System Utilities > System Maintenance

Description: Cocktail is an award winning general purpose utility for Mac OS X. It is a smooth and powerful digital toolset with a variety of practical features that simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions and helps hundreds of thousands of Mac users around the world to get the most out of their computers.The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface. Most of Cocktail's major features are arranged in five basic categories. In addition, a Pilot lets you clean, repair and optimize your system with the click of a button.What's new in this version:Improved network optimization presetsFixed a bug causing Safari RSS reader to report NSPOSIXErrorDomain:2 errorAddress an issue in which system log server may not be restarted during rotation of the log filesImproved clearing of temporary filesFixed a bug that may cause Cocktail to bypass S.M.A.R.T. status check on external hard drivesAddresses minor compatibility issues with Mi...

Keywords: application optimize advanced digital network utility button report 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 1843 kb; Updated: 2008-03-06

Description: WowMatrix is a free World of Warcraft Addon Updater that is elegant and easy to use. No more wasting time checking WoW Addon web sites and manually installing addons.Find out which of your WoW addons and mods need updatingAutomatically downloads and installs updated WoW addonsAutomatically updates itself, not just addonsNew WoW addon and mod support added dailyWhat's new in this version:NEW - Now allows you to un-install WoW addons that you already have!Allows you to install new WoW addons, in addition to updating your existing ones!Supports new WoW addons and mods dailyAutomatically updates itself, not just addons!

Keywords: downloads free time easy find 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2867 kb; Updated: 2008-02-24

Description: Created with System Administrators who service large groups of workstations in mind, Yasu (Yet Another System Utility) was made to do a specific group of maintenance tasks quickly within a few clicks, rather than needing to endlessly type shell script commands in the Terminal application.What's new in this version:Minor fix to keychain closing method to prevent app crash on faster machines when restarting/shutting down.Complete change history available here.

Keywords: application utility history system script tasks 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2765 kb; Updated: 2008-02-23

Description: Maintain, Manage and Optimize your Hard DriveIs your computer running slower? Drive Genius 2 is the best disk utility for the Mac platform. Disk defrag, directory repair and repartition on-the-fly are only a few of the award-winning features of Drive Genius 2. Optimize your drive with Drive Genius. Yes, this is the same product used by Apple at the Genius Bar to defrag your drive!* *Part of the ProCare program offered by Apple ComputerDrive Genius has established itself as THE industry standard disk utility for the Mac platform. The new Drive Genius 2 is built upon the same award-winning foundation of the original Drive Genius. Improvements have been made to speed and overall performance in the new version. One of the most noticeable and eye catching changes is the all-new user interface. Drive Genius 2 makes hard maintenance tasks painless, fast and easy.What's new in this version:This new release adds preventive measures to help avoid an issue with Leopard (10.5.x) and Serial-ATA based drives. Apple is ...

Keywords: directory computer optimize utility repair drive tasks fast 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 9728 kb; Updated: 2008-02-16

Description: MacDust is a small and lightweight application designed to clean up your computer. MacDust performs many tasks that could easily take you another five seconds if you weren't using MacDust. The application also removes hard to get at files, and even files you've forgotten about. The Caches folder can get rather large, so using MacDust at least once a week can save you hundreds of megabytes!Tiger users can use 2.48, which is available at theapplegeek.com.

Keywords: application computer folder clean files tasks save 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 1434 kb; Updated: 2008-02-16

Description: CLIX (Command Line Interface for OS X) is a Cocoa application that harnesses the power of Unix. It's perfect for the pros and can be helpful for the noobs too.The CLIX package includes a starter database file with over 1,600 system commands for investigating your system status, for cleaning out junk files, for getting at esoteric secret settings in your most used applications - and more.And most importantly, CLIX is infinitely extensible: you can add to it at any time, in any way you please - add new commands, new command categories, new command database files, and so on.And unlike other systems, CLIX is 100% 'WYSISYG' (what you see is what you get): it's exactly the command lines you would use at a terminal if you were so inclined. So sometime you might remember a command or two and try it on your own.CLIX comes with commands for viewing all your system logs, for cleaning out browser caches, for pruning and fixing 'plist' preference files, for spelunking in root's back yard, for ridding your system of al...

Keywords: application database browser system files time file 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 463 kb; Updated: 2008-02-10

Description: With its use of the latest Mac OS X technologies, breakthrough ease-of-use and innovation, all Mac users will find CheckUp extremely useful and even fun. It's like the dashboard of your car!CheckUp is first designed to monitor the usage of CPU, Memory, Disk Drives and Network Adapters. You can display detailed information about all running processes and pause or terminate these at any time. By adding rules that will be triggered when certain conditions are met for a specified resource on the computer, you can receive visual notifications. For example, CheckUp can alert you when a certain resource exceeds a certain value or when a hard drive seems to have hardware failures, even when the application is not opened (thanks to an innovative background process and the use of the S.M.A.R.T technology).One of the most innovative feature of CheckUp is the ability to monitor a Mac on a network or via internet. It's a powerful feature for IT administrators interested to check a remote computer or a remote server (o...

Keywords: information application computer internet network monitor memory server 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 12902 kb; Updated: 2008-02-03

Description: Advanced Mac OS X disk defragmentation and optimization. Supports the very latest features of HFS+, including journaling, case sensitive filenames and adaptive hot file clustering (which means it won't mess-up the Hot Zone).What's new in this version:Added a workaround for a bug in Leopard's AHCI block storage driver.Fixed a bug in the Compact algorithm where it would finish early if the "Compact as much as possible" option is not set.A few minor improvements to the bug report feature when running on Leopard.

Keywords: advanced report block file disk 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 6042 kb; Updated: 2008-01-25

Description: Spotless is a simple utility designed to enable and disable Spotlight content indexing of volumes with the click of a button.Spotlight content indexing can cause major slow-downs on volumes that are used for backup purposes, video rendering, Photoshop scratch disks, and a wide variety of tasks that involve the transfer of large amounts of data. Spotless can effectively and indefinitely disable the indexing of volumes that you specify. Even if the volume is a removable device, the indexing status is remembered when you remount it - even on a different computer!Simply adding volumes to Spotlight's privacy list does not achieve the same results as using Spotless. You may cause the Metadata Server to crash, and the volumes may be indexed the next time you mount them. Also, while adding volumes to the privacy list disables content indexing, it also prevents you from finding the files by name.Spotless allows you to delete existing Spotlight indexes. This will free up the space used by the index files on volumes...

Keywords: computer privacy utility delete backup button server video 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 634 kb; Updated: 2008-01-17

Description: FontAgent optimizes and organizes all your fonts and provides cutting-edge features to maintain their integrity, create custom font sets, and activate them when they are needed.FontAgent delivers drag-and-drop simplicity that enables you to:Stop unpredictable font behavior by discovering problem fontsEliminate crashes by removing corrupt font filesBuild and view any number of optimized and organized font librariesDefine sets of fonts that make managing projects and documents a snapActivate only fonts you need, saving resources and simplifying font menusSelect fonts easily with powerful previewing and catalogingThe new FontAgent Pro is built from the ground up for Mac OS X, and sports an all-new Aqua interface that features OS X toolbars, sheets, and advanced preview controls. Its straightforward approach to font management and intuitive interface make it an indispensable tool for Mac OS X users.What's new in this version:New User Interface Provides Easy Font AccessKeyword Search Finds Fonts Like MagicOnli...

Keywords: management advanced corrupt search create tool easy stop 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 16384 kb; Updated: 2008-01-15