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Mac Operating System is very complex, highly sophisticated and needs a little tuning here and there. There are logs to be deleted, hidden features to be opened, caches to be dumped and much more. It is not always the big software that makes the biggest difference on your computer; often it is the small utilities that enhance your computing experience. I have rounded up 10 most handy utilities to improve the basic functionality of your Mac OS in several ways.

BetterTouchTool

BetterTouchTool application helps you to customize gestures for your Magic Trackpad, Macbook Touchpad and Magic Mouse. It is free and easy to use Mac application that application or global specific shortcuts for nearly every gesture.

SMART Utility

It is a utility to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives. It is different from other disk utility, which is used to detect when a hard drive is having electrical or mechanical problems, and indicates when hard drive is failing. It has many built-in features and is the perfect tool for checking disk integrity.

TeamViewer

It connects your server or Mac desktop around the world within a few seconds. You can remote control other desktop as if you are sitting right in front of it. Just run the applications on both sides and connect even through firewalls.

MacTheRipper

MacTheRipper is made to backup DVDs you have legally purchased for your personal use. It removes the Macrovision protection, CSS protection and set the disc region code to ‘0’. It is also able to extract the data from improperly mastered or damaged DVDs. It is perfect tool for taking the backup of the DVDs.

Toast Titanium

It is the perfect CD/DVD burning solution for Mac. You can share, save and enjoy digital music, photos and movies on DVD and CD. You can burn large files across multiple discs. You can even compress and copy movies from DVD, and can add over 50 hours of music to an audio DVD. You can also create HD slideshows with background soundtracks, titles, motion effects and collages.

MacKeeper

It is not just an ordinary application. It is all-in-one solution for your Mac operating system, which combines a set of online services, drive clean-up utilities and standalone tools. With this application, you will never have to complain about privacy breaches, accidental file loss, slow system performance, lack of disk space, or any other Mac-related issues.

Dragoman

It converts archive, sound, music, photo and image files. It supports many popular formats as well as digital camera formats. You can even convert text documents to other formats.

MacBackup

It is the perfect backup utility for casual Mac users, who regularly use iTunes, iPhoto and other popular applications. It makes computer backup easily and can instantly scan and backup your documents, email settings, photos, movies and music folder. You can even drag and drop anything stored on your computer to quickly create a secure backup.

SD2 Fixer

This application is used to modify the resource forks of a file. Sometimes resource forks get corrupted or stripped off. If this happen, then SD2 fixe will remove that corrupted resource forks and places fresh new resource forks on the files with the parameter your specify.

DockReboot

It is a useful tool when Dock does not work anymore and you are not able to open any applications. So whenever your Dock gets stuck, just launch the application from your application folder and it will restart the Dock for you.