Joe Kissell helps you make your Mac run smoother in his new book, Maintaining Your Mac: A Joe On Tech Guide. Joe covers Apple utilities, third-party utilities and good computing practices in his bid to keep your computer running smoothly. Some traditional wisdom holds true, some gets a surprising update as Joe discusses housekeeping utilities, disk utilities, maintenance tasks and more. This edition of MacVoices is sponsored by Smile, the makers of PDFpen 7  and PDFpenPro 7, PDFpen for iPad, PDFpen for iPhone,  PDFpen Scan+, as well as TextExpander for Mac, TextExpander touch and DiscLabel. Great software to help you get more done. and by Lynda.com. With an unparalleled library of video training on design, web, photography, business, video and much more, Lynda.com can help you learn and improve your personal and business skills. For a free 10-day trial, visit lynda.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Chuck Joiner is the producer and host of MacVoices. You can catch up with what he’s doing on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, App.net and LinkedIn. Subscribe to the show: iTunes: - Audio in iTunes - Video in iTunes - HD Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any pod catcher:  - Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss  - Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss Guest: Joe Kissell is the author of over two dozen Take Control ebooks, as well as a host of print books. He is a senior editor for TidBITS, and a Senior Contributor to Macworld. Keep up with him if you can on his personal blog, JoeKissell.com, and on Twitter.   Links:   Disk Warrior Drive Genius TechTool Pro Clean My Mac by MacPaw Onyx by Titanium Software Gemini by MacPaw MenuMeters by Raging Menace Software