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Dealing With Stubborn Applications: Installation and Spring Cleaning

Written on June 03, 2009 by Chris Ryan and 3 people have commented

Occasionally, every Mac user (from amateur to power user) has issues either installing stubborn applications or removing ones that just refuse to be deleted. Fortunately, there some utilities that every Mac user should keep handy for these instances.

Keep Your Mac Clean and Tidy With Sponge

Written on December 01, 2008 by David Appleyard and 2 people have commented

Dare to be Creative has released Sponge, a system cleaning and optimization tool for Mac OS X. The tagline for the product, summing up the aim of Sponge well, is:
You’re running out of disk space? You want to clean your disk to free up some space and get rid of the clutter? Sponge is a [...]

Beginning Mac: Application Install/Uninstall

Written on April 22, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 16 people have commented

When I first switched from Windows to OSX one thing that I initially didn’t really understand was how to install/uninstall applications. Obviously it is second nature now, but hopefully the information below will help a new switcher.
Installation
On Windows when you download an application it is generally a .exe file. It is sometimes compressed in to [...]