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Press release edited by Applelinks senior editor Kirk Hiner

Xupport is a multipurpose system utility for Mac OS X, providing many features to configure hidden Mac OS X and Unix options, to increase system security and performance, to maintain and backup Mac OS X and to dig deeper into the world of Unix. Xupport 3 is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and Mac OS X 10.3 Panther), and provides a brand new user interface with plenty of new and improved features.

Main Changes:

• Tiger compatibility
• Native authorization technology
• Much more hidden Settings
• Cleaning browser caches, histories, cookies, etc.
• Cleaning native Mac OS X Applications caches
• Extended file deletion functionality
• Improved and more detailed network optimizer
• Improved virtual memory optimization (swap)
• More comfortable ipfw firewall interface
• More backup options
• Multiple and resizable file browser windows
• Improved unix manual browser

Key Features:

• Access hidden System, Finder and Dock settings
• Run native maintenance scripts
• Reset file type settings (Rebuild Desktop)
• Reset Finder information (.DS_Store)
• Clean system and application log files
• Clean browser caches, cookies, web icons, etc.
• Delete files and folders with administrator privileges
• Network optimizer
• Virtual memory optimizer (swap)
• Access hidden server settings (afp, http, ssh, ftp, smb)
• Create additional shared directories (Share Points)
• Advanced firewall interface (ipfw)
• Create bootable backups
• Create backup disk images for software restoration
• Browse hidden system files and folders
• Display system integrated unix manual pages (man)
• Mac OS X shortcuts collection
• Mac OS X error codes collection
• ASCII table and conversion

A Xupport single user license costs $19.90, while a single user license upgrade is only $9.90. Volume discounts are available. Xupport requires Mac OS X v10.3 or higher, and is localized for English use (German, Italian, French, Spanish, Japanese will follow). For more information visit the Xupport website.