Does anyone have tips on speeding up my mac osx?

I have had it since 2009 and I know I need to get an external hard drive to back it up. In the meantime though, is there anyway I can "reformat" or filter out the junk?

Well, you do want a backup ASAP, you can't really format without losing everything you have now, but...
See if the Disk is issuing any S.M.A.R.T errors in Disk Utility...
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH7029
Open Activity Monitor in Applications>Utilities, select All Processes & sort on CPU%, any indications there?
How much free RAM & free Disk space do you have also, click on the Memory & Disk Usage Tabs.
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages when this happens.
In the Memory tab of Activity Monitor, are there a lot of Pageouts?

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http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/
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Does anyone have ASR 2.2.5 for mac os 9?

im looking for this ancient version of Apple Software Restore for use with mac os 9.2.2
i use alot of vintage software and i have been having some type of hard drive corruption issue
and i need to make a backup of my system so that i can restore it in the event that the filesystem becomes corrupted again
untill i figure out which application is causing this error
the only way i can deal with it is to clone my drive and restore it
but i dont want to use any mac os x software
ASR has a limit of 2GB but the later version has a filesize limit of 4GB which would probably be enough
whereas 2GB is not...
please im desperate for this app.. i cant find it anywhere
if u know any mac systems admin guys that were managing large amounts of g3/g4 computers
they would probably have this...
fingers crossed that someone can help me find this hard to find updated version of this app
versions i have so far:
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v2.1.2 (included in 'automate asr 1.0' app found on macupdate)
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"Adobe Reader Expected a Dict Object Error." Does Anyone Have a Solution?

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hi there,
i am currenty using iWeb to publish a site, mainly of pictures. i am most likely going to punlishing via my .mac trial account. does anyone have any sites they've published from iWeb using either a .mac account or uploading to a different host? if you can post the URL of the site, it would be a great help so i can see how they turn out, the more the better...
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MacBook2,1 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Here are a couple...
The first is a standard Iweb site with a littler added slideshow coding to make it a little better than the normal Mac offering.
http://www.dougbarberphotography.com/Welcome.html
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G% 1.8 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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Message Edited by drewhy on 25-Aug-2008 07:16 PM

I work in telecommunications, so I often get to test the different stuff that is on the market, and I picked the N82 because it was proving to be the most stable and reliable of Nokia's smartphones. Nokia has the most extensive range of any of the big manufacturers, and whatever you may read against Nokia from some less-experienced users on this forum, reliability and updates are no picnic on other companies' smartphones (and here it is important to distinguish between a normal GSM phone and a smartphone - the latter has a limited OS that runs preinstalled apps plus a few JAVA apps; whereas a smartphone is much closer to a computer than a mere phone.
Aside from the basics of making and receiving calls and messages, I use a lot the camera, music/video players, mobile internet and sat-nav.
I have taken some fantastic photos with the camera, ignore the 5MP - this is just a technicality, most cameraphones can't begin to compete with a standard digital camera of similar specs. I have found the picture quality of this phone sharp with excellent colour quality, even in poor light which is one area where most cameraphones (inlcuding my old SE K800i) fall down. One downside is that the shutter speed is slow in most modes - I have some brilliant shots of the Red Arrows' smoke trails from the recent Sanicole airshow at Hechtel, but the planes themselves proved pretty elusive, so is lacks a bit when taking action shots.
The video quality of the camera is also good, it produces excellent VGA-quality video (which is good enough to watch through the TV with the provided cable), though sound reproduction could perhaps be a little better.
The phone plays MP4 movies vey well, and music playback is also good - the sound from the stereo speakers is reasonable for such a device, and the headphones produce good sound (there are lots of people moaning with all modern phones that volume levels are not high enough, but in twenty years time they'll be thanking today's phones for not deafening them). The only catch is that the music player isn't always very versatile to use. I have a language course CD copied onto my memory card which I tend to access through File Manager. Having said that, I have yet to encounter any phone with a really good music player; they are designed to play music whilst you're mobile, they don't seem to imagine that you might be on a work break, in a hotel or just relaxing in in the garden and so be in a position to take more personal control over your music.
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