Is your Mac getting slow?? Are you feeling tired of the “spinning pizza of death” ??? But you don’t want buy a new one????

Then fear not, dear reader, after our short list, your mac will be faster than ever.

WARNING: We cannot be held responsible if you invalidate your system in any way, allright?

Note: you should measure the performance increases using an Application such as Activity Monitor (located in Applications->Utilities) when applying software tweaks, and Xbench or Geekbench or even 3D games for Hardware.

Yet Another Note: No animals have been used in the making of this list (LOL).

Software Tweaks:

20 - Start uninstalling unnecessary apps using AppTrap (it’s quite simple just drag unto the Trash and wait for the confirmation pop-up). This much better than the conventional method of unninstalling applications because it also deletes any files left behind by the app itself (meaning you free more disk space which is obviously good);

19 - Install Monolingual: what it does is to remove unnecessary language files and binaries (the main disadvantage of universal binaries is that they contain both Intel and PPC binaries, which may not be needed);

18 - Install Onyx: believe me when I say that no Mac user should even use Mac OS X without it! Onyx simply deletes and cleans the crap out of your system, so that it can stay holy freakin’ fast;

17 - Switch to a 2D dock by typing the following command on Terminal:

      defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

16 - Kill Dashboard once and for all!! Use a nice little widget called Dashquit to do the job;

15 - If you are running Tiger you can always use Unsanity’s ShadowKiller to remove menu and window shadows. this considerably speeds up the OS in slower Mac’s;

14 - If you are using an older Mac you can download Process Wizard and choose to allocate given resources to an application that is running slow;

13 - Speed up iPhoto by keeping your photo libraries small, turning off Outline and Drop Shadow (in the Apperance Tab in iPhoto->Preferences), and by forcing iPhoto not to resize thumbnails as you browse through your library by pressing 0, 1, 2 to choose a standard size in Browse Mode;

12 - In the Energy Saver settings (System Preferences) deselect the check box to have your hard disk to sleep whenever possible;

11 - Go to the System Preferences Accounts Pane and deselect applications that you do not want to start running whenever you login (Skype and Twitterefic are merely nuissances…). To temporarily disable everuthing hold the Shift button on startup.

To be Continued…