HomeFusion has gotten SLOW. How to fix?

For the past week, my HomeFusion service has gotten very slow. Every speed test is below 1 Mbps up and down.
I've disconnected and powered down all devices but one. Also tried restarting the router and cantenna. Makes no difference.
Any ideas? I'm close to canceling.

Go step by step and test.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10798
Start up in Safe Mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212
Repair Disk
Steps 1 through 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
Increase Disk space
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10677?viewlocale=en_US
Reset SMC. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Choose the method for:
"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".
Best.

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Things You Can Do To Resolve Slow Downs
If your computer seems to be running slower here are some things you can do:
Start with visits to:     OS X Maintenance - MacAttorney;
                                  The X Lab: The X-FAQs;
                                  The Safe Mac » Mac Performance Guide;
                                  The Safe Mac » The myth of the dirty Mac;
                                  Mac maintenance Quick Assist.
Boot into Safe Mode then repair your hard drive and permissions:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions Pre-Lion
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
Repair the Hard Drive - Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the Utilites Menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD disk icon and click on the arrow button below.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported, then click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
Restart your computer normally and see if this has helped any. Next do some maintenance:
For situations Disk Utility cannot handle the best third-party utility is Disk Warrior; DW only fixes problems with the disk directory, but most disk problems are caused by directory corruption; Disk Warrior 4.x is now Intel Mac compatible.
Note: Alsoft ships DW on a bootable DVD that will startup Macs running Snow Leopard or earlier. It cannot start Macs that came with Lion or later pre-installed, however, DW will work on those models.
Suggestions for OS X Maintenance
OS X performs certain maintenance functions that are scheduled to occur on a daily, weekly, or monthly period. The maintenance scripts run in the early AM only if the computer is turned on 24/7 (no sleep.) If this isn't the case, then an excellent solution is to download and install a shareware utility such as Macaroni, JAW PseudoAnacron, or Anacron that will automate the maintenance activity regardless of whether the computer is turned off or asleep. Dependence upon third-party utilities to run the periodic maintenance scripts was significantly reduced since Tiger. These utilities have limited or no functionality with Snow Leopard or later and should not be installed.
OS X automatically defragments files less than 20 MBs in size, so unless you have a disk full of very large files there's little need for defragmenting the hard drive.
Helpful Links Regarding Malware Protection
An excellent link to read is Tom Reed's Mac Malware Guide.
Also, visit The XLab FAQs and read Detecting and avoiding malware and spyware.
See these Apple articles:
          Mac OS X Snow Leopard and malware detection
          OS X Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
          OS X Mountain Lion- Protect your Mac from malware
          About file quarantine in OS X
If you require anti-virus protection I recommend using VirusBarrier Express 1.1.6 or Dr.Web Light both from the App Store. They're both free, and since they're from the App Store, they won't destabilize the system. (Thank you to Thomas Reed for these recommendations.)
Troubleshooting Applications
I recommend downloading a utility such as TinkerTool System, OnyX, Mavericks Cache Cleaner, or Cocktail that you can use for removing old log files and archives, clearing caches, etc. Corrupted cache, log, or temporary files can cause application or OS X crashes as well as kernel panics.
If you have Snow Leopard or Leopard, then for similar repairs install the freeware utility Applejack. If you cannot start up in OS X, you may be able to start in single-user mode from which you can run Applejack to do a whole set of repair and maintenance routines from the command line. Note that AppleJack 1.5 is required for Leopard. AppleJack 1.6 is compatible with Snow Leopard. Applejack does not work with Lion and later.
Basic Backup
For some people Time Machine will be more than adequate. Time Machine is part of OS X. There are two components:
1. A Time Machine preferences panel as part of System Preferences;
2. A Time Machine application located in the Applications folder. It is
    used to manage backups and to restore backups. Time Machine
    requires a backup drive that is at least twice the capacity of the
    drive being backed up.
Alternatively, get an external drive at least equal in size to the internal hard drive and make (and maintain) a bootable clone/backup. You can make a bootable clone using the Restore option of Disk Utility. You can also make and maintain clones with good backup software. My personal recommendations are (order is not significant):
1. Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Get Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. Synk Pro
6. Tri-Backup
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files. For help with using Time Machine visit Pondini's Time Machine FAQ for help with all things Time Machine.
Referenced software can be found at MacUpdate.
Additional Hints
Be sure you have an adequate amount of RAM installed for the number of applications you run concurrently. Be sure you leave a minimum of 10% of the hard drive's capacity as free space.
Add more RAM. If your computer has less than 2 GBs of RAM and you are using OS X Leopard or later, then you can do with more RAM. Snow Leopard and Lion work much better with 4 GBs of RAM than their system minimums. The more concurrent applications you tend to use the more RAM you should have.
Always maintain at least 15 GBs or 10% of your hard drive's capacity as free space, whichever is greater. OS X is frequently accessing your hard drive, so providing adequate free space will keep things from slowing down.
Check for applications that may be hogging the CPU:
Pre-Mavericks
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Mavericks and later
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the View menu. Click on the CPU tab in the toolbar. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Often this problem occurs because of a corrupted cache or preferences file or an attempt to write to a corrupted log file.

