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Socks is a collection of useful utilities to help clean, troubleshoot, optimize, maintain, and customize your Mac. Many utility apps are packed to the gills with trivial or useless features -- not Socks. Socks gives you the features you want and need without the bloat you don't. Not only is Socks just the right mix for modern Mac maintenance, it's also wonderfully designed inside and out and has several practical and unique pleasantries to make your maintenance experience as smooth as possible.
What's New
Version 2.0.1:
- Fixed an issue causing Socks to crash if a license file was double-clicked while the initial Sparkle configuration dialog was open.
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility
- 64-bit support
- Revamped interface
- Log file cleaning
- Binary file cleaning
- Localizations cleaning
- More cache cleaning options
- Locate database rebuilding
- Whatis database rebuilding
- Memory optimization via swap relocation
- Power management configuration
- More interface configuration options
- Secure emptying The Trash
- Fast file find
- Showing/hiding files
- Relaunching processes
- System info reports
- Active process info
Version 2.0.1:
- Fixed an issue causing Socks to crash if a license file was double-clicked while the initial Sparkle configuration dialog was open.
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility
- 64-bit support
- Revamped interface
- Log file cleaning
- Binary file cleaning
- Localizations cleaning
- More cache cleaning more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
Socks User Discussion (Write a Review)
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Socks is a collection of useful utilities to help clean, troubleshoot, optimize, maintain, and customize your Mac. Many utility apps are packed to the gills with trivial or useless features -- not Socks. Socks gives you the features you want and need without the bloat you don't. Not only is Socks just the right mix for modern Mac maintenance, it's also wonderfully designed inside and out and has several practical and unique pleasantries to make your maintenance experience as smooth as possible.
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Can you add it, please?
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Alessandro82 reviewed on 05 Nov 2011
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Thanks
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I really hope we see more options in the future from Socks.App in the 'Interface' section. Oh, the options!!!!! I love them! More, please?
Thank you!
Mic
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I didn't see anything special when I used Socks, it has a few unique functions but lacks some of the functions found in similar tools. For instance Socks has no manual way to remove system or user logs unless you do a cron job.
Try it and if you don't like it there's lots of alternatives!
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Healthy doses of cynicism and skepticism are good things to nurture.
Forewarned is forearmed.
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Micg reviewed on 12 Oct 2009
I've been using Socks since 1.2.3, and I can say it's been the most stable utility for Mac OS X I've ever used. It does everything I need + more. I recently had some issues with some corrupted files, I ran the Preferences utility and it locked up, unfortunately. After I restarted Socks it corrected the issue =]. Thank goodness! I've had other utilities that I've used in the past and I've trashed most of them. I had lost almost all faith in Mac OS X maintenance utilities, until one day I found Socks by googling accidentally. My maintenance routine and stability of it has never been the same! - It's more stable than it's ever been! To the Dev: Thank you and keep up the great job!
Also, thank you for supporting PPC Macs, even down to 10.3.9 (Which I still use and totally enjoy)!!
No, there still is no documentataion, but remember, google is your friend!
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I know how hard it is to write software; I do it daily (it's one of my jobs). I am not criticizing the reviews or the developer. My point was, most software of this kind does not have lengthy glowing reviews from almost all reviewers, and that struck me as odd. I hope Socks gets better and better with time and the developer makes a lot of money from it. In its present form, there are better alternatives for Macintosh maintenance and troubleshooting than Socks. I hope that changes. Competition is good.
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Christian Macey
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about to register another Socks App. on another Mac.
I've never had any problems downloading MKD sofware. Honestly...
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Just because all the big shots aren't reviewing it, doesn't mean you
should be criticizing our reviews does it?
drbokko rated on 26 Sep 2011