You may have noticed your Apple Mail slowing down. It takes forever to open, load email, and even gives you the spinning pinwheel beach ball of doom. You maybe have tried deleting and pruning your email with no luck. Fear not! There's a little known way to optimize your Mail.app database so that Mail will run much faster. You don't even have to delete anything! This article will show you how to automate the process so your Mail database is automatically optimized every month - keeping your email client as fast as possible.Read the Article
Safari is debatably one of the fastest browsers on the web. When you first start using it, you're typically blown away by the speed...but before long, it slows down. After prolonged use, it can even come to a complete stop! Part of the reason for this is the favicon database - a collection of tiny webpage icons. This database isn't easily cleaned and given the small size of the icons is actually pretty unnecessary. This article will show you a quick way to get your speed back by disabling the favicon database and instead loading the icons normally.
Because of Time Machine's incremental backup method, only a small amount of data needs to be sent over your network to backup to a wireless Time Machine. You can connect a disk to your router or Airport, click a few buttons and you'll have a reoccurring wireless backup system. While this generally works out very well, that initial backup to Time Machine has to copy all your files and can take forever! Even if you're connected via ethernet you'll looking at a great deal of transfer time. This little trick will make that first backup incredibly faster.
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