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MainMenu: Automated maintenance for your Mac
by Simon Kerbel Mar 11th 2008 at 3:30PM
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.
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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.
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