![]() It doesn't mean that our competitors are crap, it means that people will recognize the different approach in each application, and will buy Xslimmer if they believe it suits their needs best. And still, some people buy copies of Xslimmer. And some of our well-known competitors are freeware applications. The first Xslimmer crack came out in less than 24 hours after release of version 1.0. Mac owners are warm to newcomers, passionate about quality and highly discerning about the difference between a carefully crafted application and a quick, careless hack. You don't buy a Mac for nothing: you buy it because you are looking for something special. One of the most notorious aspects of owning a Mac involves the feeling that you are part of a group of nice, discerning people. As you may know, being recent switchers we are relatively new to the Mac family. I believe that this is clear not only for ourselves, but for the vast majority of the 'Mac community'. You see, it's not only the money, it's not even the prospect to become full-time indie developers one day: it's our pride and reputation that are at stake. We strive to provide our customers the best service we possibly can. Each individual sale is worth much more than the 12 bucks we charge for a license.Įach sale is a recognition that we have made something useful and valuable, a boost of morale, a reason to keep on working to the expense of our free time and our families. If they keep buying copies, we can continue improving Xslimmer and working on the other ideas we have. We have made a lot of effort, and people seem to like our software. We prefer to spend our precious sleepless hours working on new features and customer support rather than fighting some infantile dumbheads. We have too little time and too many things to do. Are we planning to do so? No, we are not. We haven't changed a bit (or a comma) of our code in that respect. Is this because we have strengthened our protection system? No, it is not. ![]() It's not too bad, this release has been out for a few weeks already, while previous versions had the dubious honor of having been pirated in only a couple of days. No amount of tweaking system files to save 3 gigs at the expense of system integrity is going to help you as much as deleting those twelve variations of Aunt Whatever wincing per one good version of her smiling at the camera.I've just found out that has been cracked. Each time this happens here, it’s because of high load.įinally, the best optimization trick if you want to save space: learn to delete useless/deprecate/uninteresting data and boring pictures (those that you would keep “just in case” at the end of every photo session, that end up wasting your hdd…). This is fixed in Snow Leopard, thankfully.Ībout the Mini’s jaggy mouse: check for background processes or anything unusual about system usage. Each icon on the desktop is a window by itself, and each time you boot OS X will generate a preview again. Or you notice you use things like Expandrive too rarely to make it useful to start them as you log in.Īnother optimization for Leopard and earlier: either try to keep as few items on the desktop as possible, or use an app to hide it. Sometimes you uninstall an application but its helper app stays behind, for example. I have ruined a perfectly working install in the past, and so have others, by trying to save an extra gig or two with Monolingual…Īs per optimization tricks: a great one is to periodically check which apps are started by your account as you log in. Unless you absolutely need the free space, and you absolutely know which apps can benefit from Monolingual treatment without encountering future integrity errors, I’d suggest looking at other ways to save space. Use Console to review logfiles for any unusual activity, such as a dead program calling for an unavailable resource every few seconds.Ĭurse Steve Jobs for making it all so damn pretty. Are you running anything you don’t need? Make sure iTunes is really off. Better yet, use a utility (again, Cocktail works) to reduce the frequency of the backups. If you don’t need Time Machine, don’t use it. I find shadows helpful, despite their expense. Disable screensavers in favor of a dark screen. Turn off as much eye candy as you can stand: the genie minimize feature, for instance. It cleans up some big log files, which can make a difference, and does a nice job with permissions and other optimizations. Not really worth the trouble in terms of drive space.Ĭocktail is a great housekeeping app. Appzapper is a cool utility, but the pref files it finds are pretty tiny.
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