14 DAY TRIAL // Maintain has released the latest version of its flagship app, Cocktail, an update that fixes compatibility issues with the public beta of Apple's Safari 4, while becoming fully operational on the yet unreleased Mac OS X 10.5.7.
The release notes for Cocktail 4.3.2. also reveal that Maintain has been busy “maintaining” the stability of its general purpose utility app, adding clearing of the Inqtana.B worm, fixing an issue with secure deletion of files installed by trojans and worms, and addressing an issue in which Adobe Illustrator font caches were not deleted from users’ home directory. According to the developer, the update also contains improvements on the clear font caches and clear Internet caches procedures.
Cocktail, as some of you may know, is a digital toolset that Mac owners can use to 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.
The software is also a great customization solution for those who would like to alter the look and feel of the 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.
Just as important, users can change the speed, duplex and MTU of their network, or tweak network settings for eight common types of connections, by using the same utility app. More savvy users looking to tweak their entire system can even run periodic maintenance scripts, enable or disable Spotlight indexing of selected disk, erase Spotlight index for selected disk, rebuild Launch Services database, and more.