Interesting Mac OX Tweaks

My laptop is almost four years old and has been acting it lately. So I have been searching for different tweaks to speed it up. So as a first step I recently wiped my laptop. This time I did not use File Vault, which has dramatically increased the disk access speeds (Sorry no numbers).

Verbose booting

% sudo nvram boot-args="-v"

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Prevent .DS_Store on networked drives

% defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

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get rid of the 3d dock

% defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

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disable dashboard

% defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES; killall Dock

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safari debug menu

% defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

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I found a ton more on OSXNotes.com, check it out there are some really interesting changes that can be made.