What is the best way or method (s) to clean up my MacBook Pro? Do you recommend any 3rd party applications such as "Cocktail" to do it for me?

I am looking at clearing cache, speeding things, clearing out junk etc

Please don't use any third party app to cleanup a Mac.
OS X takes care of that itself.
For more on this:    http://www.thesafemac.com/mpg/
Best.

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