System Utilities > System Maintenance

Description: Building on a discussion at www.macintouch.com, this application will check your preference files (both in your user's preference folder and the system's preference folder) for corruption by using the "plutil" command line tool. If it finds suspect files, it will list the files and allow you to reveal them in the Finder or move them to the trash. You may also double-click on a file in the found files table to open it in the application of your choice (you can designate the default application from the preferences). There is also an option to save the results of a scan to a text file. (Note: if you trash a file before saving a report, the report will not include information on the file you moved to the trash.)What's new in this version:Fixed a minor Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) incompatibility that prevented the application from recognizing administrative user accounts.

Keywords: information application system report folder table files scan 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 500 kb; Updated: 2007-11-07

Description: SleepWatcher is a command line tool (daemon) for Mac OS X that monitors sleep, wakeup and idleness of a Mac. It can be used to execute a Unix command when the Mac or the display of the Mac goes to sleep mode or wakes up or after a given time without user interaction. It also can send the Mac to sleep mode or retrieve the time since last user activity. A StartupItem, sample start and sleep scripts and the source code for sleepwatcher are included in the download. A little bit knowledge of the Unix command line is required to benefit from this software. SleepWatcher is published under the GNU General Public License.What's new in this version:Mac OS X 10.5. œLeopard compatibility

Keywords: download scripts source time tool code 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 102 kb; Updated: 2007-11-02

Description: MemoryCell is a MenuExtra for OS X that provides a quick overview on the memory (RAM) being used by each of your applications. With MemoryCell, you can monitor the memory usage of the foreground application, using this knowledge to restart anything that's started to bog down your system.What's new in this version:Full Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) CompatibilityFull Intel support

Keywords: application monitor system memory 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 742 kb; Updated: 2007-10-31

Description: This application is used to prevent the computer from going to sleep without changing system settings. It updates system activity timer once per some interval. Main features:can disable sleep with lid closedno Dock iconsmall floating paletteone click activation/deactivationWhat's new in this version:Fixed prevent sleep with lid closed (now this feature can be disabled while lid is closed)

Keywords: application computer system 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 536 kb; Updated: 2007-10-23

Description: IPSecuritas is a front-end of the Mac OS X IPSec subsystem built in the kernel and allows to configure and establish secure IP tunnels between your machine or network with a remote network (for example your office network) using the non-secure services offered by the Internet. IPSec is a well-defined and established IETF standard and is considered secure (as opposed to for example P2TP, which offers limited security).What's new in this version:Localization to nine languages (English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Japanese)Smart Environment Detection to autocontrol IPSecSupport of new firewall modelsBug fixes

Keywords: security internet network secure remote office 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 6349 kb; Updated: 2007-10-16

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 10.4; File size: 290 kb; Updated: 2007-05-29

Description: Updates LaCie FireWire 400/800 and USB2 drives to latest firmware for improved performance and/or compatibility.This updater will detect the version of firmware present on a drive, and offer an update if available. Not all products require an update.This updater is NOT for LaCie SAFE drives or Ethernet Disks with USB interfaces.Be sure to review the Readme for instructions.

Keywords: drive 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2.8; File size: 2355 kb; Updated: 2007-05-03

Description: With this soft you can change the file format for screen Capture in Tiger. The selected format are : JPG, TIFF, PSD and more soon.

Keywords: screen capture capture screen format file tiff 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 213 kb; Updated: 2007-03-13

Description: ultimateTask is a comprehensive utility with a simple, easy to use interface, to take care of some of the more important cleanup/maintenance tasks for your computer. ultimateTask is especially useful for System Administrators in charge of many Workstations. While Apple has many of its own utilities, there are times when you need to do certain maintenance tasks of your own choice, at a time of your own choosing. ultimateTask can run them all at once-or individually-from the applications finder menu-and can also be done via Keyboard shortcuts. There are many great Mac utilities out there, but ultimateTask is (and will in the future) be incorporating some of the more essential and useful tasks, into an all-in-one utility.In default state ultimateTask will:Repair disc permissionsExecute CRON scripts (Daily, Weekly, Monthly)Delete Log, System, User, Server, Crash, Temp, CoreultimateTask os x maintenance application will:Repair disc permissionsOptimize System (update pre-binding)Execute CRON scripts (Daily, Wee...

Keywords: application utilities computer keyboard utility scripts system delete 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.2; File size: 463 kb; Updated: 2007-03-11

Description: OnyX allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Safari, Dashboard, Expose, Disk Utility... to delete cache, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, to see the detailed info of your configuration, to preview the different logs and CrashReporter reports, and more.

Keywords: utility folders system delete remove files tasks disk 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.2; File size: 10445 kb; Updated: 2007-02-09