#Mac optimization

[techbroer]

Optimizing Your Mac’s Performance: Simple Tweaks for a Faster

Optimizing your Mac’s performance. Has your Mac been running slower compared to when it was new? Endless spinning wheels of death, and in general, just wanting to squeeze a little more speed out of your system? I feel you.

Keeping your Mac running smoothly would translate to enhanced work efficiency, mean prolonged life for the device, and make your daily computer use a much lovelier experience. This guide will help you run through some simple tweaks that help optimize your Mac.

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[revvethasmythh]

Legitimately having a rollicking good time on this tactician playthrough both because of the more challenging combat and also because I’m romancing Shadowheart, which is quite literally the only romance I’ve seen next to no spoilers for at all. What happens in the act 2 romance? No fucking idea. What’s some popular Shadowheart romance dialogue? Not a fucking clue. Perfect, delightful, great experience, 10/10

[mumblelard]

boba hates diwali fireworks more than labor day fireworks but she hates them less than fourth of july fireworks

boba doesn't growl but she has a "disappointed with your behavior" look that will make you volunteer to go to your room and think about what you have done

i still haven't found a mask to go with my gorilla suit. i want a white easter bunny mask with tall ears, but i will take whatever the river provides

finn and i are trying to schedule a tasting of the new buffalo chicken mac and cheese pizza that just came out. we like to text each other about cargo spills on the interstate and also try out ridiculous pizzas. maybe on thursday, after she gets of work, but her truck has been acting up so we are still in pencil

my newish bedroom wall neighbor is nice and more importantly loud and quiet in a compatible way. i am almost absolutely certain that supporting herself with the "selling artisanal ice to buckhead bars business that she started earlier this year," is code for trust fund, but i am judging myself for even thinking about it

i found a new die for my jar. the first one in a long time, but that is another post

[moonshine-dan]

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN YOU CANT MAKE YOUR TASKBAR VERTICAL IN WINDOWS 11 THIS IS BULLSHIT

[firebreadtroy]

eating all foods like cake so at the end i can still have an 😊🌟aesthetic✨️😌 photo at the right angles

[nikonstudio]

Mac OS Ventura is Slow!

So, if no one has told you so, then you have heard it from me. The first impression of it being “muffled” is an understatement. And yes the irritating notification “curtain” upon each boot up got flagged on Apple’s many support platforms and remains unanswered.

The following were disabled/deleted for speed just in case you have an older macbook like mine

Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices”

AirPlay Receiver

Focus’s Share across devices

Notifications (Turn off all unnecessary applications here)

Login Items

Reduce motion/transparency

Shake mouse pointer to locate

Game Center (logoff)

Animate opening applications

Minimise windows using scale effect

Even after a NVRAM/PRAM reset, I believe there’s still more to be done. The OS was so sluggish I made the painful decision to erase and create a new partition space for a fresh OS install on the Macbook Air that’s nevertheless packed with 16GB RAM. Yes, I am however, glad that I could still keep my Windows 11 Pro running on the adjacent bootcamp partition.

If all things fails, I may revert the 2 year-old laptop back to Mac OS Monterey, or do what Apple wants me to do - get the current M2 Macbook Pro!

UPDATE - Its significantly more useable when you install Mac OS Ventura over a clean partition as opposed to a quick update. In all, we may be talking about a 5% loss in responsiveness ultimately, a sign to say, Ventura will be the last version the 2019 laptop will be upgraded to.

[veworero]

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It also has a helpful Drag and Drop feature: simply drag any of your apps into the AppCleaner & Uninstaller window, and you'll see a complete list of files the app stores on your Mac.įree version: 3-day trial version is available. The app's interface is also clean and easy to understand for a newbie.Īfter deleting apps with AppCleaner, you should visit the Remaining Files section of the app to erase leftovers. It lets you remove applications, plugins, widgets, and app-related files. If you only need to uninstall apps on Mac, AppCleaner & Uninstaller is good pick. It comes with a free and premium version. All you need to do is select a drive, DaisyDisk will scan it, then you can delete everything that is wasting valuable space.

