Kevin writes:

I have a iBook G4 — 1.33 GHz — 512 MB RAM. It’s run­ning really slow. Do you have any “quick fixes”? I was look­ing on the inter­net and saw that “anacron” was sug­gested. Do you guys have any sug­ges­tions. I don’t really want to buy a new mac (yet) so any sug­ges­tions would be appre­ci­ated. thanks.

There’s two areas you can look at when try­ing to speed up a com­puter: hard­ware or soft­ware. If your Mac is run­ning Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) or ear­lier, then some­thing like Anacron or Onyx (my per­sonal favorite) work really well for clean­ing up your machine. If your com­puter is run­ning Mac OS 10.5 or later, then you don’t really need these pro­grams (at least for the rea­sons that they’re usu­ally recommended).

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For those of you that have a white mac­book and have had it for any length of time will notice the dis­col­oration of the palm rests. What once was a bright clean white mac­book as turned to a rather ugly look­ing colour. This can be an issue when you are show­ing off your amaz­ing Mac­book to your PC using friends. If you are like me you tried to use a vari­ety of clean­ers, windex, etc to clean it, all of which did noth­ing to solve the prob­lem. One of the best solu­tions is to go pick up a MR.CLEAN Magic Eraser. You will want to turn off the com­puter when you do this. Then apply the Damp Magic Eraser to the affected areas and wipe clean with a sec­ond cloth so as to remove the chem­i­cals and to dry it off. This should do the trick. Check out this before and after shot.