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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.

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

Existing users may use the integrated update function in order to
download the latest update. Otherwise, get it here (.sit file).

Xupport Key Features:

• Activate hidden Finder, Dock and Exposé settings


• Browse and read unix manual entries (man)


• Browser, 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


• ... many more features

Xupport requires Mac OS X v10.2 or higher. Click here to get more detailed information.

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