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As of 2022, it still looks like a useful tool for Mac disk cleaning that removes junk slowing down and reducing the computing power of your Mac.ĭaisyDisk gives you a visual representation of your Mac folders, making it easy to see what is taking up space and delete the folders you don't need. CNET and other tech journalists also praise functionality. This new tool notifies you of duplicates the moment they are created on your Mac.ĭisk Doctor is developed in the UK and was awarded the 'Mac Gem’ award by MacWorld in 2013.

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The app has seen a major update in 2022 which included a real-time duplicate monitor. And to make sure things like that never happen again, you can exclude specific files and folders from scan. If you remove something by accident, it takes just a click to put it back. Or review results to make sure nothing important gets deleted. And once the scan is done, you can remove the duplicates in a click. No matter what type of file it is: a photo, music track, or a doc… Gemini will definitely find it. It quickly scans every corner of your Mac and weeds out useless copies. Gemini 2 is the duplicate finder that allows you to free up gigabytes of storage and organize your files.

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Avast Cleanup Premium is a junk cleaner and uninstaller: it lets you run various scans and delete unneeded system files, duplicates, browser data, as well as remove applications.Īvast Cleanup doesn't come with built-in antivirus, so if you're looking for an anti-malware tool, you'll need to install the company's separate antivirus app. This cyber security software company has created many other products, and a Mac cleaner is one of them. You probably heard about Avast antivirus, or maybe you even have it on your Mac.

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Another pro is that CleanMyMac X is Apple-notarized, which means it’s safe for your Mac. You can download its free version right here. And it does a great job revealing your junk and other clutter, uninstalling unneeded apps and their leftovers, and keeping your Mac’s system clean and optimized. It also shows your downloads and lets you delete unnecessary files - no need to do this tiresome chore manually.įrankly speaking, CleanMyMac X is Tesla Roadster among other Mac cleaners. Its System Junk module runs a thorough scan of your Mac's storage, detecting junk like user cache files, system logs, unused disk images, old updates, and other stuff. CleanMyMac XĬleanMyMac X takes the first place with good reason - this MacBook cleaner combines features of both cleaning software and antimalware tool. Top 12 best cleaners for Mac: Free and premium versions 1. The best cleaning and antimalware functionality in one toolĭetects and removes junk, helps uninstall unneeded appsįinds duplicate and similar files everywhere on your Mac, including Photos, iTunes, and external drives.Ī handy cleaner may prove that your Mac is still alive and can actually perform at its best. In this article we’ve brought together some of the best Mac cleaning solutions around to clean, optimize, and maintain Macs that are available in 2022. To start off, we've made a quick comparison chart about the best Mac cleaners for Mac. We’ll talk about both types of cleaners here.

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There are definitely some effective free Mac cleaners, but the internet is full of cleaning apps you should avoid. But when those downloads accumulate, making your Mac more and more cluttered, Mac cleaners come in handy to remove unneeded junk and save valuable space. Netflix saw a 55% increase in app downloads, which proves we love our shows. We started downloading more content to our Macs filling up our SSDs (or hard drives) with apps, music, other things. Our digital behavior has changed massively within the last two years.

[thepolicewanttostealmythoughts]

im such an optimist i found the bright side for ronald reagan

[malwareremoved]

How to Remove CacheOptimization Adware from Mac

[wileys-russo]

alanna kennedy, “my left side is my best side”, golden hour beach

golden hour II a.kennedy

"mac gimme a piggyback!" you launched yourself onto the taller girl who grunted and stumbled forward slightly, hurrying to grab your legs as your arms wrap around her neck.

"can't your girlfriend do this?" the goalkeeper sighed, alanna a hundred or so metres ahead deep in conversation with ellie and hayley.

"don't act like you don't miss me when we're not on camp maccy." you cooed pinching her cheeks, the other girls turning to make their way down the stairs and onto the beach.

you'd grown up playing football with the goalkeeper and it was her who introduced you to alanna long before the two of you even started dating, but from day one you couldn't help but be drawn to the tall blondes confidence.

"right freeloader off! rides over." mackenzie dropped you down to your feet, racing onto the beach after caitlin who had taken peach off the leash, all of you playing a friendly in wollongong against portugal the coming weekend.

