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Cocktail is both useful and fun for inveterate Mac tinkerers and would-be power-users (that is, power users who aren't hard-core enough to use the command line). This multipurpose utility can help you keep your computer happy and healthy, giving you access to scores of tweaks and optimizations pulled together from various utilities, preferences, third-party hacks, and command-line tools.
Cocktail can help you with routine maintenance and customization across your disks, system, files, network, and interface. Cocktail is organized around these five areas, with highly customizable options for everything from clearing caches and repairing permissions to changing the appearance and behavior of the Finder and Dock--and Cocktail's Pilot feature lets you schedule regular maintenance.
Perhaps the best part of Cocktail is its extensive help files, cross-linked to articles on Wikipedia, Apple's site, and other Mac resources. These fall short in some spots (such as with optimizing network settings), but they can provide a valuable primer on how your Mac works. There are other cheaper--and even free--options out there, but with Cocktail, you get OS-specific stability, helpful documentation, and a well-organized interface. If you're not using Snow Leopard, check out the earlier editions of Cocktail.
Publisher's Description
From Maintain:
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 one click of the button.
Cocktail (Snow Leopard Edition) requires Mac OS X 10.6. Cocktail (Leopard Edition) for Mac OS X 10.5 and Cocktail (Tiger Edition) for Mac OS X 10.4 are available for download from our website.
What's new in this version: It fixes compatibility issues with the latest versions of supported web browsers (Camino 2.x, Chrome 9.x, Firefox 4.x, Flock 3.5.x, OmniWeb 5.x, Opera 11.x, Safari 5.x) and improves the "Delete localization files" procedure. This release also fixes other minor bugs discovered in the previous version.
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4.0 starsout of 39 votes
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Current version:
4.0 starsout of 3 votes
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"Good for advanced users"
Version: Cocktail 4.8.1
Pros
Does what I used it for well. It seems to have features that go beyond what Socks and Onyx do.
Cons
Much of what Cocktail does is beyond my understanding and expertise. Other than that I find nothing wrong with this program.
Summary
This is probably a good maintenance program for more advanced and technology knowledgeable users. However, I get all maintenance capability I need from Onyx which is free.
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"Works very well"
Version: Cocktail 4.8.1
Pros
Easy to install and use
Cons
I have found none yet
Summary
I would recommend this program to anyone who feels they need it
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"One of the best packages of Unix scripts managers"
Version: Cocktail 4.8.1
Pros
Dead easy to use
Cons
None - Cocktail does it all
Summary
I use this in preference to OnyX
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