Cat Nap (vorpalbunny) Mac OS
To make it easier to launch Devastro and Type Raiders on modern Mac OS X systems, I have signed the app bundles with my Mac developer certificate.
When you first launch them you should now get this:
instead of this:
You could still work around that latter dialog by ctrl-clicking and choosing Open or changing your system preferences to run any app without asking, but this seems nicer.
To sign the app bundles I used the following commands:
OS X internally has a lot of optimisations like App Nap which help to keep background apps' effect on system resources to a minimum: You don’t have to quit apps once you’re done working in them — OS X allows you to work with several apps open at once.
Thanks to Andy Brice for his useful article about signing Mac apps manually.
OS left eye (oculus sinister) OU both eyes (oculus uterque) PAM potential acuity meter PAS peripheral Anterior Synechiae p.c. After meal PD prism diopter or pupillary distance PDR proliferative diabetic retinopathy PED pigmentary epithelial detachment PH pinhole visual acuity PERRLA pupils equal, round and reactive to light. The nap seems to be over, so I try to get out of bed — but I can’t move anything. Something is wrong. I’m groggy, and feel extremely heavy. My left arm won’t move. A woman comes over and I ask her to help me, reaching up weakly with my right arm. I black out or fall back to sleep. OS X 10.9 Mavericks The first OS X release to break from the cat names and take its name from a location in California, Mavericks shipped in October 2013 for free. This version of Mac OS X includes several improvements designed to extend battery life for notebook users, including App Nap, compressed memory and timer coalescing.
Think of your Mac like your own brain. The more you’re worrying about, thinking about, and working on solving – the slower you’ll be to respond (and the more annoyed you’ll be) when someone asks you to do something else RIGHT NOW. 😉
Below are five options to make the beach ball go away. (Update Nov 21st 2018: New Macinhome YouTube video “why is my Mac so slow?! The top 12 reasons and fixes!” is live!)
1. Quit some apps.
Hold command and press tab a few times to see which apps are open, and switch between them. When you land on one you want to quit, keep holding command and press q. If you have an unfinished document, don’t worry. It’ll warn you and ask you to save before quitting it.
Imagine if we could do that with our worries and stresses. Just hit command-q! Ahhhhh. Relief!
2. Look in Activity Monitor.
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Press command-spacebar to open Spotlight and type “Activity”. Press return to launch Activity Monitor. Look for anything that is using more than 10% of the CPU; that MAY be your culprit. If you know what it is and you don’t need it anymore, quit it. If you don’t know what it is, call us for help or put on your daredevil mask, hit Google, and get adventurous.
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3. Restart.
This sounds cliché and very obvious but many people run their Mac for days without restarting. I recommend restarting every 2-3 days for most people or daily if you are doing a lot of multi-tasking with big apps. It’s like a cat nap for your Mac. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes if you use your Mac a lot, and some things don’t stop until you restart.
4. Close browser tabs.
If you have Safari and Chrome open with a lot of tabs, that can slow things down a lot. Close any tabs you aren’t using anymore with command-w. Keep your Mac and your apps running lean.
5. Install RAM or an SSD.
If all else fails you can find out what it will take to upgrade your Mac hardware with more memory (RAM) or a much faster SSD hard drive (solid state drive, also known as flash storage). Here’s a video example of the speed comparison, with creepy music. Two identical Macs; one with the regular hard drive and one with the SSD installed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8aFwh3dT_E
If you want help just reach out.