I was inspecting the total size consumed by Applications in my Mac using Disk Inventory . I came to know that Mail app is actually taking lot of space in the Hard Drive as compared to my usual Mail applications in Windows platform. Precisely Apple default Mail application is approx 290MB in size . I inspected inside the Mail app to know what exactly is it thats taking so much of space and knew that there are some unused localization folders ( i guess language specific folders ) . I realised that i am only going to use English as language in my Mac so i thought i could delete all other Language specific folders except “English.lproj” . After deleting all those i saw no difference in the Mail app , theoretically which is as expected . Now my Mail.app size is just 27 MB and have faced no Problem and assume i wont get any problem as long as my Mac language is set to English. To summarize the tip Continue reading »

This is one of the thing which bugs me in Apple Mac OS X . In windows i do closing of programs directly from the windows task bar at the bottom . When windows are grouped I even can close all the window groups at once from the right mouse click . There is no such feature in Mac OS X . Mac needs more than one click to do that close function for minimized program ( application ) window . And every minimized window needs individual treatment to close them . In Mac right clicking on the minimized application windows just shows one option to open that window . This single option is as good as maximize menu in windows right click on windows task bar. One of the several reason windows is better than Mac .