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This is the free version of CLIX. It's identical to the ACP version save for features proprietary to the ACP Framework. The ACP version is tightly integrated into the ACP and thus leaner and more effective by an order of magnitude over its free counterpart. CLIX was built with the help of the ACP. A project such as CLIX may be practically impossible otherwise.

[For more information on the ACP click here.]

There are two versions of CLIX in this package.

The 32-bit version of CLIX for OS X 10.4 and 10.5 and also for 32-bit machines running 10.6.
The 64-bit version of CLIX for 64-bit machines running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and 10.7 Lion.

The free version of CLIX is 'freeware' - it's not 'postcardware' or 'beerware' or 'donationware' or anything else. It's free. One thing the authors ask is that you show more discretion when next hunting for a tool to remedy your computer issues and not be taken in by the cheap products polluting the market and separating you from your money.

Invest in confidence in yourself and in your ability to solve your own computer issues without further financial outlays. With the power of CLIX you have your entire system at your fingertips - use it!

Don't forget there are people online always willing to help. The Rixstep Forum is a totally uncensored forum open 24 hours a day. Although registration is required to do more than browse one of the over one dozen forums, privacy is a high priority and no personal information is ever exposed to anyone at any time. There are many industry professionals who regularly stop by to help people out. Just make sure you 'do the research' before you pose your questions!

CLIX is intentionally built as a standards compliant OS X Cocoa document based application. You access 'documents' much like you would with any other document editor. When you find a command you want to edit or run, you double-click it and bring up the CLIX command sheet. After that it's just to click 'Run'.

You'll find an assortment of the command files in the directory 'Command Files' in this distribution. They're divided into a number of categories for your ease of use and retrieval. The idea is to add commands and command files of your own. You start fast: you have close to 1,900 commands each for both 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard or later.

You'll find it possible - and without further financial outlays - to suddenly:

Copy the contents of your iPod to your hard drive.
Run your periodic maintenance scripts (if you really want).
Clean out all your caches in the event of configuration issues.
Turn Spotlight completely off and obliterate all its hidden databases.
Enable and disable Dashboard.
Tweak your settings for a number of standard Apple OS X applications.
Remove all .DS_Store and other 'junk' files from your entire system.
Remove unwanted 'localisation' files from your entire system.
Protect your system against present (eg torrent trojans) and future malware attacks.
Access the previously inaccessible 80,000 files on your system that were hidden from you.

There's a reason CLIX has been featured in computer magazines the world over and several times been voted the #1 power tool for OS X. It's used by thousands of engineers at Apple, the US military command in Iraq, the Pentagon, CERN, Lawrence Berkeley, the US Air Force, Los Alamos, at least ten NASA centres, MIT, and innumerable institutions of higher learning across the globe.

And you're about to find out why.