14 DAY TRIAL // Maintain has released a new version of its general-purpose utility for Mac OS X, Cocktail. Version 4.3.4 adds clearing of Renepo.A, Renepo.B and Tored.A trojans, fixes compatibility issues with Mac OS X 10.5.7, Firefox and Google Gears and addresses minor bug fixes discovered in the previous release. The update also contains updated Automator actions, according to Maintain.
Using 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.
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.
Cocktail can 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.
Using the download links below, you can obtain a free trial version of Cocktail immediately. 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.
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