Download New Cocktail 4.4

Maintain has updated its flagship OS X app, Cocktail, adding abilities like reset home directory permissions and ACLs, set the Time Machine’s backup interval and other settings, support for Safari 4, and more. The update is free to registered users, while a single user license costs $14.95 to buy.

The changelog reveals that Cocktail 4.4 adds new abilities like “reset home directory permissions and Access Control Lists (ACLs)” and “set Time Machine's backup interval and to modify other Time Machine settings.” Support has been added for more network interfaces, as well as for Safari 4, and the ability to disable Safari 4 webpage previews.

Using Cocktail, Mac owners can optimize their computing resources. It simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions, and gives them access to hidden Mac OS X settings. This way, users can 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.

With Maintain's general-purpose utility, 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. Additionally, by using Cocktail, one may also easily delete locked or inaccessible items, and access and delete invisible DS Store files at one’s will. Users can also employ Cocktail to change the speed, duplex and MTU of their network, or tweak network settings for eight common types of connections.

Using the download links below, one can immediately obtain a free trial version of Cocktail. 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)