HT201541 Our Mac-Mini has gotten slower and slower. Is there a utility that would help speed it up?

Our 4 plus year old Mac-Mini has gotten slower and slower. Is there a utility that would help speed it up or is there another?

Hello! I’ve offered the steps below to similar posts in the past and they helped out getting to the solution (or at least find the cause). I suggest them to you too in this case. It will take you about 30 minutes or less to do these, depending on how bad the problem on your Mac is.
The goal here is to boot your Mac to the so-called Recovery partition where you’ll have a chance to repair the disk and the disk permissions using the Disk Utility and Password Utility. This might solve your issue and even if it doesn’t- it’s still a decent maintenance step to perform. These steps won’t erase your data or reinstall your Mac in any way if you follow instructions carefully.
Here’s how:
1/ Make sure your computer is completely shut down.
2/ You’ll have to be quick next: Press the Mac’s power button. As soon as you either hear the loud chime, or see the display light up - usually after a second or 2 - on your keyboard press [cmd] + [r] Keep these keys on your keyboard pressed until you either see an Apple Logo with a loading bar or a spinning gear.
After a few minutes, you’ll be presented with a Utilities screen. This is the Recovery partition. If this step is already giving you problems, try using a USB-keyboard. It doesn’t have to be an Apple-keyboard. If you have a Windows-tailored keyboard laying around, use the “Windows-flag” key in stead of the [cmd]-key and it should also work.
3/ Choose Disk Utility and click [continue]
Disk Utility will display your computer’s harddrive in the left column. The default name for it is “Macintosh HD” and is usually the second one from the top. Click on it and click on the [verify disk] button. This will check your “Macintosh HD” harddrive partition for errors. If found, click [repair disk] unless you have a Fusion drive in your Mac and it says [fix] instead of [repair disk] please tell us before you continue! For a screenshot of what I mean, check this article from Apple: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202574
4/ Once done with the verifying or repairing of your “Macintosh HD” click [repair disk permissions]
This will check your partition for permissions errors. A common myth about this feature is that it will fix all permissions issues on your Mac, which is not true, but it will fix most systemwide issues. Also, here is a list of error messages that you can safely ignore if they pop up:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203172
5/ Lastly we shall do a permissions/Access Control List repair on specifically your user’s home folder with a somewhat hidden tool in the Recovery partition. Close Disk Utility and find the menu called “utilities” in the top left corner of your computer’s display. It’s in between the menus “edit” and “window” Don’t be confused with the menu called “os x utilities”
Choose Terminal. A somewhat old-fashioned looking window will pop up, waiting for a text command from you. This is the Terminal.
After the # type: resetpassword and press return. Note that there is no space between ‘reset’ and ‘password’
What you’ll see next is an rectangular window that gives you the option to reset passwords. We are not going to that, however. Instead, click on “Macintosh HD” at the top. In the pull-down menu below that, choose your user's accountname. Skip all the rest and at the very bottom click the [reset]-button.
A spinning gear will appear and may stay on for a second or several minutes. It’s hard to predict exactly how long.
If you have multiple users on your Mac, I advise you to repeat this step for all your users.
We’re ready to reboot your Mac now. Click on the Apple Menu and choose “startup disk” Choose to boot from “Macintosh HD” Please let us know if this solved your issue, or if the steps above did not work, or could not be performed for some reason.
If they worked I suggest you do these steps everytime your Mac becomes slow.

