3 Easy Ways to Make Your Mac Faster

Now this is the most obvious Mac speedup technique. Nevertheless, it often gets overlooked until people actually start running out of space. Basically, the more free disk space you have, the faster your Mac is because it doesn't have to go through tons of useless information every time you use it. And if your Mac has an SSD drive (most likely it does), then you shouldn't clog it up if you want your Mac to work well.

Creating more free disk space on your Mac doesn't mean that you have to start recklessly uninstalling applications and throwing things away. For a start, clean up your browser cache. This simple action can recover megabytes, if not gigabytes, of disk space. You can do that from your browser's settings. Just look for something like Browser Cache or History (the exact term depends on the browser you use) and clean it up.

If you'd rather not poke in your browser's and Mac's settings, you can always use a program like MacKeeper that does all the cleaning automatically (including advanced stuff like cleaning up unused languages), has lots of other useful features, and is safe to use.

Another great way to free up disk space on your Mac is to find and delete duplicate files. Basically, these are files that somehow multiplied - songs downloaded twice, photos resized and kept in several folders, different edits of the same document, and so on. These useless copies can take up tons of space. Plus they make your files disorganized and things become hard to find.

While it's not easy to delete duplicates manually because it takes a lot of time and is not fool-proof, you can use a program like Easy Duplicate Finder to deal with the duplicates. This is a cool little program that is very easy to use, is very accurate, and can find all sorts of duplicates. It even connects to your iTunes and iPhoto to help you delete duplicates there.