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Speed up your Mac by removing files from the Desktop - A family member owns a Mac, and he was complaining it was getting slow - especially the Desktop. He had a lot of files on the Desktop, but none of them were visible on the Desktop itself, but only in a Finder window displaying the contents of the Desktop. The Desktop only showed two icons: the main hard disk, and a Time Machine hard disk. The Desktop itself was very slow, and often displayed a beachball. However, when I looked in the Desktop folder, there were more than 2,700 image files. When I removed the image files from the Desktop folder, everything went back to normal. So, don't over-clutter your Desktop, as it might slow down your Mac and even hide files. [kirkmc adds: This isn't new, and there have been a couple of hints about this in the past; the only ones I can find were in 2005 and again ... [MacOSXHints.com]



Apple reportedly fine-tuning ‘iTV,’ combining TV and the Web - Steve Jobs’ last gadget could be on sale as soon as this summer... [Mac News]



A rare inside look inside Apple Retail and the company’s ‘Spot-the-Shopper’ technology - A Black Friday visit to the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Calif., offered a glimpse... [Mac News]



Thurrott reviews Apple iCloud: ‘Best consumer-oriented cloud computing service I’ve ever seen’ - As it has so often in the past, Apple is now showing the rest of the industry... [Mac News]

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