Cocktail is a general purpose utility for Mac OS X. It is a digital toolset with a variety of practical features and tweaks to help you get the most out of your computer

The application simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions, gives access to hidden Mac OS X settings and let you easily optimize your system.

Cocktail gives you access to hidden features of your disks, system, files, network and interface.

Cocktail is a smooth, powerful and simple to use utility with all major features arranged in five basic categories and a "Pilot" that lets you maintain your system with one click of the button.

Here are some key features of "Cocktail":

· Enable or disable journaling.
· Repair disk permissions.
· Set disk spindown time.
· Prebind and re-prebind entire system or selected folder.
· Run cron scripts.
· Change startup mode and language.
· Modify sleep settings.
· Force empty trash.
· Rebuild Launch Services database.
· Update whatis and locate databases.
· Delete locked or inaccessible items.
· Delete invisible DS Store files.
· Clean system, user and Internet caches.
· View, rotate, print and save logs.
· Create symbolic links.
· Recreate Mac OS 9 Desktop alias.
· Lock or unlock files and folders.
· Change speed, duplex and MTU.
· Optimize network settings for eight most common types of connections or apply the custom optimization.
· Configure the Mac OS X file server.
· Customize look and features of Finder, Dock and login window.
· Modify hidden settings of Expose, Mail, Safari and other applications.
· Easily optimize your system.
· Schedule maintenance tasks.

Limitations:

· 10 launches trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Addresses an issue in which Pilot scheduler could not be enabled.
· Error -105 (Path to user's home directory contains spaces)
· Error -114 (Home directory not found in the /Users folder)
· Addresses an issue in which Cocktail could not force empty the Trash.
· Error -362 (The Trash contains more than 2000 files)
· Addresses an issue in which Safari webpage previews could not be disabled.
· Addresses an issue in which Cocktail may freeze when trying to gather disk information or the journaling state of the case-sensitive HFS+ disks could not be detected.
· Error -215 (diskutil is not responding)
· Error -217 (Could not get information about the partition)
· Addresses an issue in which improper permissions were applied to the File Sharing logs during the rotation of these logs.
· Added OS X 10.7.3 compatibility.
· Updated Automator actions.