Friday, November 11, 2005

Xupport 3.1 Update

Xupport is a multipurpose system utility for Mac OS X. It provides 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.

Changes in Xupport 3.1:
– Maintenance: Improved Maintenance Pilot
– Maintenance: Cleaning of Address Book and iPhoto Caches fixed (Tiger)
– Unix: Improved man to html conversion
– Settings: Disk: Disk spindown time fixed (Tiger)
– Backup: Improved disk compatibility
– German localization available
– Several minor improvements and bug fixes

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, …
– 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

Website:
(http://www.computer-support.ch/xupport/)

Download:
(http://www.computer-support.ch/xupport/download.html)
(http://www.computer-support.ch/xupport/download/XU3.dmg.gz)

Screenshots:
(http://www.computer-support.ch/xupport/screenshots.html)

Application Icon:
(http://www.computer-support.ch/xupport/icons/Xupport.tiff)

Price:
Xupport single user license: $19.90
Xupport single user license upgrade: $9.90
Volume discounts and site licenses available.

System Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or higher

Localization:
English, German, Japanese (Italian, French, Spanish will follow)