Download Cocktail 4.4.1 for Mac OS X 10.5.8

Maintain has released a new version of its general purpose Mac utility, Cocktail. Using Cocktail, Mac owners can optimize their computing resources, while the software simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions, and gives them access to hidden Mac OS X settings.

According to the release notes for Cocktail 4.4.1, Maintain has found a few compatibility issues with Firefox 3.5 and Flock 2.5. These issues are addressed in the latest version of Cocktail. The company has included clearing of the latest variants of the RSPlug (Jahlav) trojan horse and added Mac OS X 10.5.8 compatibility. Additionally, Maintain notes, Cocktail 4.4.1 contains other minor bug fixes as well as updated Automator actions.

Cocktail permits Mac OS X users to fine-tune their systems, enabling or disabling journaling for disks, repairing disk permissions, or setting disk spindown time. Power users looking to tweak their entire system can run periodic maintenance scripts, enable or disable Spotlight indexing of selected disks, erase Spotlight index for selected disks, rebuild the Launch Services database, and more.

Users can also customize the look and feel of Finder, Dock and login window, making it easy to prebind and re-prebind their entire system or selected folders, run cron scripts, change startup mode and language, force empty trash, update “whatis,” locate databases, etc. Cocktail also allows Mac owners to delete locked or inaccessible items, and access and delete invisible DS Store files at one’s will.

You can immediately obtain a free trial version of Cocktail using the first download link below. When unregistered, Cocktail (Leopard Edition) and Cocktail (Tiger Edition) run in demo mode and will expire after ten uses (application launch). Those still running OS X Panther can use Cocktail for free – the Panther Edition is distributed as freeware and does not require a license.

Download Cocktail for Tiger / Leopard (Update / Trial / Buy)

Download Cocktail for Panther (Free)