That M2 chip and that dedicated hardware encoder chip would make short work of video transcoding. Until next time, this is Gary Rosenzweig with MacMost Now.Although I also urgently want HandBrake on iPadOS. I only recommend it for fairly advanced Mac users. For instance, you can end up resetting the positions of all the file icons in the finder, things like that. So, a good rule of thumb is if you don't know exactly what a setting or maintenance task in OnyX does, then don't tamper with it. So OnyX is a great way to be able to go and do that without having to use terminal commands. So you do some research on the problem and you find out that a lot of people suggest that maybe clearing a certain cache or changing a setting will help alleviate the problem. So, the second situation is if you have something wrong with your Mac and you want to try and fix it yourself. If you're one of these people and decide that you want to spend some of your time doing this, then OnyX is a great utility for digging into Mac OS X. If you like to change a lot of these preferences and see what's possible and kind of look under the hood and see how your Mac works. So, who should get OnyX? Well, there are two different situations I could see using OnyX. Usually because they're more useful in more situations. There's a reason why defaults are the default. And I also don't like to change the default settings with some of these options. As a matter of fact, as a power user, I never use these kinds of utilities at all. The system maintenance tasks performed by Mac OS X and the things that applications like Safari and iTunes do on their own are usually just fine for most use. Now, I don't recommend OnyX and utilities like it for most Mac users. You can also do the same thing in disc utility that comes with Mac OS X. For instance, under maintenance in OnyX, you can verify and repair file permissions. Now, some features you don't need OnyX to be able to use. Same thing with iTunes, or when you log in, or in Spotlight, and all sorts of miscellaneous setting that you can play with. In the doc, you can change the effect and to have it only show running applications in the doc. You can go into the finder and change things like hidden files are hidden or not. For instance, you can change how arrows look in scroll bars. You can change them with terminal commands, but OnyX provides an easier way to do that. These are settings that you usually don't have the ability to change in Mac OS X. Now, separate from maintenance tasks, you've got parameters. You can do the same by using a very long terminal window command. For instance, here you can rebuild launch services by selecting this and then hitting execute at the bottom of this window. So a lot of these things, as a matter of fact, just about all of these things can be performed in the terminal without having a program like OnyX. What it does is it executes a terminal command that you don't see. Now, it's important to point out that OnyX, itself, doesn't do most of the stuff. So there's no need to ever manually run these tasks. If you have Snow Leopard, these tasks will run when you wake your computer up or boot it up in the morning. However, that's not true in Snow Leopard. Now, the reason you want to have done this in the past is that if you have your Mac go to sleep or shut it down at night, these tasks don't get run. You can see there's daily, weekly and monthly scripts, and you can manually execute them instead of waiting for them to run automatically. And you can access those in OnyX under maintenance scripts. Now, your Mac automatically does a lot of system maintenance tasks. For instance, under Internet, you can select Internet cache, download cache, browser history, et cetera, and then click execute to clear them out. So for instance, under cleaning, you can click on different tabs and see different things like system caches, user caches, Internet caches, fonts, logs, and miscellaneous. It's broken up into several different categories like verification, maintenance, cleaning, et cetera. Let's take a look at exactly what it does and whether or not you should use it. Most of the questions I get about these types of programs ask specifically about OnyX. Video Transcript: There are dozens of applications out there that are utilities allow you to do maintenance tasks and change settings on your Mac. Check out MacMost Now 447: OnyX Maintenance Utility at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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