14 DAY TRIAL // Maintain has released a new version of its general purpose utility for Mac OS X, Cocktail. Version 4.3.1 addresses a scheduling issue, fights more malware and adds minor improvements. According to Maintain, the update is “highly recommended for all users [of Cocktail].”
The release notes for Cocktail 4.3.1 reveal that Maintain has addressed an issue in which Cocktail may stop responding during a scheduled clearing of system caches. Additionally, the new release includes clearing of the trojan Lamzev.A and the worm Inqtana.A, Maintain says. While the rest of the package includes only minor improvements on the “clear potentially harmful files procedure,” the update is “highly recommended for all users,” the company states.
Using the digital toolset that is Cocktail, Mac users 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.
Users can also grab Cocktail to 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, 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.
Cocktail can even change the speed, duplex and MTU of the user's 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.