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Our utilities update report is a list of updates for Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. Though a utility can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our focus in this column is to bring you those tools that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems. This week there are updates for maintenance and benchmarking utilities, as well as a couple of filesystem utilities.

Maintenance

While MacPilot is more than just a maintenance utility, it contains a number of cache cleaning and optimization routines that are included … Read more

Our utilities update report is a list of updates for Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. Though a utility can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our focus in this column is to bring you those tools that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems. This week there are a number of maintenance utility updates, and one update for the handling of hidden files on the filesystem.

Maintenance

The popular OS tweaking utility MacPilot has been updated to fix some crashes when running root operations, and … Read more

Our utilities update report is a list of updates for Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. Though a utility can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our focus in this column is to bring you those tools that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems. This week there are only a few utility updates with some common maintenance programs, a popular cloning utility, and a search alternative for Spotlight.

Maintenance

The maintenance-related utilities updated this week were MacPilot and IceClean. MacPilot will allow you to access … Read more

Our utilities update report is a list of updates for Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. Though a utility can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our focus in this column is to bring you those tools that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems. This week there are updates for a couple of maintenance and data management and recovery utilities, as well as a partition manager and a reusable benchmarking suite.

Maintenance Yasu is a simple interface for running a variety of the built-in maintenance … Read more

Our utilities update report is a list of updates for Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. Though a utility can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our focus in this column is to bring you those tools that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems. This week the most updates are with hardware-monitoring and management utilities, with one for data recovery and another for system tweaking utilities.

Hardware The main utilities this week are with those that manage the system's hardware, either by providing information … Read more

Our utilities update report is a list of updates for Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. Though a utility can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our focus in this column is to bring you those tools that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems. This week the big updates are with data recovery utilities, but there are a couple of hardware and maintenance utilities as well.

Data recoveryDisk Drill is a relatively new data recovery package that is in development to be released as … Read more

Our utilities update report is a list of updates for Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. Though a utility can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our focus in this column is to bring you those tools that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems. This week there are updates for maintenance utilities, SMART status monitors, and virtualization utilities among others.

Hardware

In Hardware utilities, the SMARTReporter utility for monitoring the status of the computer's internal diagnostics has been updated to fix problems with e-mail … Read more

Our utilities update report is a list of updates for Mac utilities that have been released in the past week. Though a utility can be any tool that helps you perform a routine task (including image manipulation and synchronization), our focus in this column is to bring you those tools that help in troubleshooting Mac hardware and software problems.

In the past week only a few troubleshooting utilities have been updated, and these are primarily the ones that could help you manage hardware issues.

Hardware

The first hardware-based utility is SwitchResX, which can be used to fine-tune monitor display outputs … Read more