Mac : Aperture 3 speed increase

Since the upgrade from Aperture 2 to 3, I was struggling with a slow and often hanging system. The moment Aperture was turned on, it was as if the entire system would go into a momentarily lapse and then sort of freeze. I tried many things. The first was – as recommended by most website – to turn off the faces feature by removing the check from Aperture -> Preferences -> General – Enable Faces . While that stopped it from searching through my entire photo collection for faces, it still didn’t resolve the issue of overall system slowness. More searches lead me to various other discussions and after trying several things, this is what has finally made Aperture work happily on my Macbook Pro : I deleted all the files in : Hard...

Mac : How to hide finder menu bar

On Mac’s snow leopard (or most other OS X versions), the finder menu bar on top of the screen is fixed and can’t be hidden. This is not a flaw or shortcoming, its been designed that ways because the finder menu bar turns into an open application’s menu bar so in most cases it is required. However, there are some applications like Firefox or Apple Mail where I really don’t need the menu bar. Removing the menu bar in such applications actual gives me valuable screen real estate that I like to use. I’ve found a cool way to customise applications on the mac so that finder menu bar remains hidden while those applications are being used.  It works perfectly, the bar appears when the mouse pointer is moved to the top edge of the screen and...