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SOFTWARE OF THE DAY - COCKTAIL & COCONUTIDENTITYCARD

Hi All,

Starting today, I'm adding the "Key Combination of the Day" to these messages. There are many, many useful Mac keystroke shortcuts that improve your productivity but learning them can be overwhelming. By my presenting just a single one every day, you get 24 hours to practice so that each one can sink in!

Key Combination of the Day

Command-Tab

Press

-Tab (Command-Tab) to quickly switch from one open application to another. While holding down the Command key, continue to press the Tab key to jump to the application you want then release the keys. Holding down the Shift key at the same time selects applications in the reverse direction.

Shareware of the Day:

Cocktail - A perfect mixture for Mac OS X.

Cocktail is an award winning general purpose utility for Mac OS X. It is a smooth and powerful digital toolset with a variety of practical features that simplifies the use of advanced UNIX functions and helps hundreds of thousands of Mac users around the world to get the most out of their computers.

The application serves up a scrumptious mix of maintenance tools and interface tweaks, all accessible via a comprehensive graphical interface. Most of Cocktail's major features are arranged in five basic categories. In addition, a Pilot lets you clean, repair and optimize your system with one click of the button.

Features:

Disks

Enable or disable journaling
Repair disk permissions
Set disk spindown time

System

Prebind/re-prebind the entire system or selected folder
Run cron scripts
Change startup mode
Modify sleep settings for portable computers
Force empty trash
Rebuild Launch Services database
Update whatis and locate databases

Files

Delete locked or inaccessible items
Delete invisible DS Store files
Clean system, user and Internet caches
View, rotate, print and save logs
Create symbolic links
Recreate Mac OS 9 Desktop alias
Lock or unlock files and folders

Network

Change speed, duplex and MTU
Optimize network settings for eight most common connections or apply the custom optimization
Configure the built-in Mac OS X file server

Interface

Customize look and features of Finder, Dock and login window
Change screenshot file format
Set window resize speed
Modify hidden settings of Exposé, Mail, Safari and other applications

Pilot

Easily optimize your system
Schedule maintenance tasks

More info and download link here:

<http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/>

Freeware of the Day:

coconutIdentityCard - Tells you where and when your Mac, iPod or any other Apple-Product was born.

What is coconutIdentityCard?

coconutIdentityCard is a small app that reads out where and when your Mac and your iPod were built by Apple. Just plug in your iPod while the app is running and it will show you the information about your iPod instantly. Because it's UniversalBinary, it will run also on the new Intel-Based-Macs.

Format of the date: dd.mm.yyyy

You also can enter any 11-character Apple serial number and the app will identify the build-location and the date when the product was built.

New since 2.1: coconutIdentityCard is able to check your serials against internet-databases of stolen Apple products. (A negative result is no guarantee that it isn't stolen). Currently coconutIdentityCard checks the database of www.powermax.com - if you know other databases, please send me an email with a link to the database - I will try to add it soon.

More info and download link here:

<http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutidentitycard/index.html>

Regards...
Gordon