TA48312 I use a 6 year old iBook G4. It has gotten slow. The wheel just spins. Can someone help me?

I am 89 years young. I use a 6 year old iBook G4. It has gotten slower than me. I can't open firefox anymore. I can't get to google in Safari. The wheel just spins. Can someone help me?
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Hi, and welcome to Apple Support Communities.
Are you posting with it here?
How long has it been since you did any hard drive maintenance?
After six years of use, the hard drive may be so full that it is hampering performance.
From http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/lackofram.html :
Determine the available space on your Mac OS X startup disk
In Finder®, select the startup disk icon. For most users, this is Macintosh HD.
Press the Command-I keyboard shortcut.
The Info window for your startup disk opens. In the General pane, the Capacity, Available (free space), and space Used on your startup disk is displayed, as seen in the following screen shot:
As a general rule of thumb: if the Available space on the Mac OS X startup disk is less than 10 GB, it is time to free some disk space. We suggest 10 GB as an absolute minimum as this is generally the amount of free space required to reinstall Mac OS X 10.5 and earlier via an Archive and Install and still preserve space for VM swap files. More free space is better. For example, users of FileVault may want to retain more free space than that occupied by their encrypted Home folder: disabling FileVault requires free space somewhat greater than the size of your encrypted Home folder.
Even though Mac OS X 10.4 doesn't take as much space as Mac OS X 10.5, you still need to keep quite a bit of free space on your hard drive. A too-full hard drive is a common cause of system slowdowns.
If you find that you do have enough disk space, post back and we will explore other potential problems.

My macbook air has gotten slow this past week i have changed browsers and the beach ball keeps coming up all the time and on a game i play it says the network is slow can anyone help me?

my macbook air has gotten slow this past week i have changed browsers and the beach ball keeps coming up all the time and on a game i play it says the network is slow can anyone help me

Go step by step and test.
Restart the router. Restart the computer.
OS X 10.7 Lion / 10.8. Mountain Lion
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3915
Start up in Safe Mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4373
Repair Disk
Steps 1 through 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836?viewlocale=en_US
Reset SMC.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Choose the method for:
"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".
Increase Disk Space
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10677?viewlocale=en_US
Best.

Apple id has been disabled. how to fix it?

apple id has been disabled. how to fix it?

Then it must be disabled for reasons other that using an incorrect password too many times. You'll have to contact iTunes store support to get this resolved: http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html.

My iPod touch has been disabled, how to fix it

my iPod Touch has been disabled, how to fix it? I opened iTunes, can't find "Restore" as suggested by Apple. Please help. Thanks.

Disabled
Place the iOS device in Recovery Mode and then connect to your computer and restore via iTunes. The iPod will be erased.
iOS: Wrong passcode results in red disabled screen
If recovery mode does not work try DFU mode.
How to put iPod touch / iPhone into DFU mode « Karthik's scribblings
For how to restore:
iTunes: Restoring iOS software
To restore from backup see:
iOS: How to back up
If you restore from iCloud backup the apps will be automatically downloaded. If you restore from iTunes backup the apps and music have to be in the iTunes library since synced media like apps and music are not included in the backup of the iOS device that iTunes makes.
You can redownload most iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store

Please help a mother that has no idea how to fix a ipod

i need help in fixing my daughters ipod she cant remember her passcode and she has tryed to many times and it has now disabled her ipod i have no clue in how to fix this it says to connect to itunes i did that and still nothing please help me in this matter she is going a little bit crazy her and so am i thank you for helping me in this problem the faster the better

You do not have to restore to factory settings/new iPod. Restoring from backup does not restore the screen-lock passcode.
Also the article you provided a link troi does not apply to the iPod touch. The article says:
Products Affected
iPod, iPod classic, iPod classic 160GB (Late 2009), iPod mini, iPod nano
Thomas A Reed wrote:
For security reasons, the only thing you can do if the passcode has been forgotten is to restore the iPod to factory defaults.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1339

MacBook running slow, how to fix?

About three months ago my 2010 macbook started running slow and has progressively gotten worse. There are no downloads that triggered anything and at first I found that keeping iTunes closed helped speed everything up, but even that isnt helping now. Help?

