MainMenu: Automated maintenance for your Mac

Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Freeware

MainMenu: Automated maintenance for your Mac

by Simon Kerbel Mar 11th 2008

MainMenu is a small utility for the Mac that contains a number of maintenance tools and system tweaks designed to keep your Mac running smooth as a baby's cheek.

With its small footprint and even smaller icon sitting in your menu bar, it's easy to sell MainMenu short. But this little program packs a lot of punch. MainMenu has one-click functionality for repairing permissions, rebuilding your Spotlight library, cleaning system, user, and browser caches, force emptying the trash, and more.

You can set up multiple tasks to run in a batch process, with the option to shut down or restart your computer after the maintenance tasks are completed.

MainMenu includes more advanced tasks as well, such as the ability to disable the dashboard, securely empty the trash, and clean archived logs. MainMenu supports Growl notifications as well.

If you've never been addicted to keeping your machine clean and running well, MainMenu is a good way to start the habit. MainMenu is a universal binary, totally free, and compatible with Leopard.

Tags: MainMenu, maintenance

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Big John said 12:54AM on 3-12-2008

How about what these do? What is a daily / weekly / monthly maintenance cron task? This is just a note for the dev., not really for the Squad to answer.

Featured Time Waster

Civiballs is a beautiful, soothing physics puzzle Time Waster

I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.

In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.

View more Time Wasters