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Cocktail 3.8 brings over 100 new features
Cocktail 3.8, the Tiger Edition of the indispensable Mac utility, brings with it a host of new features. Not least amongst these new features is a gorgeous UI overhaul, which makes Cocktail not only useful but a pleasure to use. For the uninitiated Cocktail is a small app that lets you control a number of things about your Mac, which normally are beyond the powers of the everyday Mac user.
Beyond the new look, Cocktail 3.8 boasts over 100 new features, including:
- Fine grained control of Spotlight (you can enable/disable Spotlight for disks)
- Lots of new logging
- New ways to tweak the UI of a variety of Apple apps (including Safari, Mail, and Finder)
Thanks, nevrozel.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
FrankMcBilboWinker said 1:15PM on 6-19-2007
So aside from running scripts for me, why do I need to spend the 14.95 on this wonderful application again?
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Daniel D said 1:22PM on 6-19-2007
pfft they couldn't even spell "trash" right, from the website:
"• Force empty Tras"
Disgusting!
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Frank said 1:41PM on 6-19-2007
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.
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Dave P said 2:00PM on 6-19-2007
Is this application preferred over Onyx?
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Dimebag said 2:06PM on 6-19-2007
Yeah, everybody knows "pffft" is spelled with 3 f's… Idiot.
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[redacted] said 3:26PM on 6-19-2007
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
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Jon said 5:46PM on 6-19-2007
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.
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FrankMcBilboWinker said 8:07PM on 6-19-2007
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.
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Jon said 9:49PM on 6-19-2007
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.)
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Andru said 1:23PM on 6-20-2007
can somebody tell me how this is better than either Onyx and TinkerTool which do basically the same thing and are free?
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