Fiplab Memory Clean
Memory Clean for Mac frees up inactive memory quickly.
One of my favorite types of app to play with is the menu bar utility. If you have been readying my reviews over the past few months, you will see a trend in menu bar utilities. Tonight, I bring you Memory Clean for Mac by Fiplab.
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Memory Clean is a free menu bar utility that shows your memory usage and then breaks down that usage into Active, Wired, Inactive, Free, Used and Total. So, why go to the trouble clear up your system’s memory? Well, when you use a memory intensive app, like most video games, video editing software or graphic design tools, memory gets allocated to the cache of that program. When you close the program, that memory is still tied up. When you use a program like Memory Clean, that lost memory is freed up for use again.
When I first installed the utility, I cleaned up the memory on my computer. To my surprise, Memory Clean freed up over a gig of memory. I have 8 GB total on my laptop. I decided to really put the app to the test. I opened several memory intensive apps including Photoshop, iTunes, iPhoto, Illustrator, InDesign and Pages. I quickly watched as my memory usage plummeted to 3.22 GB available. With all the apps still open, I used Memory Clean and saw it rise to 4.39 GB available and after closing the apps, it rose even more to 5.67 GB available.
I would recommend this to anyone who plays frequent games or uses memory intensive apps like the ones I mentioned. It could really increase your computer’s productivity and allow apps to run more smoothly.
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Conventional wisdom says you can never have enough RAM in your Mac. But how about making the most of the RAM you do have? This is the entire premise of Memory Clean 2.8 (Mac App Store link), Fiplabs’ free memory utility designed to purge inactive memory to help free it up for later use.
If your work involves software like Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Premiere, CAD programs and other high-end memory-intensive applications, you’ll appreciate reclaiming several hundred megabytes of RAM or more at a go.
Memory Clean runs in the background after you launch it, and a convenient menu bar interface shows how much RAM is available at any given time. Clicking on the menu bar opens the application and allows the memory to be purged on a whim. Right-click or control-click the menu bar interface or press Command-, to pull up a Preferences menu and configure settings as display options, application visibility in OS X, and when to automatically clean out the memory if RAM drops below a specified threshold level.
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During testing, Memory Clean held its own, freeing up over 700MB of RAM after using applications such as Microsoft Word, iMovie, Left 4 Dead 2, and Adobe Photoshop CS6. To activate a memory purge, open Memory Clean, click Clean Memory and allow your Mac 30 to 60 seconds to free what RAM it can.
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Right-clicking Memory Clean on the menu bar to open its preference settings isn’t an intuitive function and this could stand to be addressed in short order. Still, once you know about the function, the issue becomes moot.
Memory Clean is free, simple, effective and it does what it purports to do very well and with little hassle or addition to OS X’s overall system load. It’s nice to get several hundred megabytes of usable RAM back with a few mouse clicks.
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