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Stellar unveils the release of a minor update to its best file management application for Mac OS X, Stellar Smart Finder v1.0.0.5. The new release integrates duplicate finder functionality into the software and introduces some GUI changes to allow for easy and fast file browsing. These changes enhance the existing capabilities of the software to make it more robust OS X Finder tool.

Is your Mac behaving like an annoyed child who is taking too much time in following your instructions? Well, if yes, then do not panic as you are not the only one who is facing such issue. Almost all Mac users face similar behavior as their Mac gets old. However, if they follow certain tips, then they can easily get back the lost performance of their Mac.

Stellar releases its first safety-oriented hard disk monitoring software for Mac users; ‘Stellar Drive Monitor‘. The software incorporates a slew of features committed to warn you in time about the possible disk failures that could wipe away your years’ worth of precious information. The competent tool supports continuous disk I/O error monitoring, temperature measurements, and SMART status. 

If you have just made a switch from PC to Mac, then you might be interested in applying the same Windows tweaks here. But oftentimes, those things don’t work out the same way on your Mac computer. A typical example of this is OS X drive defragmentation. For the most part, Macs do not need defragmentation, claims Apple. However, there are always ‘some’ strings attached to it. For the same reason, there has been a constant argument over whether defragmentation is good for Mac.

As a Mac user, you might be having a quest for tools that can help keep your Mac in top form. If you have a slew of problems on your Mac pertaining to partition management, backups, directory corruption, performance, and more, then it is mandatory on your part to carry out some necessary troubleshooting and maintenance procedures. Following are the 12 essential Mac utilities to help you get the desired job done with minimal effort.

Let us walk you through some of the useful tools:

Having been developed many advanced data recovery applications and other utilities to optimize a Mac OS X performance, Stellar fulfills the need of professional utilities that can prove to be of huge importance in any point of time. Following are the list of such technical utilities that joins in the list of available professional Mac utilities.

An easy way out of disk corruption and similar problems on your Mac is maintenance. There are a plenty of things that can affect your OS X drive. In a vast majority of cases, the directory structure of your startup disk gets corrupt. As a consequence, you may receive errors at the startup as shown below:

‘An error occurred during the file system check’

Or

‘inode Error’

SSD drives are superior to traditional hard drives with relatively faster data transfer and access speed. SSDs are more reliable and are less prone to damage than conventional hard drives but all these advantages adds few more dollars ($$) to its cost. Yes, SSDs are way costly than traditional drives which might be the straight reason of not opting the solid state drives for many Mac users. The reason why SSDs have an edge over other hard drives is the use of semi-conductor chips instead of magnetic media which also make SSDs to consume less power.

Stellar has made a big move aiming at further easing the task of maintenance for a Mac user. It has launched its upgraded Drive ToolBox for Mac. The new software intends to build on the existing capabilities of its predecessor.  A range of UI enhancements have been included to make each module more comprehensible than before.