The 'Terminal' button is welcomed as some of the UNIX features of IceCast malfunction or they have a slow feedback, so the Terminal is a better alternative. The last buttons from the top bar are 'Terminal' and 'Console' which open the OS X system utilities with the same name. IceClean has some sort of displaying error of the manuals, so it's recommended the usage of the Terminal till this will be fixed. This runs the 'man' command which returns the manual of a certain UNIX application. The 'Unix Pages' button also provides a nice frontend for a command line application. These are also provided by the application menus. Basically these are bunch of UNIX scripts which can do various maintenance tasks. The 'Shortcuts' menu provides you a list of 'Pure UNIX Power'. The hibernation support is decent, but to be honest I rather prefer LighMe instead. IceClean supports these power state modes: Sleep, which is the default sleep mode, Deep Hibernate, Deep Hibernate with Virtual Memory support, and the old Fast Sleep method. If the feature is unsupported by your hardware, then the application disables Safe Sleep in order to avoid any kind of trouble. The hardware must have support for ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) in order to be able to use this power state. The 'Hibernate' functionality reveals the hibernate support, also known as Safe Sleep, which is built in Mac OS X 10.4 since 10.4.3. However, this support is limited to quick/full erase of a rewritable medium, or the writing of a 2GB RAM Disk. The 'Burn' button reveals the burn support which IceClean has. If this occurs, don't use the 'Force Quit' functionality unless it gets stuck or you really want to. While running any of these console applications, IceClean may be a little bit unresponsive. IceClean also provides you a nicer way that the Terminal does. Using this feature requires some patience.īy clicking the 'Whois' button you have access to another command line interface program: 'whois'. The application might look locked up for some time if the route to the host which you would like to trace is a long one and it comes with lots of hops. The application doesn't provide you any output in the same way the console does. 'Trace' is another network tool which is also available in the shell under the name of 'traceroute'. This functionality is available by default in OS X, but IceClean provides an easier way. The 'Netinfo' button runs the 'netstat' console application and it displays the result within its window. The functionality is also provided by the menus, but this method is a little bit more unusable than the main window. These buttons are placed on the top of its window. The interface of the program uses multiple buttons which provide you the functionality. Check them out to see which ones best meet your needs.IceClean (formerly known as Polizei) is a maintenance application which features some extra functionality. All these apps have some overlap, and most of them have some unique features. The current version supports Snow Leopard, while version 2.5 supports OS X 10.4. It doesn't offer a lot of feedback other than a spinning gear, so caution is the word of the day. Remember that like any utility, it's doing some deep digging into the Unix core of Mac OS X, so it isn't a good idea to force quit the app when it's running. There are a lot of other functions and you can check them at the IceClean website. The app can also force the trash can to empty, force eject optical media, and it can clean up many problems with Spotlight. The app also has some network utilities for the more technically minded, like traceroute, netstat and whois. Everything from triggering background maintenance tasks that normally get done in the middle of the night, to permission repair, preference file verification and cache clearing. We took a look at IceClean a couple of years ago, and it's been updated for Snow Leopard. IceClean does a whole basket of system fix-ups and the price is zippo. OnyX is a good free app with similar capabilities. Cocktail is a great example of a paid app that is very complete but it's not free. Some are free, some cost a little bit, either through a purchase or shareware fee. There are a raft of utilities that provide a front end for the built-in Unix system tasks.
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