Back up your documents and everything else important to you, not that there is any reason to believe your hard disk may be failing, but the symptoms you describe may presage an impending disk failure, and you should have backups anyway.
To help determine the possible causes of this behaviour read the following. None of what follows is intended to fix anything, but it will provide the additional information required to advance troubleshooting:
Boot OS X Recovery by holding ⌘ and r (two fingers) while you start your Mac. At the Mac OS X Utilities screen, select Disk Utility. Select your startup volume (usually named "Macintosh HD") and click the Repair Disk button. Describe any errors it reports in red. If Disk Utility reports "The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK" in green then you can be reasonably (though not completely) assured your hard disk is in good working order.
When it finishes restart your Mac and test again for operation. If it's still not behaving as you expect it should, please post the results of EtreCheck in accordance with the following instructions:
Apple Support Communities contributor etresoft wrote a very useful app to quickly gather certain system information that may help point to a cause of this problem. Read about it here. It contains a link to download EtreCheck. Don't download it from anywhere else (such as may be found by following the results of an Internet search).
Click Open - etresoft contributes to this forum frequently and can be considered a trustworthy developer.
It will take a moment to run as it collects its data.
Copy and paste its output in a reply.
Do not be concerned about anything that says "Problem" or “failed” or anything else that may appear in red.
EtreCheck was designed to remove any personal information (such as your computer's name and serial numbers) but if you see anything that looks like an email address or any other personal information that should not be divulged to others, please delete or obscure that information when you post the reply.
When you are finished with EtreCheck, quit the program. It occupies very little space, and you can keep it or drag it to the Trash as you wish.
After completing the above please determine if the problems also occur in "Safe Mode":
Safe Mode or "Safe Boot" is a troubleshooting mode that bypasses all third party system extensions and loads only required system components. Read about it: Starting up in Safe Mode
You must disable FileVault before you can start your Mac in Safe Mode.
Starting your Mac in Safe Mode will take longer than usual, graphics will not render smoothly, audio is disabled on some Macs, and some programs (iTunes for example) may not work at all.
Merely starting your Mac in Safe Mode is not intended to resolve the problem, it's to observe its performance without certain additional components.
To end Safe Mode restart your Mac normally. Shutdown will take longer as well.
System performance problems for reasons that cannot be isolated to any other cause justify an SMC reset. Be sure to read the procedure carefully and follow all the steps exactly as written, even if they seem inapplicable or trivial.

Licensing for Acrobat 9 Pro has quit working - How to fix this

I just subscribed to the Photography plan that gives me access to Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5. I already own Design Creative Suite CS3 and Adobe Acrobat Pro (9). When I downloaded the application manager and began to download PS & LR it showed all applications and most listed as the option "Try" and on Acrobat XI Pro it indicated "Up To Date." Once I downloaded and installed the PS & LR applications I tried to open a .pdf to do some research. I got the following message as Acrobat Pro tried to open:
Licensing for this product has stopped working.
You cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the
problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling this product or
contacting your IT adminstrator or Adobe customer support
for help.
I uninstalled Acrobat XI and Acrobat 9 from my computer, restarted it, then re-installed Acrobat Pro 9 from the CS3 installation disk. When done I tried to open a .pdf and got the same message. I restarted the computer and tried again and got the same message. I then did a Verify Permissions & Repair Permissions and Checked the Disc. (BTW this is all on a Mac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 o/s. I have the 10.8 Mountain Lion o/s disk on the way, so I can't install/use LR 5 until that is done. anyway...)
Since it is Sunday and there is NO Adobe Customer Support and there is no IT department in my house, what do you think I should do? As an aside, the initial download/install for Photoshop CC hung at 44% installed. I did online chat with Bhartha at Adobe and he managed to do nothing but make my system worse. So I got away from him and repaired the damage he caused when I did the "screen share" operation with him. IM not so HO, Adobe's support system, what's the technical term?, SUCKS. If I had any good options to Photoshop and Lightroom I would use them, but for now I'd be stuck with something worse, like GIMP and Aperture. Okay, that's my rant about the sub-standard approach Adobe has to support. Apparently they feel that once you have their product then you're stuck with it and if they give you crappy service, so what? I hopefully await the day when Adobe gets bought and ruined by Microsoft. Like the old days when the phone company was one big corporation. Their motto: We Don't Care. We Don't Have To. Adobe seems to have adopted that idea.
Does anyone have an idea how to solve this problem

