Maintain Your Mac Regularly to Keep it at Top Performance

“Should I maintain my Mac in the daily use and how to do that?” The answer is absolutely YES. It is highly suggested that every Mac user should maintain the Mac computer in order to avoid any potential problems occurred in the Mac OS X system. Otherwise, you would probably get various threats, error messages and other technology issues on the Mac. It is necessary for you take good care of the Mac regularly and furthermore you had better fall into nice habits when surfing the Internet with the machine. Here comes the tutorials written by expert who is the columnist from MacUtility.com about how to resolve the common Mac problems and how to keep the computer healthy in the daily life. Now let’s find out what kind of problems users might encounter on the Mac.

You Might Get Internet Threats on Your Mac

There are different kinds of Internet threats created by hijackers for the purpose of stealing user’s private information, financial data and sensitive files. Mac OS X system has become one of the targets since a couple of years ago. As we know that Mac system is no more the safest operating system on the earth. An increased number of Mac users have impaired by the viruses such as Trojan, browser redirect virus, spyware and other unknown malware. Lots of users lost their money, personal info then they have to call for the police to help them figure out the problems but most of cases could not be resolved as wished. It is really hard to trace and find out the evidence of the criminal activities. Most of the virus would dupe users into typing their passwords, bank account info so that the virus publishers are able to spy on everything they wanted. You had better install some kind of security software for your Mac to fight against any threat hidden in the system. Run the antivirus program to scan hard disks individually and every file you receive from other people or the attachments in the email. This can help you reduce the rate of attacking by the hijackers. 

You Might Get Error Codes on Your Mac

Half percent of Mac users must have experience of getting error codes and messages whenever they are online or offline. The annoyed messages would pop up suddenly on the computer screen asking users to redress some conflicts and problems they had made previously. However, all the users who receive error messages have no idea about how to handle it out correctly. To avoid the error codes, you can ask help for Mac optimization software to detect out any latent problems and terminate them in the very beginning. If you like to install and uninstall applications on your Mac frequently, you should assure that the applications have been completely removed without any associated files left on the system otherwise you probably will get the warning error message in some day. To entirely delete the the software from your Mac, do not forget to clean up the leftovers in these three folders:  /Library/Preferences/, /Library/Application Support/ /Library/Caches/. If you feel hard to reach the correct location, you can visit the detailed Mac apps removal instructions from here: http://www.macutility.com/mac-apps.html You will the most of the apps removal tutorials at this website and even the most latest software.       

Does Your Mac Annoyed By Adware And Malware?

It is accepted that Macintosh computer is a well-experienced and safe operating system, but it is also inevitable that the Mac also face a hot issue as many other OS: virus infection. And among the various types of viruses, adware and malware are two popular and wide-spread infections on the Mac computer. If you are a newbie or common users of Mac, you may need more information and knowledge about these two kinds of threats on the computer.

What are Adware and Malware?

Adware, contains the browser hijackers and potentially unwanted programs, it is a kind of program that mainly used to create annoying ads on the computer, and its final target is persuading the user to buy the application it promoted on the ads, and some of them are even attempting to invite some other viruses to the computer. Once the user get an adware on the Mac, numerous advertisements will bombard the screen all the time.

Malware is a kind of malicious applications that aims at cheating you to buy the useless program, and the app is even harm for the computer system, damage your computer's security system.

Problems will be caused by Adware and Malware

Mac itself has its own integrated protection techniques to against the virus infection, but it cannot 100% protect the computer from malicious viruses, especially when the adware and malware usually come to the Mac computer from the mistake download of users. So, you should pay more attention when you want to download something online, and make sure you don't download the wrong one or bundle with other apps on the Mac. If you are unluckily installed such a rogueware on your Mac, you will meet these problems on the PC:  

General websites cannot be opened successfully and usually replace by the sites related to the adware or malware

Installed applications cannot be used smoothly as usual

Advertisements display on the computer contstantly

New apps cannot be downloaded and installed

Computer security system gets corrupted

More and more problems happen on the computer. 

