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Daily Trick 13. Schedule Shut Down
As Mac users, it would be much more convenient if we can schedule our shut down time. Using this scheduling feature, we can shut down our Mac even though we are not nearby.
The setting process is quite simple, you just need to follow these steps:
- Go to System Preferences → Energy Saver
- Click the Schedule… button at bottom right-corner of the pane
- A pane will appear for you to set up your schedule for shut down
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Not limited to shut down, you can also use this setting to sleep, wake up, or even restart your Mac.
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30 Free System Tools for a Better Mac
It's not an easy task to maintain our Mac system clean, healthy, and appealing with just relying on built-in applications. We will end up scratching our head just to delete some unnecessary binary files to clean our disk.
Therefore, we all here decided to make a good compilation of free system tools for Mac. With many varieties of applications, from system cleaner to system tweaker, from data organizer to system display manager, we have those all collected in this article.
Click on the application title to get to application homepage.
Digging Up Extra System Preferences
Upon opening our System Preferences, straight away we know that there are some basic customizations can be performed to our Mac. But of course, this is the very general knowledge that even Tom and Dick know about it.
However, there are still some Preferences Panes created by developers yet buried down somewhere, probably they're not as popular as Secrets introduced by developer of Quicksilver but worth mentioned.
Using Activity Monitor
Activity Monitor helps me manage my applications. Let me guide you in a very simple manner on how to use Activity Monitor?
Speed Up System, Repairing Disk Permissions
My Mac seems to be getting old day by day. Maybe I should repair my Mac.
Repairing disk permissions can be easily performed using Disk Utility, one of Mac utility. There will be five simple steps.
Speed Up System by Clearing Caches
Search Caches
File caches are located inside two folders :
- Macintosh HD/Library/Caches/
- Home/Library/Caches/
Tips : Clicking on Home icon at sidebar will bring you to Home folder.