![]() Macs Fan Control, available from CrystalIdea, is able to monitor all of the various temperature sensors scattered about the internals of your Mac. This is another Mac utility that can live in your menu bar and provide near real-time data about your Mac’s internal temperatures and fan speeds. ![]() At one time, Activity Monitor could display memory information in its Dock icon, but that useful ability is gone. Memory Clean is a good replacement for some capabilities lost in recent versions of the Mac’s Activity Monitor. Closing an offending app frees up RAM and puts a bit of pep back into my Mac. Instead, I look at the Memory Clean list of apps that are consuming the most memory. Memory Clean can be set to auto clean memory at the threshold level, but I leave that option turned off. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve noticed my Mac running slow, and looked up to see the red Memory Clean icon. You can also set a threshold, and if the free memory drops below that level, the menu bar icon turns red, letting you know you’re experiencing low memory. What I like is its ability to display the amount of free memory available directly in the menu bar. I’m not sure about that, but I will say it’s one of the better ways to monitor how your Mac’s memory is being used, how much free memory is still available, and which apps are hogging your Mac’s RAM. Memory Clean 2 from FIPLAB (basic version is free) is described as the ultimate app for optimizing your Mac’s memory. (Memory Clean can tell you how your RAM is being used, and which apps are gorging on memory it can also free up RAM space with just a click.) Yet…there it is in my menu bar: Memory Clean, my favorite memory cleaning app. While there’s some truth to that point of view, most of the time you’re better off letting your Mac take care of memory management, something it’s very good at it. They can do more harm than good by clearing out inactive memory that may be used again by an app or service.” While utilities come and go on my Mac, these five seem to always have a home they provide just the features I need to make using my Mac easier. How is that possible? Because I sometimes forget which ones I’ve already tried, and I end up taking a new version of an old utility for a spin. I’ve probably deleted more utilities than have been created for the Mac. Speaking from personal experience, downloading and trying out new Mac utilities can quickly become an addiction.
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