Returning to Our “7 Mac OS X Critical Utilities Deathmatch“, where We evaluate the most used and acclaimed System Utilities available for Mac OS X exposing all their features, learn how to use them for your System optimization. This time We will see how OnyX stack up against its rivals.

OnyX is the little application that could help you optimize and take full control of your System Performance, it is a small but powerful toolbar packed with excellent features to extend the already known efficiency of Mac OS X. OnyX is a ultra powerful System maintenance with countless tweakable features and parameters that brings peace of mind when it comes to keep your Mac OS X fresh and responsible.

OnyX is a Universal Binary application that can optimize Systems with Intel and PowerPC processors, it is highly recommended to login with an administrator account in order to use OnyX critical features.

Onyx Toolbar

This is OnyX main window, from the Toolbar you can access all the features and resources, control, turn on and off, delete and remove and optimize the System.

Verify Tab

In this section you can Diagnostic your hard disk for failure, damages and System File Structure, it can only Diagnostic Serial ATA disks, Firewire and SCSI are not supported.

Maintenance

In this section is where you can Rebuild Spotlight, repair Permissions and Ownerships and remove all .DS files that may hold any information.

Cleaning

In Cleaning you can delete the Caches Files for almost all Applications, browsers, quicktime, system, logs, recent items, cookies and more.

Utility

Here you can get information about the Manual Commands, Delete all your trashed files and locate any information inside any system files.

Automation

Set all your critical maintenances and let OnyX does the rest.

Parameters

Parameters represents the most important Tab of OnyX, here you can completely control the whole System, The Finder, The Dock effects and animations, Exposé and Dashboard, Safari, Login items, Spotlight, The Disk Utility, Control the Terminal and iTunes.

Summary
OnyX is a powerful tool for optimization, maintenance and personalization of Mac OS X, it comes with pretty decent set of features to help you get the most out of you computer. It is a freeware (DonationWare) utility available in all the Mac OS X flavors (Mac OS X 10.4 (OnyX for Tiger), Mac OS X 10.3 (OnyX for Panther) and Mac OS X 10.2 (OnyX for Jaguar)).

If We were to compare OnyX against our previously revisited Utilities then OnyX is the real winner so far, it does much more for its cost (free), but this race is not over yet, but write in your scorecard that OnyX is by far the most Economy-Wise choice. You can always donate a small portion of your monthly salary to the makers of OnyX, they will appreciate it.

Go get OnyX here
Website: http://www.titanium.free.fr/

Here the 10 Advertising oriented Photoshop Tutorials from the 100 Hardcore Photoshop Tutorials Series, I hope you master them and use it in your next Personal or Professional work, I have checked them one by one, tested and now I recommending them to you. I hope you like them all.

61. Create an Energy Drink Ad Design

In this tutorial, we’ll look at a flexible design solution that you can use to create one for an energy drink. It relies on a combination of the Difference Blending Mode and the Radial Blur Filter to achieve unique colors, contrast, and lighting.
Go see the Tutorial here.

62. Rolling Stone Magazine Cover

Designing a magazine cover professionally is one thing … what we’re going to do is copy something that’s already been done, though, so that we don’t have to spend years learning all the concepts.
Go see the Tutorial here.

63. PhotoshopUser Cover Magazine

This is going to be a simple tutorial to show you how to design a magazine cover in Photoshop. The topic is going to be about photography although you can change it to what ever you want.
Go see the Tutorial here.

64. How to Create a Movie Quality DVD Cover

In this tutorial we will be learning how to take a few different stock images and put them together with some text to make a movie poster/DVD cover design.
Go see the Tutorial here.

65. Designing a Software Box

n this tutorial, we are going to create a 3D software box using Photoshop. It’s rather simple but the results can be quite realistic, providing a creative way of going about and creating box designs for your own personal use.
Go see the Tutorial here.

66. Phone Advertising

In this tutorial I will show you guys how to make a very interesting and sleek Phone Advertising.
Go see the Tutorial here.

67. Add a Fresh Splash to your Design

In this tutorial, I’ll show you several techniques for enhancing a basic banner design for a product or service. These techniques can be employed to add a fresh splash to many of your designs!
Go see the Tutorial here.

68. Glossy RSS icon

In this tutorial we are going to create a colorful RSS icon for your blog.
Go see the Tutorial here.

69. Making a Print-Ready Business Card Using Only Photoshop

In this tutorial, we are going to design up a simple business card in Photoshop and get it ready for print with crop marks and bleed.
Go see the Tutorial here.

70. Rendering a Striking Matchbox in Photoshop

This tutorial consists of creating a digital illustration in Photoshop of a box of matches. We’ll be creating the matchbox cover design, the striker on the matchbox from a pattern, and placing the cardboard texture on the box.
Go see the Tutorial here.