"don't you dare!" you stopped mid step, foot hovering above the sand as your girlfriend appeared. "my vintage dunks are not getting sandy or wet." alanna warned sternly as you gave her an innocent smile, forever raiding her extensive closet which may as well have been just as much yours as hers.

"piggyback then? turn around." you gestured as the blonde simply scoffed. "yeah you wish babe, sit." you nearly fell backwards as her hands fell to your shoulders and pushed you to sit on the stairs.

"lani!" you protested as your girlfriend pulled your shoes off, swatting your feet away as you tried to kick her away. "seriously? i'm not walking around barefoot its freezing!" you scowled as she shrugged.

"stop stealing my shoes then." the blonde smirked, holding them hostage in one hand as the other was extended for you to take. "give me yours then, they're already sandy." you bargained nodding down to the shoes on her own feet.

"why should i walk around barefoot? like you said babe, its freezing." the blonde scoffed as you fixed her with a firm look. "would you like to get laid in the next two weeks alanna?" you warned, her smile dropping and you could have laughed at the speed in which her shoes were stripped off and shoved onto your feet.

"you're like a horny teenage boy." you shook your head in disbelief, accepting her hand up. "well when your girlfriends as hot as mine is, you just can't help it babe." alanna smirked, lightly smacking your ass and stealing a kiss before you could tell her off.

stepping down onto the sand you watched a look of disgust cross the blondes face as she did the same. "why didn't you take your socks off you freak!" you laughed as she groaned.

"fuck i don't know i didn't think about it." she moaned in annoyance, handing you the shoes you'd previously been wearing and bending down to slip her socks off. "lani!" you shrieked as she tossed them at you with a grin.

"you're such a child." you shoved the shoes into her chest and took off walking, hearing her follow after you with an amused chuckle.

"work it for the camera, work it!" caitlin yelled out in a funny accent, mackenzie off running with peach and ellie as hayley posed for photos in front of the water and you all gassed her up. "oi el!" the brunette yelled as the defender zapped past and pushed her, sending her tumbling onto her ass.

"fuck now my jeans are all wet. ellie!" hayley took off after her with a growl, peach sprinting with them. "let me guess. you want trio photos?" you sighed as three phones were thrust toward you, the sunset meaning for optimal lighting as the mostly empty beach was bathed in a soft golden glow.

"would you like me to take these before its dark?" you smiled in amusement as the three girls bickered back and forth about how to pose and who to stand, finally falling into some sort of agreement as you snapped at least fifty pictures.

"okay. our turn!" alanna clapped, grabbing your hand as you hastily passed the phone to caitlin before you were dragged into your girlfriends strong hold.

"c'mere sexy." you squealed as suddenly your legs were wrapped around her waist and you clung onto her shoulders as she teasingly pretended to drop you. "now kiss me like you love me." the blonde grinned before puckering her lips expectantly.

"wait! my left side is my best side." alanna pulled back right before you could kiss her, your eyes rolling as did her best friends as she turned so her left side faced the camera.

"babe that was your cue to go 'oh lani baby you don't have a best side, they're both equally as gorgeous'." your girlfriend reminded, making a face as she clearly awaited the words to fall from your mouth which only curled into a smile.

"just shut up and kiss me you freak."

[businessdaily05]

IOS, Chrome, Android, Windows: this is why you put yourself in serious danger if you miss the latest updates

IOS, Chrome, Android, Windows: this is why you put yourself in serious danger if you miss the latest updates

Sundar Pichai talks about Google’s integrated system for many platforms during the Chrome keynote at Google’s annual developer conference. ©KIMIHIRO HOSHINO / AFP Online Security May saw a bundle of major fixes. Atlantico: May was a busy month for security updates, with Google’s Chrome browser and Apple’s Android and iOS operating system releasing patches to fix serious vulnerabilities.…

[ddejavvu]

Eddie throwing your younger niece/nephew/cousin(s) into the couch and in the air and all over the place while you’re gone for five minutes when babysitting them. They’re the ones squealing with delight and asking for it though!

