MobileMe: A First look

We’ve all awaited the .Mac to MobileMe switch for a while now (some more than others). However, Apple’s 6 hour time table for upgrading to MobileMe turned awry and led into an almost 24 hour up, down, up, up, down cycle.

If you’re like most users experiencing the 24 outage, then you haven’t been able to login and experience MobileMe first hand. So why not take a look at our gallery? We’ve got pictures of the entire MobileMe suite of web applications and user preferences: from the login screen to storage partitioning.
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Freeware Find: IceClean 3.0b

Most of us know that we should perform regular maintenance on our Macs, usually simple things such as doing backups and shaking pizza crumbs out of the keyboard. But did you know that there are a number of UNIX System Tasks that are available for keeping your Mac running at peak performance?

A lot of Mac users don’t want to pull up Terminal and type arcane text into the command line, so MacDentro has a GUI front end that you can use to run those commands and keep your Mac cruisin’. IceClean, now at version 3.0.6 has menus for OS X Maintenance, Cleanup, Security and Network, and Utilities, all of which are packed with menu choices or keyboard shortcut equivalents that make mundane maintenance chores simple to perform.

There are other apps available — Maintenance and MacJanitor come to mind — that perform similar tasks, but neither of those programs comes close to the depth of capability of IceClean.

The price is right, too - it’s free, although you might want to send the MacDentro folks a donation if you find yourself using IceClean regularly. Download IceClean here.

Tip of the hat to our very own Victor Agreda for this find! Read

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