you log in
• Lingon
• How to Start up in Single-User or Verbose Mode
• dmesg
• DivX for Mac
• Quickly determine which active apps are universal
• Easy way to delete preference panes
• Diablotin
• UNIX "du" (disk usage) command
• OmniDiskSweeper
• .Mac Sync
• Yojimbo
• Force Spotlight to reindex a drive
• S.M.A.R.T.
• SMARTReporter
• DiskWarrior 4
• Drive Genius
• Disable SWAP on Mac OS X
• Mac OS X Maintenance Scripts
• OnyX
• Cocktail
• AppleJack
• BBEdit
• Synk Backup
• NationStates - Come join the "Geeks Unite" region. Learn more from Wikipedia.
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This podcast is recorded on a Mac using Audio Hijack Pro. As for equipment, John is using a Behringer C-1 microphone going through a Behringer Eurorack UB1222FX-PRO mixer, monitored with Etymotic ER-6i Isolator earphones, then straight in to his Mac. On Dave's end, a Heil PR-40 microphone is used, and the whole show is mixed "live" through a Mackie Onyx 1220 FireWire-enabled mixer before being pumped back into the Mac (via FireWire, of course), and is monitored with Westone ES2 earphones. Each microphone is run through a channel on a Behringer Autocom Pro-XL MDX1600 compressor, a touch of reverb is added with an ART FX-1 processor, and the whole thing is then compressed in software on the Mac. The show is recorded to AIFF, and then converted and uploaded with an Automator script. Michael, aka Computernap, then goes through and enhances the show to provide you with the AAC version. You can hear more details of the setup and how it's mixed on Episode #32.

Theme Music: "The Answer", written by Jeff Steblea and Brian Ayles, as performed by Go Figure. "Made On A Mac" bumper by Mark Fleser

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