To troubleshoot a Mac, Apple has provided sufficient in-built set of great utilities OS X, which when used upon yield the best solution needed for the proper maintenance of a Macintosh. All you need to do is Go to << Applications << Utilities.
1) Disk Utility
The 'Disk utility' needs no introduction. A Mac geek or newbie’s after a period of time becomes well aware of the importance of this utility and why not, when this feature alone manages the complete hard drive solution.
Why we use Disk utility for?
Formats Hard Drives
Mount and Unmount partitions
Create and burn disk images
Help to diagnose the drive and partitions
Also repairs common faults that might have occurred on the disk
2) Network utility
Go to << Applications << Utilities << Network Utility
Got any concern with the network connection or mail server? Then need to jump to the 'Network Utility' in Mac OS X, which is the one-stop solution for all networking troubles. The network utility can Ping up your server alias which is conveyed and transfers to the server and answers back. The Traceroute tool helps you to reduce the several stops that the request of a web-page or mail encounters. Lookup will pull valuable information on a zone file available on websites.
3) Airport Extreme
Being launched on July 21, 1999 from Steve Jobs himself, it is an extremely powerful wireless application for home, academy and small occupation. With Airport Utility one may easily add new or items on your Local Area Network or reconstruct existing equipment.
4) 3rd Party Utilities
Beside Mac's in-built utilities, there are several other utilities that are worth to be the part of your Mac.
Drive Defrag Software
Defragmenting a Mac HDD is not possible under OS Lion until and unless you have installed a third party software utility. Over a period of time when hard disk becomes fragmented and system takes much longer time to access any particular file or folder. Then it’s time for now to defrag the Mac hard drive before it becomes a serious problem.
Data Recovery Software
Having a data recovery Macintosh software is a prerequisite. Why not prepare ourselves with the ultimate solution for Macintosh data recovery, before a data loss makes ourselves feel regret about not having a solution before.
Speed Up Mac Tool
A new Mac may perform like a rock-star but with time and amount of data accumulated on the disk, it may become slumberous. To speed up Mac, one needs to have a proper speed up software installed which will clean the junk files from the partitions and will create more free space for the accessing operations.
The upper Mac utilities have been a part of my system and I have make full use of it to make my working more sophisticated and less prone to hazards.
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