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Laurent Muller has sent out his latest public beta of Xupport 2.0 -- the All-In-One Interface for Mac OS X.
 

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Beta 11 Release

Laurent Muller has sent out his latest public beta of Xupport 2.0 -- the All-In-One Interface for Mac OS X.

Xupport provides a clean GUI (Graphical User Interface) to configure many Mac OS X options, that are not or hard to configure manually, and more. It includes several unix command to optimize and secure your Mac, and activates features that are disabled by default.

Computer-Support has made a number of changes and improvements including the addition of Russian localization; Changing the swap files location (Japanese systems); Bootable backup (Japanese systems); Resetting the "rc" startup script (Swap); and other minor improvements.

Xupport Features:

• - Hidden Finder, Dock and ExposŽ settings
• - Browse and read unix manual entries
• - Browser, delete and get Finder info for invisible files and folders
• - Run Mac OS X maintain scripts and optimization
• - Change swap file location
• - Create bootable backups
• - Configure ipfw firewall using all options
• - Enable ipfw.log as default firewall log
• - Empty Trashes with administrator privileges
• - Find and delete all '.DS_Store' files
• - Enable guest access and access log of Personal File Sharing
• - Change access port of Personal File Sharing, Web Sharing, 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

Details & Downloads

• Company: Computer-Support
• Author: Laurent Muller
• Download: Xupport2.sit Xupport 2.0b11 stuffit file
• Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher (AppleScript and BSD installed)
• Languages: English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Russian
• Downloads: http://www.computer-support.ch/Xupport/download.html
• Homepage: http://www.computer-support.ch/Xupport
• Xupport-Logo: Xupport.gif (.jpg, .tiff)

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