Importance Of Removing Security Software Completely On Mac OS X

Considering those dangerous and tricky viruses online, it has been very common and popular for people installing a good antivirus program, and many people would like have such a security software even though the Mac computer is relatively safer than other kinds of computer operating system. In this situation, people often need to uninstall the security program when the one they are correctly using is not so good, or the app just need to be removed for some reasons, but if the security app cannot be removed so effectively and completely on your Mac, many troubles and issues will come out...

Possible reasons to uninstall security software

The app does not work as well as you expect

Program itself encounters an error and stop working on the computer

Need to remove the program and install it again on Mac

Don't want to use this program anymore 

Computer encounters an error and affect the security software's performance

Bad influences when antivirus app cannot be removed well

Doing not uninstall security software well will create more complicated and troublesome issues on the computer system than any other kind of application

The antivirus app itself cannot be installed again on the computer

Other antivirus program also cannot be installed for the app conflict issue

Degrade of the computer security situations

The computer system will not be protected effectively with security application

So, don't undervalue the impacts of unsuccessful antivirus app removal on the Mac OS X, you will be suffered from many other issues and also cannot protect your Mac from viruses well. In order to prevent these problems on your Mac, you should take a good and effective removing method when need to uninstall an antivirus program from the computer. 

Easy Tips to Remove Animal Gods on Mac, 2017 Professional Guides

Do you have the confusion in your mind that how to remove Animal Gods completely on the Mac. If so, you should read the best Animal Gods removal guides of 2017 very carefully to help you accomplish the removing correctly. By following the instruction, you will easily have the Animal Gods uninstalled from your Mac OS X manually. It doesn’t matter that if you are not familiar with the operating system. Just finish every step introduced in this article. Of course, if you would like to uninstall other Mac apps, please visit here directly to get more information. 

Animal Gods is a kind of famous game which was published by “Still Games”. Users can go to the Steam to download and purchase the registration version of it at price of £6.99. A great deal of players like to play Animal Gods because of its interesting and play-ability. The number of Animal Gods users has grow up continually in these years and this game was regarded as one of the Top Mac games by MacUtility.com.

However, for some reasons, some players need to remove Animal Gods from their Macs. Here we don’t go to talk about the reasons of removing but just the methods that how to uninstall the application quickly and entirely.Packaged applications are easy to achieve complete removal because all the associated files and folders are included in the same file, and you can drag the icon of it to the trash without hesitation to reach your goal without hesitation. Here are the details you need to cover.

Step 1: Right click the icon of the application and then click “Show Package Contents” to make sure whether it is a packaged application or not.

 Step2: When you are sure that the application you wanna remove is a packaged one, hold the icon and drag it to the Trash.

 Step3: Head to the Trash, make a single click on the Trash icon and then press keyboard shortcuts Shift+Del, or alternatively, right click the trash icon and select “Secure Empty Trash”, and then choose“Empty Trash” on the confirmation pop-up box.

Detailed Instructions to Uninstall Animal Gods on Mac

Step 1: quit the process of Alfred. Launch your Activity Monitor, change the filter into “All process”, find out Alfred and click on it, and then click “Quit Process”. Sometimes, the process of Animal Gods can be frozen, if so, you could pressCommand+Option+Esc to enter the Activity Monitor interface, click the Animal Gods icon, click “Force Quit” and then make confirmation in the pup-up dialogue box to end the main process of Animal Gods.

 Step 2: look for Animal Gods under the Applications menu in Finder, click and hold the icon and then drag it to the Trash.

 Step 3: Go back to Finder and head to the Go menu,click on Go, and then key pressing the Option Key after you see the pull-down list and then select Library in the pull-down list.

 Step 4: Search for three folders under Library, and then move all files in the folders to the Trash respectively. Specifically, search out the folders /Library/Applications Support/, /Library/Preferences/, and the folder /Library/Caches/, delete all files in these folders respectively.

In details, this step contains three minor steps. Set one of the minor steps as an example, you need to search for the /Library/Application Support/, open it and move all the files in it to the Trash by right clicking and then “Move to Trash”, when the job was finished, you need to go back to perform the similar work to trash other files stored in the /Library/Preferences/ and the /Library/Caches/ folders respectively.

Step 5：Empty Trash, the last step to uninstall Animal Gods manually. Right click on the Trash icon and then select “Secure Empty Trash”. You can proceed this function on the condition that you won’t want Animal Gods any more and make sure that there are no mistakenly-deleted files.

