Press release from PRMac.com:

Maintain is proud to announce the release of Cocktail 4.0.3 (Leopard Edition). Cocktail 4.0.3 (Leopard Edition) is the latest maintenance update for Cocktail (Leopard Edition). It adds Mac OS X 10.5.2 compatibility, improves network optimization presets, fixes a bug causing Safari RSS reader to report NSPOSIXErrorDomain:2 error, adds support for Firefox 3, contains updated Help files and resolves a number of other minor issues discovered in the previous release. The update is strongly recommended for all users of Cocktail (Leopard Edition).

Cocktail 4.0.3 (Leopard Edition) is distributed as a Universal Binary and runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. Cocktail 4.0.3 (Leopard Edition) requires Mac OS X / Mac OS X Server 10.5 or later and is tested for compatibility with Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server 10.5.2.

Cocktail 4.0.1 (Tiger Edition) for Mac OS X 10.4.x and Cocktail 3.7 (Panther Edition) for Mac OS X 10.3.x are available for download from our website.

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As one of the suckers with a Capital One card, I took interest in their offer of a card with a custom image as the background. While I considered the logo of BGM (as well as a panorama of the inside of my kidneys, taken from an old xray), I was pleased to see how …

A follow up to my recent post about backup software. Giving this a try today also.

Freeridecoding announces a major update for its straightforward backup tool, SmartBackup v2.2. SmartBackup is the ideal application to perform all kinds of daily backups to hard drives, network sharepoints, webDAV, usb sticks, iPods etc.

From a smart efficient document backup to a full bootable …

Former Apple Evangelist Guy Kawasaki offers his thoughts on the Macbook Air, the blogosphere, and talks about his new online venture, Alltop. Having spent over 25 years in Silicon Valley, Guy Kawasaki has seen a lot of trends come and go. He was in on the ground floor of the launch of the original Macintosh, and went on to have …

The recently released Mac OS X 10.5.2 (Leopard) upgrade caused the premiere password manager 1Password to stop functioning in Safari. Today, Agile Web Solutions announced that 1Password version 2.5.11 is now available to fix this issue, as well as adding support for the Firefox 3 nightly releases. This update is free to all 1Password customers.

What is 1Password?

I won’t bore you with rehashing the same old stuff from every other site on the web, but I will tell you how to use this on your Mac.

Here are the command line switches available in the app. Below that: how to use them. Enjoy!

CAVEAT: Not my issue of you break something, seriously. Pay attention, follow the …

Yazsoft announced today the immediate availability of Speed Download 5. Developed exclusively for Mac OS X, Speed Download is “an easy to use, powerful and reliable download manager”.

Speed Download sets a higher standard for download manager innovation, and is expressly designed to be a central, unified hub for almost all downloading and file transfer activities.

This new upgrade continues to enhance and tweak the performance of Speed Download to ensure utmost reliability. Version 5 includes tons of key improvements, and is a recommended upgrade for all Speed Download customers.

Some Key New Features in Version 5:

FirewireDirect (Akumen Inc), a leading supplier and manufacturer of FireWire800, eSATA (Serial-ATA) storage cluster hardware and RAID subsystems announces the new ‘HSB-V’ -Touted as the most configurable 4-Bay storage solution on the market and also offers the best value available.

The HSB-V 4-Bay is configurable with five different types of host interfaces: 4x eSATA, 1x Multilane Infiniband, 1x Port Multiplier (PM), 1x PM w/RAID or as paired FireWire800/USBv2.0 Combo ports. When utilized with available PCIe 8x RAID controller the HSB-V can easily be configured as a RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 or as a JBOD.

The PCIe hardware RAID controller also offers features like Variable Sector Size (VSS) breaking the 2TB limitation and making it possible to have logical disk sizes of up to 40TB. The HSB-V is also available with an integrated 50GB Blu-Ray HD Burner or Reader, which is supported, natively with MacOSX 10.5. If selected for Windows, a software download link is bundled.

St. Clair Software announces the immediate availability of Default Folder X 4.0.1, which boosts the speed, compatibility and polish of its award-winning utility for enhancing Open and Save dialogs.

About Default Folder X:
Awarded Macworld Magazine’s Editors’ Choice Award for Best System Enhancement Utility, Default Folder X makes Open and Save dialogs “work the way they should.” It enhances the file dialogs in all Mac OS X applications, making them work as quickly as you do. Custom keyboard shortcuts put your favorite and recent folders at your fingertips. Pop-up menus let you navigate your folders and open Finder windows. Previews and Spotlight comments are there when you need them. Open, save, and get back to work: Default Folder X is workflow for the rest of us.

What’s New:

For those of you living under a rock or who have been disconnected from the internet for the last 12 hours: Apple has finally released 10.5.2, which contains all of the goodness seen here on BGM a few weeks ago.

Enjoy!

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