Monday, 27 June 2011

10.6: Free up system resources using Automator

Snow Leopard only hintGiven the popularity of utility programs that let you free up computer resources, it is worth noting that we can get the same effect free of charge using built-in system tools. The simple trick behind utilities that free up computer resources is the purge command. Instead of using any of these apps, it is enough to fire up Terminal.app, type in 'purge' (no quotes) and press Enter.

This may be of course a bit cumbersome if we repeat this task often. In order to speed up the process and limit the procedure to a single click, we can use Automator to make a small app or a service to execute the 'purge' command.

Do do so we have to:
  • Open Automator and select 'Application' or 'Service' as our workflow.
  • Drag the 'Run Shell Script' action to our workflow from the Utilities section of the Actions Library.
  • Type in 'pu ...


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