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Product Description:
Socks is a powerful, dynamic and secure optimization, maintenance and customization solution for Mac OS X. Socks allows you to:
- Optimize system features to improve general performance, save hard drive space, and conserve RAM.
- Maintain data structures relied on by your system and applications to keep them running safely and smoothly.
- Troubleshoot crashes, odd behavior and the "spinning beach ball."
- Generally customize your computer to better fit your needs.
What's new in this version:
- Fixed an implementation error that caused inconsistent results when verifying the system startup disk
- Minor bugfixes
- Other miscellaneous improvements
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
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS 10.3.9 or later
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Sorry for the four identical entries - Version: 1.0.2, 9/16/2007 09:31AM PST
chamandy
Version Tracker's "leave comment" function went a little haywire...
Beware of this developer! 
- Version: 1.0.2, 9/16/2007 09:20AM PST
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chamandy
I would caution anyone considering buying this software because when a problem arises with it, the developer stops responding to support requests. After I ran the new version of SOCKS, it wiped out my Mac's ability to use keychains properly. Requests to the developer on how to fix the problem created by SOCKS have been ignored. It still isn't working properly and I have no idea how to fix it.
It was suggested to me by a Mac journalist on another site that I might have to do a clean install of the OS. I suspect that the developer is panicking either because he doesn't know how to solve the problem or he doesn't want such a serious, intensive fix associated with his software.
Keep this in mind when considering buying any of his software, not just SOCKS.
It was suggested to me by a Mac journalist on another site that I might have to do a clean install of the OS. I suspect that the developer is panicking either because he doesn't know how to solve the problem or he doesn't want such a serious, intensive fix associated with his software.
Keep this in mind when considering buying any of his software, not just SOCKS.
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- The Blade
Huh? - Version: 1.0.2, 8/9/2007 10:41AM PST
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weasel-boy
Are you kidding? This interface is just as cryptic as Onyx is...maybe even more so....because it dumps so much behind second pulldown "pages".
What all of these little maintenance apps really need is some sort of demystification...ie: contextual explanations as to what each process is about to do to your machine.
OK...show of hands....how many of you have never pushed one button or another on one of these things because you could never get a reasonable explanation as to what the function really did? You know...something....that isn't buried in a badly written manual or simply not there at all.
That's what I'm talking about.
What all of these little maintenance apps really need is some sort of demystification...ie: contextual explanations as to what each process is about to do to your machine.
OK...show of hands....how many of you have never pushed one button or another on one of these things because you could never get a reasonable explanation as to what the function really did? You know...something....that isn't buried in a badly written manual or simply not there at all.
That's what I'm talking about.
