disk trial software / shareware for mac

Enhancements:

• Initial public release.

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Disk Watcher automates checking your disks for corruption. With Disk Watcher you dont need to remember to regularly check your disks to prevent serious problems.
Disk Watcher will keep an eye on your disks and warn you when a disk has problems and needs to be fixed.
The disk checking itself is done by Disk First Aid - Disk Watcher takes care of the automation of it all. DiskWatcher will inform you if any disk problems are found and keeps a log of all it did. Optionally, Disk Watcher can even respond to disk errors by having custom "actions" launched. This makes Disk Watcher a very powerful tool.
The idea is damage prevention. Too often people wait with running disk repair utilities until it is too late. Still fixable disk problems are ignored, new problems get stacked on top of the old ones, and finally the system breaks down and Disk First Aid cant fix it anymore. Then they have to run out and buy a disk repair utility (like DiskWarrior, TechTool Pro or Norton Disk Doctor) and can only hope that it can still fix things. In the mean time, the disk cannot be used safely.
These days, Apples Disk First Aid is quite good at repairing problems as long as they arent too severe. So the only thing you really need to do is run Disk First Aid on a regular basis, not waiting until youre having problems. Disk First Aid comes with the Mac OS, for free, so why not use it? Because its too much work for most people - you need to remember to regularly launch Disk First Aid, select all the disks you want to check, and then tell Disk First Aid to check them.
With Disk Watcher you can afford to be lazy ;) You just install Disk Watcher and dont worry about disk corruption anymore. Disk Watcher will inform you when there is a problem.
Enhancements:
- If the startup disk was busy and couldnt be checked, Disk First Aid was quit instead of left running. Fixed.
- If DFA encountered a diskproblem it cannot fix, Disk Watcher would give up. Disk Watcher now correctly logs the error and continues.
- When upgrading, the installer could accidentally revert your Disk Watcher settings to the default settings. Fixed.
- If you trash the preferencess file ("DW Config" in the "Disk Watcher Preferences Folder") Disk Watcher will now install a fresh copy the next time it runs.
- You can now define how often Disk Watcher will retry to check a busy disk.
- Placing the text of error messages on the clipboard is now optional and is off by default. You should probably only switch it on if you are having problems with Disk Watcher and want to send the author the error message you are getting. Like all other options, this option can be switched on in Disk Watchers configuration file ("DW Config", in the Disk Watcher Preferences folder). This option only works under Mac OS 8.5 and above.
- Made some improvements to upgrade process.
- Added a note about a conflict with "Control PPP" to the "known problems" chapter.

Requirements:
PowerPC, Mac OS 7.0 or later.

Enhancements:

• Support for Navigation Services
• A new consolidated view of the main scanning window and the Pie Charts display,along with the new Bar Charts display
• New network management capabilities
• Improved performance

Requirements:
None

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.2 or later.

Ram Disk Creator is a tool to create Ram Disks. This feature was available in Mac OS 9 and below, but since Apple released Mac OS X this capability, unfortunately, disappeared from our Macs. Ram Disk Creator brings them back!
Its pretty straight forward to figure out whether using a RAM disk is worth it. A ram disk offers the possibility to have the FASTEST DISK your Mac could ever have.
Therefore its the best solution for applications which require frequent disk accesses.
Moreover Ram Disks are very useful for Powerbooks and iBooks because using a Ram Disk instead of the hard disk means using MUCH less power, therefore dramatically increase battery life. For instance a Powerbook can play 2 hours DivX by placing the movie on a ram disk because there will be only few disk accesses.
Version restrictions:
- Startup delay.
Enhancements:
- Possibility to mount the ram disk at any path.
- New software update.
- Memory leak fixed.
- Mac OS X Sever compatibility improved.

Requirements:
System 7.1 or later.

Enhancements:
Version 1.0.4 fixes several minor bugs, including correct handling of AppleEvents when shutting down the computer, and also improves the display of disk summary information in each window.