Eddie has assured you that he is more than capable of babysitting while you make dinner. And to his credit, he's over twenty years old, and he's able-bodied. He should have no issues dealing with two toddlers that are winding down for the night already, tired after a day at the park.

Contrary to what he'd assured you, when you walk in to let them know that dinner is five minutes from completion, you watch in stiff, frozen horror as your niece flies through the air towards you.

Eddie's eyes widen in momentary terror until you shoot your arms out to catch her, and she lands in your grip in a heap of giggles.

"Eddie!" You snap, "What are you doing?"

"She was gonna land on the couch!" Eddie gestures to the cushion just behind you, that you'd accidentally covered when you'd stepped through the doorway. Admittedly, she could have easily stuck the landing, but the fact that she was airborne at all makes you nervous.

"It's fun!" She gushes, and her younger sister tugs at Eddie's belt chain. At her prompting, he picks her up, and she points vigorously to the couch, silently begging to be tossed.

"You threw the baby?" Your eyes nearly bug out of your head, and the girl in your arms only laughs harder.

"She's fine," Eddie insists, "I don't throw her far. Move, babe, I'll show you."

"No!" You gush, but he nudges you out of the way anyways. You watch with poorly-concealed fear as he gently scoops the baby into optimal throwing position, then softly launches her less than a foot onto the cushion. She lands softly, a mess of drooly laughter and shiny eyes, and clamors back over to him when he holds his arms out.

He's grinning down at her but soon remembers your distaste for their new game, and regards you with a cautious glance. You scoff at the twin pouts on their face, albeit her cheeks are chubbier than his, and you pass the girl in your arms back over when she reaches for Eddie.

"No more than three feet," You warn him, and all three of the guilty parties grin at each other excitedly, "Remember: If we have to go to the hospital tonight, no one gets mac and cheese!"

[pixelplayground]

PXL'S Anatomy of Screenshots

So you want to take better screenshots? There are multiple factors to consider, and if you don't enjoy tweaking reshade settings for every image, my ultimate method may not be for you. That being said, there are tips and resources in this guide that are applicable to everyone and you can select to explore those that are useful to your specific situation.

Disclaimer: I am not claiming to be an expert, nor am I offering to provide troubleshooting on an individual basis. This is a general guide and if you are unfamiliar with any of the concepts, please use the mighty power of the internet to find tutorials. I promise everything that I have learned over the years has been published and documented a thousand times better than I ever could.

There are five factors to address:

Your computer's inherent capabilities

The game's limitations

The mods you're using

Reshade

Post Processing

Graphics Card Settings & Drivers:

Become familiar with your graphic options. If you don't have a dedicated graphics card (i.e. a desktop or gaming laptop, these features may be unavailable and you should skip.)

I have an AMD Radeon Pro card which is designed for workstation level systems. It's overkill for sims, but useful for 3D rendering and modelling work. I have changed the following settings for DirectX 9 applications:

anti-aliasing - enhance application settings

anisotropic filtering - enabled

anisotropic filtering level - 16x

texture filtering quality - high

surface format optimization - high

Consider overclocking your graphics card to unlock it's full potential. DO NOT pursue this venture unless you are ok with the risk of burning out your card prematurely. I use at present, overclocked Bootcamp Drivers from BootcampDrivers.com obviously, if you're not playing on an intel based mac through Bootcamp, this is irrelevant to you.

None of these settings are useful until you address the default games limitations, which leads nicely into the next factor.

Addressing The Sims 4's Graphic Limitations:

Everyone should be familiar at this point with lighting mods, 4k, textures, disabling ssao, etc. but, I'm still going to spell it out. None of this is new information and has been covered many a time by various players ad nauseum.

remove ugly blue toned lighting in the world by choosing a lighting mod from @softerhaze here

overhaul your graphics.cfg file (i use a custom blend with features specific to me), however @simp4sims has done a ridiculous amount of work in providing a simple to install file that can be found here - read through their tutorials!! they have provided an excellent oversight of exactly what this does and why it matters

improve the indoor lighting for your sims - previously i used @luumia's no blu, no glo - recently i switched to @northernsiberiawinds better in game lighting mod here, though i have tweaked some of the settings to suit my own personal preferences

i don't use the HQ mod, i don't find that it makes enough difference for the amount of effort it requires to convert CAS CC

It should go without saying, but tweaking your graphics config file is absolutely useless if you can't play TS4 at it's maximum in game graphic settings!

