MacPilot: 7 Mac OS X Critical Utilities Deathmatch
December 15th, 2008 in Mac OS, Utilities |

In this opportunity We will evaluate MacPilot, a Mac OS X System utility that will help you customize the whole system, enabling or disabling much of the Unix features that make Mac OS X a fortress. You can optimize the
whole computer performance, network and file sharing in general, this is a hard rock utility that puts you in control of Apple Speed Demon. MacPilot brings an easy way to tweak the System and all its features, there’s nothing left untouched, all System Resources are exposed for you to set or remove them.
General
In the General section you can setup how the System’s utilities interact with Mac OS X, control some features of Apple iLIfe and iWork, this is an easy to access and a smart way to set all applications and utilities in just one window pane with a few clicks.

Disks

The Disks section is where you can repair your disks permissions and ownership, verify your disk configuration and defects, set the sleep time and enable or disable the Journaling
Network

In this area you can check your network performance and tweak it to get the faster connection, this area is NOT recommended for users without a previous acknowledge of Networking. This is a Pro area, do not touch it.
Login Items

In the Login Items you can add or remove those apps and utilities that need to start up with the System.
Startup

Control how your computer use its processors, check on screen Kernel Panics, mute your startup chime, set your startup mode, change your System language and limit the amount of Memory used by the System at Startup.
Spotlight

In the Spotlight section you can enable or disable Spotlight, rebuild and reindex your HDs, avoid Dictionary and Mathematical results in Spotlight.
Power

Help the System manage the energy more efficiently tweaking its Power settings.
Tools

With this Option alone you can make an Application, here is where the power of MacPilot rest, this is the Holly Grace, the area where you can manipulate Mac OS X completely, make it more efficient and responsible, in this area you can verify your files integrity, erase, lockup, clear chaches, rebuild all your applications and system preferences and delete corrupted ones, reset the printing system and more. Don’t forget to check the Tools Area.
Info

Info provides a complete list of your System settings, HDs, Network, Memore and more, it’s like the System Profiler included in every Mac, Info comes with a Character Map of your System, a full list of Keyboard Combinations, a Port List that lets you see which ports are assiged to the System or any Application or Game. In the Info area you can find a complete of Mac OS Error Codes and their meanings.
Summary
MacPilot is a joy to use, a well detailed and organized utility program that provides easy access to the most unthinkable features of Mac OS X, helping you put the System under control.
It has an enormous list of features, hundreds of them can help you increase your whole System performance. The Tools section should be placed next to General, both provide control of almost everything in your System, Striping out the General and the Tools areas you can have another great application.
MacPilot is sold for $19.95 (Single License), but for the tools and controls you have in your hand with MacPilot, the starting price should be around $49.95 or more, We pay hundred of dollars for offfice and business applications, why not for a Professional System utility that helps us streamline our Macs. Definitively it worth more than its original price.
You can visite MacPilot here. Please notice that We are not Affiliated, Endorsed or Sponsored by the makers of MacPilot, this is our own experience with this Application.
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