Socks 1.0.2

Socks is a powerful, dynamic and secure maintenance and optimization solution for Mac OS X, built to provide the following core benefits to you and your computer.
Main features:
- Maintain data structures relied on by your system and applications to keep things running safely and smoothly.
- Optimize various system features to improve general performance, save hard drive space, and conserve RAM.
- Troubleshoot odd behavior, crashes, and the spinning beach ball.
- Generally personalize your computer to better fit your needs.
Customization and Automation
- Socks provides a rich set of expertly-implemented features, with just the ones you need and without the ones you dont. Where Socks really excels is in how it allows you to fully tailor and automate your maintenance experience:
- Configurations: Routines (or, Tasks) use Configurations that modify exactly how they do their jobs. Socks comes with a variety of easy-to-understand and convenient configurations built-in, and helps you easily edit and create your own.
- Queues: The Queue feature can be used easily to create lists of tasks to run in succession, allowing you to leave your computer to perform a variety of tasks on its own.
- Schedules: Queues can be scheduled to run at specific times of the day and repeat at specific intervals. This allows your computer to run maintnenace without requiring intervention on your behalf. Socks can even run queues automatically in the event your system crashes.
Internal Design and Security
Socks provides key maintenance and optimization features in a uniquely elegant and meticulously designed interface, and this design philosophy is equally reflected in Sockss internals. Socks has been scrupulously designed to provide the best reliability and expandability. Thorough error-checking makes Socks highly robust and debuggable, while a Carbon setuid tool provides fast, fluid, and secure execution of the low-level tasks that lie at its core. Unrivaled by other methods, Socks executes tasks that require system authorization through a secondary background process. While this method is more involved to design and implement than other more commonly used approaches, it is highly recommended by Apple and designated the best [most secure] way to perform privileged operations.
Enhancements:
- Fixed a bug preventing the daily cron job from running for some people
- Fixed a bug preventing the main window from appearing for some people
- Other lesser bugfixes and improvements
New Features over System Optimizer X:
- Complete re-design and re-write in Cocoa
- Highly secure execution using a setuid tool
- New highly dynamic configurations system
- New highly dynamic Queue feature
- New highly dynamic , multi-entity Schedule feature
- Automatic hard restart maintenance
- Live progress updates for most tasks
- Auto-restart
- New Volumes feature with fsckhfs volume structure verifying and repairing + more
- New Spotlight feature for optimizing and customizing volume settings
- More thorough and highly customizable cache cleaning feature
- New Preferences feature checks for, reports, and can remove corrupt preference files
- More thorough and customizable internet optimization feature
- New Privacy feature allows for cleaning of many activity records
- New Interface feature allows for customization of many hidden Mac OS interface options
- New Force empty Trash feature
- Many, many other new features
- A universal and more verbose Log for low-level and task output