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Swedish software maker Maintain today announced the latest version of their popular Macintosh maintenance utility, Cocktail. Version 4.1.3 adds support for OS X10.5.4, the most recent Leopard update, and includes multiple bug fixes:

• prevents reversion of Firefox 3 bookmarks to an outdated version when clearing Internet caches
• fixes an issue whereby Cocktail may stop responding when clearing user caches
• corrects behavior in which the utility would fail to properly reset UDP default settings when running the Cocktail uninstaller

As a utility, Cocktail offers a GUI to many of OS X’s hidden features, including Unix maintenance scripts, Force Empty Trash, advanced network card settings, and extensive Dock/Finder/Menu Bar customization. Most of the settings available in Cocktail are accessibile from the OS X Terminal, but many users are either uncomfortable or completely unaware of the powerful command line interface available to them. In addition, Cocktail can perform several general maintenance tasks, such as clearing log files, deletion of .ds_store files created by OS X, and deletion of caches such as internet histories/cookies, QuickTime caches, and font caches.

Cocktail 4.1.3 is compatible with both OS X 10.5 and OS X 10.5 Server versions, and has been tested on both systems. For users of older OS X versions, Cocktail is available in version 4.0.2 (for OS X 10.4.x) and version 3.7 (for OS X 10.3.x). As a shareware application, Cocktail is available free as a limited demo; a single user license is available for $14.95 (all versions).

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