Socks is a powerful and flexible tool for troubleshooting, maintaining, optimizing, and customizing Mac OS X.
Socks allows you to:
Program Customization and Automation
Socks provides a rich set of features, elegantly implemented with the ability to fully tailor and automate your maintenance routines:
Design and Security
Socks provides powerful features with a uniquely elegant and meticulously designed interface, and this design philosophy is equally reflected in Socks's internals. Socks is scrupulously designed to provide the best reliability and expandability. Unrivaled by other methods, Socks executes tasks that require system authorization through a secondary background process known as a "setuid tool," providing fast, fluid, and secure execution of the low-level tasks that lie at its core. This method is highly recommended by Apple and designated the "best [most secure] way" to perform privileged operations.
Socks allows you to:
- Troubleshoot odd behavior, crashes, and the "spinning beach ball."
- Maintain data structures relied on by the system/applications to keep them running safely and smoothly.
- Optimize system settings to improve performance, save hard drive space, and conserve RAM.
- Customize your system to better fit your needs.
Program Customization and Automation
Socks provides a rich set of features, elegantly implemented with the ability to fully tailor and automate your maintenance routines:
- Configurations: Individual "Tasks" use "Configurations" to define exactly how they do their jobs. Socks comes with a variety of convenient built-in configurations, and allows you to easily modify existing configurations and create new configurations for your specific needs and desires.
- Queues: Socks allows you to create lists of tasks, or "Queues," that run tasks in succession, allowing you to leave your computer while it performs any number of tasks on its own. Socks includes several built-in queues, and the ability to modify existing queues and create new queues in a similar fashion as task configurations.
- Schedules: Queues can be scheduled to run at specific times of the day and repeat at regular intervals. This allows your computer to execute tasks automatically. Socks can even run queues automatically in the event your system crashes.
Design and Security
Socks provides powerful features with a uniquely elegant and meticulously designed interface, and this design philosophy is equally reflected in Socks's internals. Socks is scrupulously designed to provide the best reliability and expandability. Unrivaled by other methods, Socks executes tasks that require system authorization through a secondary background process known as a "setuid tool," providing fast, fluid, and secure execution of the low-level tasks that lie at its core. This method is highly recommended by Apple and designated the "best [most secure] way" to perform privileged operations.
System Requirements:
- Runs on Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher, including any version of 10.4 (Tiger) or 10.5 (Leopard)
- Snow Leopard compatible
- universal binary that runs on Intel and PowerPC
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