It is very necessary for you to delete all of the files of Animal Gods in /Library/Applications, /Library/Preferences/, and the folder /Library/Caches/. 

If you leave the files there, you will probably make your Mac system run slower than ever. In some of the cases, users would receive error messages popping up suddenly on the screen when trying to install the latest version of Animal Gods. Therefore, removing the leftovers is a very important step in the whole removal procedure. Never forget to finish this after you empty the Trash.

  

Private protection - pay attention to the spyware on your Mac

Everybody hates the computer viruses, they would do everything they could to destroy the computer, like damage file/programs, mess the system, and steal your money, among which there is such a kind of tricky virus that would monitor you at the background, which is the spyware.

Spyware is a type of malicious application that usually installed on the computer without people's knowing, and then record everything you do with the machine, such as the keylogger, the browsing history, and the program you launch. It will seriously invade your private and make you to be totally exposed on the computer. And it cannot be more serious rather then have no privacy online.

How does the spyware infect a Mac computer? Although the smart Mac OS X has a strong and integrated security defender inside, it does not mean that the computer will be safe forever and would not be attacked by viruses. In additional, the spyware also can be installed manually by someone else, like your parents, boss and some other guys. Generally, a spyware on Mac has the following features:

Installed on your Mac without your knowing and consent
Running at the background and not easy to be found
Bundled with some other apps or viruses and sneak to the computer
Refuse to be removed by the user Confidential information like banking account, important accounts' passwork and business documents are easily stolen
The user have no privacy on the computer.

In order not to be the monitor target of spyware, you should enhance your Mac's security via taking some effective measures like installing a professional antivirus program, and totally avoid such kind of threat on your PC.

Additional sources for Mac security articles: http://macutility.livejournal.com/ 

Easy Tips to Remove Animal Gods on Mac, 2017 Professional Guides

Do you have the confusion in your mind that how to remove Animal Gods completely on the Mac. If so, you should read the best Animal Gods removal guides of 2017 very carefully to help you accomplish the removing correctly. By following the instruction, you will easily have the Animal Gods uninstalled from your Mac OS X manually. It doesn’t matter that if you are not familiar with the operating system. Just finish every step introduced in this article.

Animal Gods is a kind of famous game which was published by “Still Games”. Users can go to the Steam to download and purchase the registration version of it at price of £6.99. A great deal of players like to play Animal Gods because of its interesting and play-ability. The number of Animal Gods users has grow up continually in these years and this game was regarded as one of the Top Mac games by MacUtility.com.

Requirement of System Environment

OS: OS X Yosemite

Processor: Dual-core Intel Core i5 processor

Memory: 4 GB RAM

Graphics: Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000

Storage: 600 MB available space

Sound Card: Intel(R) Display Audio   

However, for some reasons, some players need to remove Animal Gods from their Macs. Here we don’t go to talk about the reasons of removing but just the methods that how to uninstall the application quickly and entirely.

Packaged applications are easy to achieve complete removal because all the associated files and folders are included in the same file, and you can drag the icon of it to the trash without hesitation to reach your goal without hesitation. Here are the details you need to cover.

Step 1: Right click the icon of the application and then click “Show Package Contents” to make sure whether it is a packaged application or not.

 Step2: When you are sure that the application you wanna remove is a packaged one, hold the icon and drag it to the Trash.

 Step3: Head to the Trash, make a single click on the Trash icon and then press keyboard shortcuts Shift+Del, or alternatively, right click the trash icon and select “Secure Empty Trash”, and then choose“Empty Trash” on the confirmation pop-up box.

<h2>Detailed Instructions to Uninstall Animal Gods on Mac</h2>

Step 1: quit the process of Alfred. Launch your Activity Monitor, change the filter into “All process”, find out Alfred and click on it, and then click “Quit Process”. Sometimes, the process of Animal Gods can be frozen, if so, you could pressCommand+Option+Esc to enter the Activity Monitor interface, click the Animal Gods icon, click “Force Quit” and then make confirmation in the pup-up dialogue box to end the main process of Animal Gods.

