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Product Description:
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 10.5 (Leopard), and is available as Universal Application for PowerPC and Intel Macs.
Key Features:
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
What's new in this version:
This is a maintenance and performance update. It provides an entirely improved Optimization section, whereby the Network Optimizer increases the download speed even more, and the Virtual Memory Optimizer frees up more hard disk space on the boot volume. Beside that, it provides many other improvements and some minor bug fixes.
- Faster application launch on Intel Macs
- Increased application performance on Intel Macs
- The Memory Optimizer now also moves the 'sleepimage' to the swap partition (10.5)
- The Memory Optimizer fixes eventual problems with the main Volumes directory (10.5)
- The Network Optimizer settings are improved for an even better download performance (10.5)
- The file deletion process now can be interrupt anytime
- The Maintenance section provides an improved cache files deletion (10.5)
- Resolves an issue when running the Maintenance Pilot in the Terminal (10.5)
- Includes many other minor improvements and resolved issues
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or higher
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- Version: 3.5.0, 1/13/2009 11:05AM PST
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Clams McShrew
I have tried, and purchased, so many of these maintenance/optimization apps. Some of them are fairly good. Some of them are a mixed bag. Some are free. Some are ridiculously, unnecessarily complicated. And some are actually a bit dangerous, and tend to create problems, that are a pain to fix. But Xupport is safe, fast, thorough and elegant.
I've been using Xupport for the past few years now, and I can not even say one bad word about it. A good example of just how good, powerful, and simple to use, a quality OS X utility app can (and should) be. This is by far the best of the lot. Kudos. *****
I've been using Xupport for the past few years now, and I can not even say one bad word about it. A good example of just how good, powerful, and simple to use, a quality OS X utility app can (and should) be. This is by far the best of the lot. Kudos. *****
fascinating... - Version: 3.5.0, 9/4/2008 07:33PM PST
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plaintiger
i've just tested at http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ with Xupport's network optimization enabled and disabled, for both cable and satellite connections (i have cable, but it's faster by default than a lot of cable connections) and discovered that my 'net connection is actually faster with Xupport's optimization *off* than with it on.
your mileage may vary. i recommend testing your own connection with Xupport's network optimization on and off before drawing any conclusions from this...i thought i should pass it along though...
your mileage may vary. i recommend testing your own connection with Xupport's network optimization on and off before drawing any conclusions from this...i thought i should pass it along though...
I informed the developer in May 2008, however never received a reply, despite my reminding him at least once. So off the remaining files go from my harddisk. There are enough similar programs around that work.