Everything was fine until I downloaded & installed PS CC. I had a copy of Acrobat 9 I had purchased. There was also a folder for AA XI I had previously downloaded as a Cloud member, but had cancelled that and did not use AA XI. Everything in CS worked fine for the last 2-3 years, until this download. As I stated, the download "hung" on install the first time at 44% install & I contacted Adobe via the chat line. Why a download of Photoshop CC would wreak havoc on my functional Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro (or XI Pro, for that matter), is something they couldn't explain, and they couldn't fix. They provided no help whatsoever...in point of fact the tech guy didn't actually seem to know how to navigate on a Mac. First thing he did, using the "Screen Share" process, was open the Parallels partition and boot Windows. And since this problem had nothing to do with my Windows/Parallel partition it was clear he didn't have a clue. Everything he did after that just confirmed his ineptitude, right up until I turned the computer off to get rid of him.
At any rate, I used the step-by-step procedures delineated in 3 other forum discussion threads which all said do the same thing. I did. It did not help. Of course I will call Adobe tomorrow and I'm sure they will not have any solution either. Which is why I unsubscribed to the Cloud account. Every time they had updates for any application the installs would fail and then the previously installed programs wouldn't work and I would have to uninstall & reinstall EVERYTHING. That was their solution. The brilliant minds of Adobe Tech Support in action. "Did you try powering if off and then back on...?"
At risk of being seen as a person with an actual opinion based on experience, I will say that ADOBE TECH PERSONNEL ARE MORONS. Of course they're in Kuala Lumpur or some other seemingly exotic place (unless, of course, that's where you are, in which case Des Moines, Iowa seems exotic), so maybe they don't get very good training on the products they are supposed to support. Adobe doesn't care about good support. They already have your money and they pretty much have a monopoly on a few of their niches (Photoshop, Lightroom). Any place you can find another manufacturer's product that competes with Adobe, for example Corell's Painter vs. Adobe Illustrator, the other manufacturer's product is ALWAYS BETTER. ALWAYS. So I am stuck with Adobe products due to occupational need, and stuck with their sub-standard support. Whether by design or omission, ADOBE DOES NOT SUPPORT THEIR PRODUCTS. In point of fact, I DESPISE these clowns. I just am forced to deal with them against my desires and better judgment. Probably why homicide is illegal.

Wirless connection has gotten slow

My wireless has for the past week or so started to get significantly slow, measured decrease around 10x slower actually.
Here's my setup:
- Apple LED Cinema Display 24" running in clamshell mode (just got this screen last week)
- Wireless Keyboard and Magic Trackpad (got it together with the display)
- D-Link DI-524 router/wifi
What bugs me out, is that, my other MacBook (late 2008 model) has a great wireless connection with no speed loss experienced. So either it has something to do with my MacBook Pro or they've started to conflict with each other over the WiFi.
So far I've tried to:
- Reset my router and all its configurations
- Reset the .plist files in Library/SystemConfiguration/ (several times)
- Delete the network from Preferred Networks
- Dele the password keychain for my network
- Use OpenDNS
Can it be the my new bluetooth peripherals (keyboard and magic trackpad) that are corrupting my WiFi connection? Or what can it be?

Are you referring to wireless speeds with regards to internet speeds OR local transfer speeds? Try:
1. Connect the devices via Ethernet to the router, and run a speedtest;
2. Try changing the wireless transmission channel on the router (I use a utility called Air Radar to see what channels my neighbours transmit on, and then pick something else to minimise any interferance).
Let us know how you get on!

Importing songs has gotten slower...

Hey, has anyone had their importing time increase, taking a longer time to import music from CD to hardrive?
I can't find anything to explain or fix this...
Dell Dimensions E510 Windows XP

pivot1 wrote:
The amount of used memory varies. Last night it said 3.74 GB was used and today it is 2.62 GB. I have a total of 4 GB. How do I deleted unused caches?
Click on Disk Utility/Macintosh HD/First/Aid - what does it show for your Capacity & Available at the bottom of the window?

My computer has virus and how to fix it nose

How do I fix my computer that has virus?

