Maintain Releases Cocktail 4.4

Maintain has announced Cocktail 4.4 (Leopard Edition). This version adds ability to reset home directory permissions and Access Control Lists (ACLs), adds ability to set Time Machine's backup interval and to modify other Time Machine settings, adds support for more network interfaces, adds support for Safari 4 and ability to disable Safari 4 webpage previews.

Changes in Cocktail 4.4 (Leopard Edition):
* Added ability to reset home directory permissions and ACLs (Disks - Permissions)
* Added "Enable unsupported network volumes" setting (System - Time Machine)
* Added "Disable backup of system files" setting (System - Time Machine)
* Added "Do not backup when disks are mounted" setting (System - Time Machine)
* Added "Do not ask to use newly connected disks" setting (System - Time Machine)
* Added "Animate background" setting (System - Time Machine)
* Added ability to set Time Machine's backup interval (System - Time Machine)
* Added support for more network interfaces (Network - Optimization)
* Added support for Safari 4
* Added "Disable webpage previews" setting (Interface - Safari)
* Other minor bug fixes and improvements
* Updated Automator actions
* Updated help files

The update is highly recommended for all users of Cocktail (Leopard Edition).


Cocktail 4.4 (Leopard Edition) is distributed as a Universal Binary and runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. Cocktail 4.4 (Leopard Edition) requires Mac OS X / Mac OS X Server 10.5 or later and is tested for compatibility with Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server 10.5.7.

Cocktail 4.3.1 (Tiger Edition) for Mac OS X 10.4.x and Cocktail 3.7 (Panther Edition) for Mac OS X 10.3.x are available for download from our website.

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.



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