For Mac’s OS X, Atomic Bird’s little application called Macaroni takes care of cleaning up often murky Unix databases and provides regular maintenance procedures for the operating system. But an even better small system utility application s Cocktail, which allows one to do all the above plus cutomize and optimize the system, remove crapped-out files, and change network settings.
What’s interesting about these utilities is that a very smart couple of technologists put intuitive, useful interfaces on what are critical, command-line tasks to keep an open system running smoothly; there’s something to be said about button-pushing.
I’m sorry if this is boring.