Download New Cocktail 4.6.1 for Mac OS X

Cocktail is a general-purpose utility developed by Maintain, which has actually carried out some maintenance on the program lately. According to the release notes posted over at the company’s website, the new version addresses an issue where Cocktail unexpectedly quit while clearing Mac OS X 10.6.2 system caches. Since the company was going to address this issue anyway, it went all the way to adding full Mac OS X 10.6.2 compatibility.

Released just days ago, Mac OS X 10.6.2 is the second incremental update to Snow Leopard, and the latest security and maintenance release for users of the software. Altogether, the major update delivers hundreds of fixes for an array of core system components, and includes over four dozen security fixes addressing both Leopard vulnerabilities and Snow Leopard flaws.

Cocktail offers a useful mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks. Having everything accessible via a comprehensive user interface, Cocktail’s major features are arranged in five basic categories, or tabs. The Pilot function offers the ability to clean, repair and optimize your system. The software is featured in Apple’s Mac OS X Downloads area in tandem with every update it receives.

“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.

Softpedia readers can immediately obtain a free, trial version of Cocktail using the first download link below. When unregistered, the Cocktail Tiger Edition, Leopard Edition and Snow Leopard Edition will run in demo mode and will expire after ten uses (application launches). The Panther Edition of the app is distributed as freeware and does not require a license, therefore those still running Mac OS X Panther can use Cocktail for free.

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

Download Cocktail for Panther (Free)