Sorry, totally forgot about Silverkeeper, thanks! Still think the Deja Vu interface and implementation is nicer, but if you havn't got the cash then go for Silverkeeper for sure :-)
it just generally seems a lot faster to me, because before switching from, say, GoLive CS2 to Photoshop CS2 could sometimes take 10 seconds , whereas having them on seperate desktops and simply switching desktops is instantaneous.
Feels like a brand new machine to me!
Power down the mac completely. Then Press the power button and hold down APPLE-S
When the text stops scrolling type fsck -f and then press enter
Wait for the process to finish (it will say something about root#) and then type reboot and hit enter.
Then report back and tell if it helped or not...
Deja Vu is a good bet... I use it to backup my home folder nightly, applications weekly and the entire drive monthly.
It's not free, but it is a great graphical front-end and scheduler to psync. It's also a lot easier to use than psync and cron scripts.
Here's a couple of screenie's :-)
Over the last few days, I've been playing around with Linux-like virtual desktops. Apart from being useful, I also found that using these types of applications, with only one or two applications open per desktop has sped up my mac by a BIG amount. It's made iPhoto fly when it used to crawl, and...