"Swiss Army Knife" for Mac OS X
Xupport 2.1 from Laurent Muller
We've told you about Xupport before, and now in the latest 2.1 update (June 11, 2004) Laurent Muller brings a lot of new features and improved features to the "Swiss Army Knife" for Mac OS X.
Xupport is a graphical user interface to configure many hidden Mac OS X and Unix options. It provides many functions to maintain, optimize, backup, clean, hack, enhance and secure Mac OS X. But you ask: "So what's a 'Swiss Army Knife' for Mac do?"
Glad you asked:
Xupport Key Features:
- Activate hidden Finder, Dock and Expos settings
- Browse and read unix manual entries (man)
- Browse, delete and get Finder info for invisible files and folders
- Run Mac OS X maintain scripts and optimizations
- Change swap file location (virtual memory)
- Create bootable backups
- Configure "ipfw" firewall using all options
- Empty Trashes with administrator privileges
- Find and delete ".DS_Store" files
- Find and delete old log files and their backups
- Enable/Disable guest access and access log of Personal File Sharing
- Change access port of Personal File Sharing, Web Sharing, Remote Login (ssh)
- Clear "Launch Service" caches ("Rebuild Desktop" in OS 9)
- Enable/Disable "Disk Journaling"
- Set disk spindown time (AC and battery power)
- Optimize network settings for broadband connection
- Request new IP from a DHCP server
- Repair disk permissions
New in Xupport 2.1:
- New: Maintenance jobs can be run in queue.
- New: Maintenance jobs now run in background (Xupport can be used while running)
- New: Shutdown option for maintenance and backup jobs
- New: Preference setting for enabling "xupport" as shell command
- Bugfix: Prevents Xupport losing log connection when running maintenance jobs
- Bugfix: Displays the backup log correctly (broke in Mac OS 10.3.4)
- Some other minor bugfixes and improvements
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