 Step 2: look for Animal Gods under the Applications menu in Finder, click and hold the icon and then drag it to the Trash.

 Step 3: Go back to Finder and head to the Go menu,click on Go, and then key pressing the Option Key after you see the pull-down list and then select Library in the pull-down list.

 Step 4: Search for three folders under Library, and then move all files in the folders to the Trash respectively. Specifically, search out the folders /Library/Applications Support/, /Library/Preferences/, and the folder /Library/Caches/, delete all files in these folders respectively.

In details, this step contains three minor steps. Set one of the minor steps as an example, you need to search for the /Library/Application Support/, open it and move all the files in it to the Trash by right clicking and then “Move to Trash”, when the job was finished, you need to go back to perform the similar work to trash other files stored in the /Library/Preferences/ and the /Library/Caches/ folders respectively.

Step 5：Empty Trash, the last step to uninstall Animal Gods manually. Right click on the Trash icon and then select “Secure Empty Trash”. You can proceed this function on the condition that you won’t want Animal Gods any more and make sure that there are no mistakenly-deleted files.

It is very necessary for you to delete all of the files of Animal Gods in /Library/Applications, /Library/Preferences/, and the folder /Library/Caches/. 

If you leave the files there, you will probably make your Mac system run slower than ever. In some of the cases, users would receive error messages popping up suddenly on the screen when trying to install the latest version of Animal Gods. Therefore, removing the leftovers is a very important step in the whole removal procedure. Never forget to finish this after you empty the Trash. 

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Uninstall Hammer for Mac, 2017 Tips to Remove Hammer Utility

Uninstall Hammer for Mac, 2017 Tips to Remove Hammer Utility

Recently, I have received some email from my blog subscribers asking for help to remove Hammer on their Macs. They knew the traditional way to uninstall applications with the Trash function in the Mac OS X system. However, it didn’t work when they tried to uninstall Hammer from the Macs. It doesn’t mean the built-in uninstaller could not remove it but the problem was that if they removed it with the simple method, they failed to install the latest version of Hammer later. They kept receiving error messages because of the application’s leftovers left on the computer. No one has the idea about how to find out the hidden useless files and completely clean up the rubbish. Today I will show  you guys who also have the demands of removing Hammer from the Mac OS X.Read Hammer is developed by Hammer Technology since 2010. With this utility, designers can easily build out types of projects including JavaScript apps, HTML sits &  template. 

Moreover, it has many great features to improve workflow like CSS. This website generator software has already won well reputation in the past years and help users  work out their projects more effectively. I have to admit that Hammer for Mac is wonderful and the most popular Mac development apps on the earth. You can find lots of testimonial and professional reviews on the whole Internet. If you want to have a try for "Hammer for Mac", you can visit its official website to download the latest version of it.

Okay, we have learned some basic info of Hammer and we are going to discuss the main topic today about how to remove the outdated version of  Hammer from the Mac OS X system.  

You can just follow the removal guides of 2017 from the Mac expert who is also the contributor of MacUtility.com.

Step1: Find out Hammer in Finder
Step2: Drag the icon of Hammer and throw it into the Trash, or you can also right click the Hammer icon and then select “Move to Trash“
Step3: Head for Finder, press Option key, click Go in the menu and then choose “Library” in the hold-down list.
Step 4: Search for folder /Library/ System/ Support/ and /Library/ Preferences/ folder under Library,select all files related to Hammer, right click your mouse and then choose “Move to Trash“
Step 5：Right click the icon of Trash, select “ Secure Empty Trash“

When you go through all these three steps, some may think that you have successfully removed Hammer on your Mac and be happy with the result. However, there are also accidents happen to some of you. Some people said that he could not uninstall Hammer or even could not delete the icon of Hammer by dragging the icon to the Trash. Or Mac always shows that you don’t have the permission to delete the application.

Have you got the key point? YES,  “Step 4” is the most important factor of this whole removing procedure. Almost 99% of the Mac users don’t know that they should delete the fake files in those folders. That is the real reason why errors or problems occurred. If you still have some apps which you would like to uninstall completely on your Mac like “Hammer”, you can visit here to find more Mac development apps and read the removal articles carefully. From there, you will learn the details of tutorials step by step.