![]() ![]() We're thrilled to have started a Facebook group and Twitteraccount so everyone who's interested can keep up to date on what's happening at Koingo Software, and receive exclusive offers. To obtain a free or paid upgrade, customers must use the Upgrades Form on our web site. A lot of indie houses don't do that these days. I will say though, I do greatly appreciate how freely they offer access to 10.4/5/6-compatible versions of their apps. Upgrades are free for buyers within the last six months, or $9.95 for older users. And for most of the functionality I'd use MacPilot for, I personally use Onyx and/or TinkerTool. If you've wanted to enhance Safari, change the appearance or behavior of the Dock, optimize your computer for broadband, show hidden files in the Finder, toggle system animations, run common maintenance operations, tweak advanced kernel flags, or make your desktop your screensaver, MacPilot is for you! With over 1,200 features you're bound to find more than just a few tweaks or tools that tickle your fancy. The man page says: -currentHost Restricts preferences operations to the host the user is currently logged in on. My understanding is that -host hostname is used with shared/roaming profiles, so I didn’t test it. Safari preference on Snow Leopard (it still works, contrary to my previous beliefs.). The man page for defaults was last updated and is the same in Snow Leopard, Mojave, and Catalina. MacPilot comes with a free 15-day trial, and can be purchased for new buyers for only $19.95! A more polished commercial alternative with more features. Many of which you may use only once and others you will use with some degree of regularity.By Koingo App Update, MacPilot, NewsletterĪfter months of hard work, we're proud to announce MacPilot 5! With over 150 new enhancements including Retina and Cocoa support, tweak Snow Leopard through Mountain Lion with ease. Otherwise you will be missing out on some other functions. So even though you will inevitably end up with some overlapping functionalities, my attitude is "so what". MacPilot and Tinkertool are both configuration tools and each provides unique functions but where Tinkertool has dozens of basic system UI settings MacPilot has roughly 1,000 otherwise hidden preferences for OS X and the various OS X apps.DW is unquestionably the most widely used but I have and use both TTP and DG. In 2011 the early MacBook Pros came with macOS 10.6.6, Snow Leopard, the late 2011 models came with Lion 10.7.2 but from what I’m told these late model MacBook Pros are capable of having Snow Leopard installed even when Lion was pre-installed. In point of fact for any given situation any one of the three might be able to repair a damaged volume one or both of the others would fail on and TTP or DG will perform tests and optimization functions not available in DW. Then again, if you put a value on a single tweak, say 0.50, 1200 tweaks would cost 600 bucks. It's hard for me to visualize the value I guess. TechTool Pro and Drive Genius will both repair the volume structure and both offer a suite of hardware tests and diagnostics. 75 for a household and 30 bucks per computer. Well Ill get MacPilot and work on repairing my ACLs then. Diskwarrior is unparalleled in repairing the volume structure on a drive. So I installed the developers Wine build on my Snow Leopard after searching the internet for. TechTool Pro, Drive Genius, and Diskwarrior are in an entirely different class as each uses its own proprietary tools to perform its volume repair and system testing functions.if it has the functionality can you find it in the apps menu structure?.in a few cases does the particular app have the specific functionality you are needing and.Personal preference for the look and feel of one over another.Since they all use the same Unix commands to do their thing no one is any better than another, but each offers some unique features (for example TinkerTool System has wonderful facilities for custom tailoring Access Control Lists ). MacPilot can enable and disable hidden features in Mac OS X, optimize and repair your system, and perform numerous routine maintenance operations. These include Cocktail, OnyX, the various cache cleaners, TinkerTool System and others. There is one class of apps that do little more than provide a GUI front end for exactly the same underlying GUI "housekeeping" commands.You are mixing entirely different classes of apps in your list.
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