Chiqui16 wrote:
How do I fix my computer that has virus?
What specific behavior are you seeing that makes you think it has a virus?
One common thing that is often blamed on viruses these days is adware, which causes pop-up ads, new tabs and redirects to other sites in your web browser. If this is what you are experiencing, see my Adware Removal Guide.
(Fair disclosure: I may receive compensation from links to my sites, TheSafeMac.com and AdwareMedic.com.)

Safari is agonizingly slow; how to fix?

Safari used to be a fast, smooth browser for me but for some time now, I've been getting spinning wheels a lot. Crashes, sometimes. Mail has also been slow, but nowhere near as bad.
Recommendations? Any info you need from me?

If Safari is getting very slow:
(Presumably you regularly empty your Safari cache by deleting the following file:
Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/cache.db
and clear your History)
Adding Open DNS codes to your Network Preferences, should give good results in terms of speed-up as well as added security:
If you are using a single computer: Open System Preferences/Network. Double click on your connection type, or select it in the drop-down menu, and in the box marked 'DNS Servers' add the following two numbers:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
(You can also enter them if you click on Advanced and then DNS)
Sometimes reversing the order of the DNS numbers can be beneficial in cases where there is a long delay before web pages start to load, and then suddenly load at normal speed:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2296
If your computer is part of a network:please refer to this page: http://www.opendns.com/start/best_practices/#your_network and follow the advice given.
If you use a Router, make sure it has the latest firmware installed.
One reason for a slowness in page loading may be the 'DNS Pre-fetching' feature of Safari 5.x as is described here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3408?viewlocale=en_US
You can cancel DNS pre-fetching by going to Terminal and typing:
defaults write com.apple.safari WebKitDNSPrefetchingEnabled -boolean false
You have to restart Safari for it to take effect.
If Safari seems to hang for ages:
If you have a lot of tabs open and/or a lot of pages running Flash, Safari can sometimes 'hang', requiring a restart of Safari. This can often be inconvenient, and as it is rarely Safari itself that is hanging but merely one of its plug-ins, usually Flash, there is a way using Terminal to restart the plug-ins (without restarting Safari and losing your tabs) by quitting the WebPluginHost process:
Open the Terminal from the Utilities folder in /Applications and type
killall -9 WebKitPluginHost
Note that this command kills all Safari plug-ins, not just Flash. All plug-ins should start back up when you reload the page.
Then go back to Safari and refresh any pages that were using the Flash plug-in. This also fixes the Beachball of Death. Try this whenever Safari gets slow or freezes. The latest versions of Flash 10.1 appear to have improved the situation somewhat, but haven't completed eliminated it.
For this and other reasons Apple switched their websites to HTML5 in January 2011:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/01/26/apple_revamps_its_public_website_u sing_html5.html

Youtube slow - how to fix? iPad 1

My iPad is extremely slow on youtube.
A friend of mine noticed it and commented that his internet is faster.
I have 11M down and on iMac and MBP it isn't a problem.
After going online, I found several posts in Google about same problem, but few answers and no fixes.
HELP!

I did - sort of. I realized that obviously there was some calendar invite or meeting I received from a source (in this case Google) that was causing the app to crash. Here's what I did;
Made backup of iPad in iTunes
Disabled All calendar syncs
Re-enabled one at a time, checked iCal, and if it crashed I found the offending account causing it (in my case - Google)
Went to my google account to find whatever meetings I had there, made manual note of them, then deleted them from Google.
Went into iPad, turned on syncing again for Google calendars, then checked - no crash (and no meetings, either)
Added in via the iPad the meetings that needed to be there to alert me
I know - it's a pain in the arse - but I think I narrowed the problem to be some people sending me invites with .ics files generated from Lotus notes and forwarded to my gmail account, where I add it to my calendar from there. I have yet to have an Outlook/Exchange invite sent to me that crashes my iPad. What I've done since then while I have an Exchange account:
Create a personal calendar in my Outlook (which connects to an exchange server)
I get the invite in my gmail account
I access my gmail account from my Outlook (just add your gmail as an IMAP account)
Add it to the PERSONAL calendar I previously added to Outlook.
When that syncs - it works like a champ
If you're not using Outlook at all, I would think the first 6 steps would apply. There is an option in "Advanced" under iTunes sync at the bottom that says to delete all calendar information on the iPad BEFORE it updates all the meetings. You may want to do this too in order to make sure the offending entries are whacked.
Hope this helps.

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