The Mods You're Using:

Now that you've put in all this work into getting the game ready to make use of quality mods where do you start? Well, the CC you install matters. Whatever your preference, whether it be maxis-match, alpha or somewhere in between, priority should be given to using items textured in 2k or 4k resolutions, and specific attention should be paid to using wall and flooring textures with bump maps, and or high quality resolutions (this is important later for reshade if you intend to learn about ray tracing).

I will separately post a guide to creators with crispy textures because that is it's own novel.

Reshade:

Phew. Still with me?

There are many many many reshade presets out there, most are alike, but none employ ray tracing, and that is because a) it needs to be manually adjusted for every screenshot, b) they are paid shaders, and c) this requires advanced knowledge of reshade and a decent enough graphics set up that won't overheat - games running native ray tracing recommend a minimum VRAM of 8GB (please note RAM and VRAM are not the same) - i therefore do not recommend pursuing this option if your system does not meet those minimum requirements.

Start here to understand what ray tracing for reshade is. In my opinion, the shaders are well worth the price of $5 for the amount of work that has gone into creating them by the talented Pascal Gilcher. That link is a comprehensive starting point into expanding your knowledge of reshade and it's capabilities.

I have always created my own reshade presets from scratch, and while the core colorization settings I utilize remain largely the same, using ray tracing and re-light means every screenshot needs to be manually adjusted (lights repositioned, bounce and AO factors adjusted, etc) before being captured. @pictureamoebae just published a very timely post discussing the re-light shader and you can read it here.

Post Processing

Reshade does 99.99% of the work that traditionally would be accomplished in a photo editing software like photoshop. Occasionally, I need to adjust exposure manually, add depth of field manually, or color correct. Beyond that I use it to scale images to fit the resolution and file size limits of various platforms. Conceptually this reduces the amount of uncontrolled loss encountered when platforms like tumblr auto compress files that are too large. In reality, tumblr still makes images crappy compared to how they appear in my file folder.

optimize your images for various social media platforms using this guide

fix exposure or colorization issues using a software like photoshop

I hope that this gives you a starting point into expanding your methodologies. My process is continuously evolving and I find this aspect of the game most entertaining. For others who don't enjoy this process, it's probably not worth it!

Thanks for reading ❤ PXL

[smorbee]

iBook Pyramid Behind the scenes!

This is a long one. Also keep in mind we made this a year ago so were going completely off of memory at this point BUT we do have the files. Unfortunately we didn't save specific versions of it really early into its creation so all the blender files close to being finished.

We have an intense appreciation for funky old computers. People correctly identified inspiration from the Thinkpad 701C. Less obvious in the final design but something that almost certainly influenced us as well was the 12-inch powerbook g4.

There is something very satisfying about nearly-square shaped laptops.

Others mentioned the JVC 3100R pyramid TV which, you'll be surprised to learn, we had never actually seen until after working on this project. The resemblance is uncanny and yet, entirely coincidental. Honestly if we had seen this thing, it probably would have had an effect on our design because the way that hinge is set up is beautiful. Our thought process was simply just comically emulating the form factor of a modern laptop but with a giant CRT.

We're pretty sure the idea started out as simply wanting to design a full profile keyboard into a macbook-like laptop because funny, and at some point the butterfly keyboard came to mind and we said Screw it and implemented that into it as well. Heres the keyboard separated into the different sections.

Sorry to say that the keyboard does not actually contain any switches. (You'll see that this computer was modeled to be viewed a limited angle)

Heres the keyboard from the top.

Once we got going with it, the whole thing was turned into a big joke of course, clashing many different eras of technology into one. Such as this massive beige tank of a "laptop" having a single USB C port as its main I/O.

