Mac Speed Tweaks

These are some methods using which you can speed up your Mac :)

- Disable Spotlight Completely: 
This will stop mds and mdworker forever. Two processes that often use lots of cpu and ram.
some program require the metadata server(mds).

$ sudo mdutil -a -v -i off$ sudo chmod 000 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/Metadata.framework/Support/*
$ sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
$ cd /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS
$ sudo mv Search _Search
$ cd /System/Library/CoreServices/
$ sudo mv Search.bundle/ Search2.bundle/
$ sudo killall SystemUIServer 

This will stop file indexation services and remove the spotlight icon in menubar.

- Disable Swapping:
disables memory swapping, not useful.

$ sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.dynamic_pager.plist$ sudo rm /private/var/vm/swapfile* 

- Remove Sleepimage: (huge file)
This file is a by-product of Safe Sleep and it's basically a saved state of your Mac's memory when it goes to sleep. MacBooks especially use this file to save your contents before the battery completely loses its charge.

$ sudo rm /private/var/vm/sleepimage$ pmset -g | grep hibernatemode $ sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 

Enjoy :)

Optimizing And Speeding up your Mac PC

Speeding up your Mac...
Here Are Few Apps and Some Tips to Speed up your Mac..

Get A Good Anti Virus For your Mac
VirusBarrierV6 is a Good Choice as it was rated 4.5/5 on Macworld.

VirusBarrierV6
VirusBarrierV6 is a high quality Anti-virus made for Mac. The free version of this program has many amazing features such as: Anti-virus scanner, Two way firewall, Anti-Spyware, and Anti-Phishing. The GUI of this program makes it very visually appealing to its users and the layout of the program makes it very easy to use.
Do a Complete Scan Using this App to Clean up your PC.
Requirements for this program are:Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
40 MB free hard disk space
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
Download here.

Onyx
Onyx is a very good system optimizer tool made for Mac. This is a free program that has many tools to speed up your PC. Some features it has are: The ability to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure some hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, QuickTime, Safari, iTunes, Login window, Spotlight and many Apple’s applications, to delete caches, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome and more.
I would recommend running this to clear your cache and get rid of any uneeded files wasting space and resources of your mac.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Download here.

Some other quick ways to clean out and speed up your system are:

Cleaning out your startup items
To do this follow these steps:
Apple Menu > System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items. You may be surprised at how many there are.

Turn off Universal Access, Bluetooth, Speech Recognition, and Internet Sharing if you don't use them.
To do this follow these steps:
Apple>System preferences then navigate what you want to remove from there.

Delete Widgets and Gadgets you dont use.
There are many of these on your mac but most of them you probably dont use!
To remove a gadget completely, click the + in the lower left corner, click Manage Widgets, then click the red circle next to the gadget you want to remove.

Enjoy :)