Revitalize, Restore, and Renew Your Mac
Posted 03/15/2007 at 7:50pm
| by Niko Coucouvanis
If you’re sloppy with your Widgets, Dashboard becomes a veritable RAM hog.
DITCH DASHBOARD
Mac OS X’s Dashboard makes for some right-tasty eye candy, but at what price? Install DashQuit (free, elaum.free.fr/Design.php?titre=Software) to view a running total of Dashboard’s RAM usage, and if you want that 5 to 15 percent back, use DashQuit’s Stop button to quit Dashboard entirely. If you want to disable F12—Dashboard’s keyboard shortcut—open System Preferences’ Dashboard & Exposé pane and, in the list next to Dashboard, click the downward arrow and select the -.
WORD UP
Microsoft Word launches infinitely faster if you disable its WYSIWYG Font Menu (in Word > Preferences > General).
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