And same with the software. This is the texture for the display, Which was taken from our real (unfortunately not crt based) macbook setup at the time. Except not quite, as the original screenshot was 16:10. We simply edited the image to make it 4:3. This is running mac os 12 with a majority of the icons changed to early osx equivalents.

We'll be real and admit the animation is not very intricate, theres no real "rig" for the model, parts are just parented together because we did all this in about 2 days. That said, we had loads of fun animating it still, trying to imitate the motion of someone struggling to lift the heavy top up before it swings open with an inaudible, but easily imaginable "Thud". Making the whole body shake and the trackball jump slightly was the finishing touch to make it complete.

The wire for the trackball was made using a circle with the screw modifier and then applied to a curve. Here's what it looks like with each modifier applied sequentially.

And then making the trackball itself a handle for the curve, we can have the cable be dynamic. (Yes, we notice that the trackball in fact has no mouse buttons. No good explanation for that, I think we just forgot lmao.)

For the screen, we make use of a location transform on the UV mapping for the satisfying detail of the screen distorting from the impact, which we swear we've seen before but no matter how hard we (safely) bumped our CRT monitor we weren't able to recreate it. Nonetheless even if its not entirely realistic we wouldn't remove it for anything.

speaking of which, an utterly useless detail considering the resolution and distortion of the final renders and yet we added anyways just for our own amusement is that the display has a shadowmask, simply done by just multiplying it over the base screen texture.

Combined with a glass material over the inner part of the screen, it utterly destroys low sample count renders of the screen and makes the project at least 3x as prone to crashing so thats cool! (it crashed on us while we were writing this section)

We've learned since in future projects that trying to optimize polygon count and materials is still very important even for offline rendered content. We can never be truly free from the constraints of memory limitations 😔

the final step was getting a more authentic less "polished" look in the compositing. This step can get very complicated based on the specific look were going for, but for this render its really just basic color correction and some blurring and sharpening steps. We used the default fake jitter node in blender at the time, though in more recent stuff we use the non-denoised image with filters applied to it instead, so its less uniform between images and more uniquely degraded looking.

Though we'd do a number of things differently now were still pleased with the final result. especially in animated form.

Heres an overview of the scene:

This is the bezeled apple logo in polygon form. Its simply an alpha texture with a normal map:

Thats all for now! Thank you for reading!

[chronicallyonlinewriter]

My Work

Hi, this is my Tumblr. My name is Zee, and the TLoU brainrot is real. Currently working on the series: People Still Listen to Fleetwood Mac in the Apocalypse, featuring these two:

(Art by @mote-of-star-dust) 🎸 First Fic: Go Your Own Way 🎸 233,277 words / 31 chapters Joel Miller / Benny Cooper (Original Female Character) In the winter of 2025, two strangers are found in the wilderness outside of Jackson, and are brought back to the settlement. One is a doctor with infallible optimism, the other is just trying to find a life worth living. (@toointojoelmiller featured this fic as part of her Saturday Story Spotlight series, including a review from @march-flowerr that still makes me weep.)

★ Second Fic: As Long as You Follow (WIP) ★ Currently 197,202 words / 14 out of 17 chapters Joel Miller / Benny Cooper (OFC) | Ellie Williams / General Badassery Three years after the events of Go Your Own Way, Ellie is given another chance to save the world.

🔥 Bonus Fic: Warm Ways 🔥 6,290 words / one-shot Joel Miller / Benny Cooper (OFC) It's smut. That's it. That's the fic.

Good Things Happen Bingo Fics:

🦋 Sunny Side of Heaven 🦋 5,845 words / one-shot Joel Miller & Ellie Williams | Joel Miller & Sarah Miller Joel Miller, his daughters, and a whole lot of butterflies.

Other Fics:

🐈 Winds of Change 🐈 5,472 words / one-shot Joel Miller & Ellie Williams | Ellie Williams & Fuzz Aldrin the Cat Ellie wants a cat. Joel...does not want a cat. So they compromise, and Ellie gets a cat.

🩹 What Makes You Think You're the One 🩹 2,498 words / one-shot Joel Miller / Tess Servopoulos Small one-shot about Tess and Joel going from smuggling partners, to...maybe something a little more. Maybe.