OnyX: Not Your Average System Cleaner

You love your Mac right? Wish for a better system cleaner? Well with OnyX you get a system cleaner, and then some.

After taking OnyX for a test drive, I found that there are many cool features. In total there are eight menus; Parameters, Maintenance, Cleaning, Automation, Log FIles, Unix Utilities, Info, and Preferences. All of them have many sub menus, but we’ll just take a look at the main ones for now. Here’s a quick run down:

Parameters – Here you can change dock, dashboard, safari, login settings, and more. OnyX adds more features than in the normal menus of these applications. Among the features you get some new dock effects, you can speed up the loading times of safari and customize your login text.

Maintenance – Here you can mess around with the disk permissions, scripts, also optimize and reset OS X. I did have some problems on getting the disk list to load, but after some tinkering, I got it working.

Cleaning – This is where you can delete caches, history, temp files, and log files. This is one of the more used menus in OnyX.

Automation – It’s probably the most used menu in OnyX. As in the screenshot above, it lets you execute the most common tasks all in one menu. Got to love the simplicity.

Log Files – A really useful menu, here you can find and look at EVERY log file on your system, for every app, installation, and error, while even telling you the size of the log files. Although it can be a little tough to read, it can really come in handy for errors.

Unix Utilities; this menu shows you all the console commands and man pages. Man page are always great for me and these are very detailed, telling you what a command does, it’s usage, and variations.

Info; It’s just was it says, information about your system with many details, such as kernel version, Boot ROM ID and more.

So that concludes a short review on OnyX. Now some of you might be thinking, how much does it cost?, well that is one of the best parts. OnyX is 100% free, so give it a shot yourself.

Grab OnyX here.

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