Revitalize, Restore, and Renew Your Mac
Posted 03/15/2007 at 7:50pm
| by Niko Coucouvanis

Deleting the attachment with the message works well—unless you’re a total email pack rat.
MIND YOUR EMAIL MESS
Your download preferences in email and Web-browsing apps can conspire to mire your hard drive in files that you received or downloaded on a lark only to never look at again. Specify designated folders for mail and Web downloads to keep the files from vanishing amid all of the important files in the bowels of your system.
TURN UP THE JUICE
Running Photoshop CS or CS2 on an Intel-powered Mac? Jack up Photoshop’s RAM allocation—but not too far, or you’ll choke off the RAM-hungry Rosetta translator and Photoshop will run much slower. Give Photoshop 75 percent of your RAM if you’ve got 2GB or more, and 50 percent if you’ve got 1GB or less. Find the setting in Photoshop > Preferences > RAM And Disk Usage.
Next: MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE INSPECTOR