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The field of Mac OS X system maintenance and tweaking utilities is getting crowded. There is of course the venerable freeware MacJanitor. Cocktail, which also started out as freeware, then switched to $10.00 demoware, has developed a following, and just released a version 3.0 rewritten from scratch (see Shareware Beat for October 14). Cocktail also established a basic interface and feature set motif for this sort of utility, which is also now available in Koingo Software's $10.00 MacPilot and the freeware OnyX utility. Now the developer of the famous TinkerTool utility that provides GUI access to certain hidden preferences in OS X has jumped in with another system maintenance utility dubbed TinkerTool System, which is Euro 7.00 demoware. 
TinkerTool System allows you to change advanced operating system settings and gives access to internal maintenance features built into Mac OS X. The following features are available in TinkerTool System:
• Run the periodic system maintenance scripts by simply pressing a button
The features marked with an asterisk (*) are available without any restrictions even if TinkerTool System runs in demo mode. In demo mode, TinkerTool System lets you check out the other features, but you need to register in order to apply them.
TinkerTool System is fully compliant with Apple's security guidelines for Mac OS X. It does not need an installer and does not require special system packages to be installed. To launch the tool, no administrator password is needed.
System requirements:
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The basic maintenance functions of all the OS X system maintenance utilities mentioned above are similar, although each has its particularities in the bells and whistles category. It's pretty hard to argue with freeware OnyX if you just want the basic package of functions. However, TinkerTool System offers some extra functionality if you need it. TinkerTool 3.01 Released Also new, freeware TinkerTool Version 3 opens the doors for the next generation of this product for changing user preferences in Mac OS X. TinkerTool allows you to access user settings built into Mac OS X that cannot be controlled by the standard "System Preferences" application. The latest version has been completely rewritten and uses a new technology that allows the tool to automatically adapt to different operating system versions. This way it is backward-compatible down to OS version 10.0 and will also guarantee fast adaption to future versions of Mac OS X. 
All preference settings changed by TinkerTool can be reset to Apple's defaults, or to the state that existed before using the tool. No dangerous background processes are used for TinkerTool's operation.
Some stuff TinkerTool enables you to do:
Because TinkerTool only gives you access to features already built into Mac OS X, its feature set varies greatly between different operating system versions. To guarantee support for all versions of Mac OS X and to avoid quality problems with "System Preferences" in Jaguar, TinkerTool returns to be a standard application, not a preference pane. The distribution package comes with an uninstaller that allows you to easily remove old TinkerTool 2.x installations. TinkerTool will be compatible with Mac OS X 10.3.
New in this version:
The following new settings are available for Mac OS X Jaguar:
System requirements:
TinkerTool is freeware
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Panther Upgrade Price From Tony Roberts Greetings Charles Time to put in my two pennyworth. Three items of possible interest to you and the readers, (i) 10.2.8, (ii) hints of my saga with a Mk1 eMac, leading to (iii) an 'intriguing' problem with Apple keyboards. !0.2.8: downloaded the amended version (both the short and the long) last week, and had the following problems with both -- unable to make Command-F work. The first screen accepted the item to be located, but after pressing Enter, all screens associated with Search disappeared. Also,Acrobat Pro 6 would not load, not would Acrobat Reader 6. After this, I reloaded 10.2.6 as my current OS -- all back to 'normal'. Mk1 eMac, (bought before eMacs became available to the general public) replaced logic board after two months use; then, I was unable to persuade any USB peripherals -- apart from keyboard and mouse -- to work in ANY USB socket (computer, keyboard or two USB hubs); also, X-Plane would not load; so, replaced logic board again. Keyboards: before accepting the (a)mended computer, I checked it out with a keyboard from one of the other eMacs in the Apple Centre. Started up OK, but the CD tray would not open, and some other problems occurred when trying to use the keyboard. Tried a second Apple Pro keyboard -- same results. Returned the next day with my own Pro keyboard -- everything worked fine on my eMac; however, my keyboard would not operate any of this year's eMacs in the shop. Is Apple starting a trend whereby computers and keyboards are linked to certain machines? If so, what will the new wireless keyboard (and mouse) be designed to work with, G5s only? For information, my equipment is: eMac from June 2002; 700MHz, Combo CD/DVD, now with 1Gb RAM; 120Gb Seagate hard drive, six partitions (Apple Tech states that a maximum of six is available) with 1 x 9.99, 1 x 20.83, 4 x 20.23 Gb partitions, a total of 111.74GB available from a 120GB drive.
Cheers
Hi Tony;
I'm not sure what's up with the keyboards. It would seem regressive to tailor something as standard as a keyboard to a particular Mac model.
My suspicion is that the ideosyncracies you have experienced may be eMac issues.
Has anyone else encountered similar keyboar incompatibilities?
Charles From Francis McSweeny Hello, Charles. Two items about Panther pricing that may be of interest.
Educators can get Panther for $69. Not bad!
Apple claims Oct. 8, as a cutoff date for getting the update at $19.95. I bought a new PB from Apple online on September 23, so I figured I would have to pay the educator price.
Then I read some articles that indicated that Oct. 8 was not written in stone, http://www.macintouch.com/.
Francis McSweeny
Thanks for the info, Francis.
Charles
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