Digital toolset for optimizing the way OS X uses its resources

Nov 3, 2008 19:01 GMT  ·  By

Cocktail, Maintain's general purpose utility for Mac OS X, has reached version 4.2.0, adding the ability to search and delete corrupted preference files, improvements to the clear log files procedure, and more.

Besides the above-mentioned additions, Cocktail 4.2 (Leopard Edition) also adds a searchable database of Mac OS system error codes, and a list of commonly used network ports. Updated Help files and Automator actions, as well as some minor user interface changes, have also made their way into this release. Additionally, Cocktail 4.2.0 fixes a number of minor bugs discovered in the previous versions of the software.

Cocktail is a digital toolset that helps Leopard users squeeze every drop of power from their Macs. The application is basically aimed at simplifying the use of advanced UNIX functions, giving you access to hidden Mac OS X settings. It lets you tweak them more thoroughly, in the sense that you can, for instance, enable or disable journaling for disks, repair disk permissions, or set disk spindown time. Cocktail enables you to customize the look and feel of Finder, Dock and login window, and makes it easy to prebind and re-prebind your entire system or selected folders, run cron scripts, change startup mode and language, force empty trash, update "whatis," locate databases, and so on.

Using Cocktail, you may also easily delete locked or inaccessible items, and access and delete invisible DS Store files at your will. Additionally, you can use Cocktail to change the speed, duplex and MTU of your network, or tweak network settings for eight common types of connections. For Disks, you can also automatically check the SMART (Self Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) status, modify sleep settings for portable computers, allow or prevent mounting of external disks during system startup, enable or disable Sudden Motion Sensor, and more.

Mac-savvy users looking to tweak their entire system can run periodic maintenance scripts, enable or disable Spotlight indexing of selected disk, erase Spotlight index for selected disk, rebuild Launch Services database, enable Kiosk mode, and more.

To download the latest version of Cocktail, use the link below. The update is free to existing Cocktail users. Download Cocktail 4.2.0 (Update / Demo / Purchase)