Bloat Wear

I download a crap ton of apps, demo software, beta stuff etc.  After quite sometime, my machine felt a bit sluggish and buggy.  I lost a lot of storage space to junk files installed by these apps even after removing the apps.  During my time as an IT student I also had several service apps running like MAMP, Webmin, Sql Stuff, Apache, Netbeans, Wireshark, just a crap ton of IT tools that I really wasn’t using.  Deleting these icons from you application folder does remove the application, but does not delete all files associated with the application.  I guess Apple wants to keep the idea that removing software is drag and drop, and yea kind of it is, but it is not the most graceful, clean way to perform an application removal.  If you want to maintain your Mac environment, I suggest downloading an application uninstaller.  I still do not understand why Apple hasn’t built this functionality into their OS.  There are several uninstallers you can find out there on the interwebs.  The that stood out the most for me was AppCleaner.  Free, simple and does what I need it to do.

Needed A Clean Slate

I had upgraded to Snow Leopard from Tiger, which I hated from the beginning.  I hate upgrading, its so much cleaner to do a fresh install.  For a long time, I have been sporting my Mac knowing I had remnants of my older system just hang around in the back. So I decided to clean install Snow Leopard, and in the excitement of a “fresh” system, I thought there was no better time than now to try out Lion.

So far, its not so bad.  Few things I didn’t like, but  nothing I couldn’t live with out.  There was however a very annoying default setting that I needed to address IMMEDIATELY!

Pet Peeve

So yea, I don’t understand why this setting was disabled by default.  After installing Lion I was no longer able to double+click an app menu bar to minimize.  I figured by now this would be a normal, standard function of the OS.  So how did I get this functionality back? Well, At first I went to the Mouse Configuration Pane in System Preferences.  Totally was not there, makes no sense why this option would not exist in the mouse section.

After some searching around, I discovered the option tucked away in the General Pane in System Preferences at the bottom.