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MainMenu: Automated maintenance for your Mac

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.

Google Apps Calendar Maintenance

Google Apps Calendar MaintenanceCalling all Google Apps users, your schedule might not be spot-on this Thursday.

Users of Google Apps can expect some downtime during routine maintenance of the Google Calendar Thursday April 26th, from 8AM to 9PM. As is expected with any sort of maintenance, downtimes may and will occur and in this case Google Calendar might not be accessible for some time. Scheduled maintenance during daylight hours, what gives, Google?

This blow to users scheduling sure does make us wonder if Google Apps is worth using for our main scheduling application. It is understandable that system upgrades have to occur in order to improve services, it just sucks that we are now forced to suffer.

For Google Apps support you can check out http://www.google.com/support/a/

Drop a comment on Thursday to let us all know if you were affected by the maintenance and approx. how long your downtime lasted for.

UPDATE: More info on the scheduled maintenance from Google:

Why are we doing an upgrade?
We are updating some of our servers as we continue to improve Google Calendar. This is a normal maintenance update, and as with all updates we look to minimize the impact to our end users.

How will this impact my end users?
The impact to your users should be minimal. Only a subset of your users should be affected by the upgrade. These users may have trouble accessing their Google Calendars for a short period of time, generally less than 5-10 minutes each.

Will Google Calendar be down from 8AM to 9PM PDT?
No. This is the window of time that the maintenance upgrade will take place. During this time some users will experience issues accessing their calendar, but only for a short period of time each.

Digg down?

Digg downOne of our favorite sites (yours and mine) is down this morning. What does this mean for Digg? Crazy-cool new changes and upgraded features? Has Digg been hacked, or is this routine? "Out of service" doesn't look too good, but is this just web 2.0-speak for hold-on we're kicking-up the good stuff another notch? I don't remember Netscape going down to launch their video product site-wide, but perhaps this isn't a good comparison to make? Here's to hoping that this is nothing bad for Digg, and that it will be back online very soon. We miss you Digg, come back to us soon.

Microsoft announces OneCare official release

Microsoft Windows Live OneCare

After months of beta-testing, Microsoft has announced the official release of Windows Live OneCare, its Windows security and maintenance suite. OneCare includes anti-virus software, firewall, a backup utility, and spyware protection via Windows Defender, plus disk defragmentation, cleanup, and Windows Update features. OneCare is now available through the Windows Live web site and will cost you $49 per month year to protect up to three PCs.

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