Comments on: Speed up Mac OS X for Free

By: Secret Seeker

Secret Seeker — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:37:03 +0000

Hey Chris, good video. You forgot to mention what you set beamsynch settings to. Was it Auto/Forced/or disabled. Also I’m a little leery about enabling these features but would love to if they really improved speed. What else have you noticed besides scrolling speed? (Which from what I’ve read earlier on different sites that disabling beam synch would improve this). Correct me if I’m wrong and please elaborate a little.

Thanks Chris.

By: MightySandwich

MightySandwich — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:03:49 +0000

I used Onyx to enable single-window mode in Safari. It is available for both Leopard, Tiger, Panther, and even Jaguar. And single-window mode and simply enabling tabbed browsing in Preferences are not the same thing. Even with tabs enabled, if you click a link opens a new window, you will have to ‘Merge All Windows’ to keep everything together. With single-window mode enabled, however, even links that normally open a new window will instead be forced to open in a new tab.

By: sipai

sipai — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:25:18 +0000

sounds like a sweet program. it works only with leopard machines, though. is there anything like this for tiger?

By: norb

norb — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:54:48 +0000

I use imac 6, and all i can say it is FURSTRATING, apps not responding for ages, everything is crashing all the time, while all soft is legal, dreamweaver use made something like nightmare, all i can see all day long is that bloody colored circle which means computer is working :( , nothing helps, MAC OSX is one of the worst GUI i ever met, it’s so sloooooooooow, so inconvinient i couldn’t even imagine before i started to use mac in conclusion i have tried many tweaks and fixes all usless, and there is no other way for me just get back to linux or pc :(((( mac sux

By: WorldPeace

WorldPeace — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:20:39 +0000

Tweaking what can I say, Its a bad habit and addicting well it has been in the past lol, Trying to get the best out of Os or a program Is fun, I think Expessiaclly if you can get you hands dirty a little and really get to see whats going on inside the program or OS. I have used tweaking software and never really seen big results. None the less I have spent tons of time tweaking little things here and there over all Its just fun to look whats going inside the program/Os.

By: Matt Smith

Matt Smith — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:14:58 +0000

Interesting. Sounds kind of like TinkerTool for OS X. I was watching the live stream when Chris did the video, and at the time the website was down. Haven’t checked lately, but I should give it another shot.

By: WorldPeace

WorldPeace — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:13:51 +0000

By: WorldPeace

WorldPeace — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:12:27 +0000

Tweaking what can I say, Its a bad habit and addicting well it has been in the past lol,
Trying to get the best out of Os or a program Is fun, I think Expessiaclly if you can get you hands dirty a little and really get to see whats going on inside the program or OS.
I have used tweaking software and never really seen big results. None the less I have spent tons of time tweaking little things here and there over all Its just fun to look whats going inside the program/Os.

By: Chris Ham

Chris Ham — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:39:41 +0000

thanks for the information chris. I’m gonna try it too! :)

By: Reid Sprague

Reid Sprague — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:29:16 +0000

Dear Chris,

Another great tip! Just want to say that you are one of the reasons that I now run Windows, Mac OS, and two flavors of Linux – love the way you just use it and have fun with it and forget the stupid politics. Life’s too short!

Keep up the good work,

Reid

By: John Koetsier

John Koetsier — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:41:46 +0000

Did I read this right:

> I was talking with Jeff the other day, and he mentioned
>that he would be using Safari on his Mac, if only he
>could have multiple tabs open in one window, as he
>does in Firefox

You must be joking. Safari has had this ability since the beginning …

By: cananito

cananito — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:15:13 +0000

I wonder why OS’s don’t have just like an option to set like everything to the best performance. But well, aswome to have software like that.

I currently use windows (I rather use mac), and I have been tweaking arround a bit, tweaks are always useful.

By: MonkeyBrains

MonkeyBrains — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:19:12 +0000

Safari DOES have tabbed browsing…it may not be enabled at install, but a quick look at Safari Preferences, under the tab labeled “Tabs” of all things.

You can even drag a tab to pull it out of the main window making it a stand alone window, or if you have multiple windows open, go to the “Window” menu and select “Merge All Windows” and Safari will collect all open windows into one.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:50:19 +0000

Safari does have many options for Tabs
look in the Safari Menu, then preferences.
Check the Tabs tab.

By: B

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:37:24 +0000

I’m trying, but I really can’t figure out what you are referring to by this:

“if only he could have multiple tabs open in one window”

It almost sounds like an oxymoron.