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Save vital space with CleanMyMac 3
Give your Mac a spring clean and a performance boost with one of our favourite utility apps The latest edition of the acclaimed software, CleanMyMac 3 has once again showed itself to be a fine utility app for any Mac user. It’s an all-in-one solution for giving your Mac an MOT and keeping it clean and healthy. Like any machine you use over and over again, your Mac gets clogged up with junk. Most of the time you don’t even know it’s there, grinding your Mac slowly to a halt, and that’s where an app like CleanMyMac 3 comes in. One of its key selling points is just how simple it is to use. In this tutorial we’re going to walk you through how to Smart Cleanup your Mac, saving precious hard disk space in the process. It’s not the most exciting task in OS X, but it is very important to do it once a month at least.
“It’s an all-inone solution for giving your Mac an MOT and keeping it clean” View system performance
Use the Dashboard feature to keep a close eye on your Mac
Free Up This nifty feature enables you to free up some RAM and help your Mac run more smoothly. Perfect for anyone running prolevel, high-intensity applications that clog up your memory
Totalling up CleanMyMac keeps a running total of the amount of space you’ve saved since you first downloaded the app. You’ll be amazed at how much this total rises over time
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Menu bar widget CleanMyMac 3 also has a presence up in OS X’s main menu bar. This widget-like feature gives you a similar overview to Dashboard, detailing available space on your hard disk and the amount of memory currently being used. Functionality is limited to freeing up RAM and emptying your Trash, but there is the option to load up the full app from the drop-down menu.
Available space CleanMyMac is baked into OS X and your Mac, and as a result tells you how much space you have available. It breaks down your usage into different, colourful sections
Processor A quick and easy way to see in real time how much strain your processor is under. You’ll still need Activity Monitor to get more detail, but this gives you an at-a-glance overview