OnyX 1.9.0 for Leopard Released

I am a big fan of OnyX. If anyone in my circle is having problems with their computer, I always run this app. It allows me to run various tweaks, maintenance scripts, and log cleaning functions that otherwise would not be run. Imagine OnyX being the alternate fuse box of your Mac (the primary one would be a shut-down or restart process).

OnyX, for the uninitiated, is an application that does many things pertaining to optimizing your system, including doing disk verifications and permission repairs, running system cleaning and optimizing scripts, clearing out various caches, cookies, and bookmarks.

My experience with this version has not matched my previous experiences. 1.9.0 seems to be a bit slow at first, but by default, it verifies disk statuses. You can disable this in the preferences pane. This usually speeds up the start-up time.

January 1st, 2008 marks the release of OnyX 1.9.0 for Leopard. For a more thorough rundown read our review of OnyX here.

This new release is the first version of OnyX for Leopard, and includes various bug fixes, including:

• New version totally rewritten
• Enable/disable Journaling function
• Enable/disable iChat Data Detectors function
• Hide the icon of Spotlight in the menu bar function
• Resetting the Sidebar of Finder windows function
• Deleting the Conversations log of instant messaging

You can download the new version here, but if you don’t have Leopard yet, versions for Tiger (10.4), Panther (10.3), and Jaguar (10.2), are still available.