Cocktail 3.8 brings over 100 new features

can somebody tell me how this is better than either Onyx and TinkerTool which do basically the same thing and are free?

Actually, my post was sponsored by nobody but myself. My only point was that I can see spending a few bucks to save on non-essential tasks. While the UNIX novice might indeed learn something from going to Terminal to edit a Preference file, it might not be something s/he would like to invest the time in. If a company wants to profit by adding value to an existing product, all the power to them, even if value is in the eye of the beholder.

(Another thought: if, for some reason, I wanted to buy a PC, I could make my own computer for a lot less than it would cost me to purchase a Dell. But, I choose to "outsource" that task to the Dell folks who know PC building a lot better than I do, and can do it for a lot less effort on my part. It's quicker and easier for me, even though it might cost me a few bucks.)

Jon your post was sponsored by Cocktail. The point is that there are companies that want to profit of the fact that nobody wants to find these things out for themselves. Look at Disco and Burn, they are charging you to use your own burner. I wish I had thought of that.

You could take that to an extreme and say "Why buy OS X when it just implements features that *already exist* in FreeBSD?" I'm pretty happy poking around in the Terminal, but I can see that it could easily be worth $15 of someone's time to not have to learn a bunch of UNIX commands and Preference file tweaks.

To disable spotlight on a drive:
create a new file at the root of that drive
rename it .metadata_never_index
logout/in (sometimes reboot is needed)

To do this in one line on the terminal:
touch /Volumes/"name of drive"/.metadata_never_index

Every feature on cocktail, onyx etc is already a function of OS X.

see: http://rixstep.com/4/2/cocktail,01.shtml

I know people are afraid of the terminal, but paying for functional that *already exists* in the operating system is a bit extreme

Yeah, everybody knows "pffft" is spelled with 3 f's… Idiot.

Is this application preferred over Onyx?

Daniel,

You're making a fool of yourself criticizing an individual over a typo in a blog comment. You'd be a lot nicer if you simply had sent the author a little note.

And, please, check your own posts & comments before you point fingers.

pfft they couldn't even spell "trash" right, from the website:

"• Force empty Tras"

Disgusting!

So aside from running scripts for me, why do I need to spend the 14.95 on this wonderful application again?