Download Cocktail 4.5 Snow Leopard Edition

Cocktail 4.5 is a new edition of Cocktail for users running Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Besides adding Mac OS X 10.6 compatibility, Cocktail 4.5 also includes 64-bit support and major speed improvements to Pilot. The new version of the software also contains an overhauled Sparkle update framework, updated Automator actions and updated help files.

Cocktail allows 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 the Spotlight indexing of selected disks, erase the Spotlight index for selected disks, rebuild the Launch Services database, and more.

Mac owners using Cocktail can also customize the look and feel of Finder, Dock and the 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.

Readers can immediately obtain a free trial version of Cocktail using the first download link below. When unregistered, Cocktail (Snow 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.

“Cocktail is an award winning general purpose utility [...] It is a smooth and powerful digital toolset with a variety of practical features that simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions and helps Mac users around the world to get the most out of their computers,” Maintain, the developer of Cocktail, says.

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

Download Cocktail for Panther (Free)