14 DAY TRIAL // The savvy folks at Maintain have updated Cocktail, the general purpose utility application for Mac OS X, adding the ability to clear harmful files off the system (including some trojans) and more. The new version also lets you clear out the CrashReporter and HungReporter logs, fixing a few QuickTime compatibility issues.
Cocktail is a digital toolset that helps Leopard users 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.
According to Maintain, the latest version of the software “adds [the] ability to clear potentially harmful files such as most common trojans or other files that may harm your system in any way,” as well as the ability “to clear CrashReporter and HungReporter logs,” the changelog reads. Finally, Cocktail 4.3 fixes compatibility issues with QuickTime 7.6, according to the release notes.
Cocktail also enables those who use the application to customize the look and feel of Finder, Dock and login window, and makes 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, and so on. Additionally, by using Cocktail, one may also easily delete locked or inaccessible items, and access and delete invisible DS Store files at their will.
Using the software, you can also change the speed, duplex and MTU of your network, or tweak network settings for eight common types of connections. 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, etc.