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# General

Configure Open Recent:

Most document-based applications have an "Open Recent" item in the File menu. This menu can be configured system-wide, allowing you to enable and disable the menu as well as set the number of recent documents to show.

Display sheets:

A sheet is a dialog which is attached to a window, an example is the Save dialogs which slides out from the top of the window. Cocktail allows you to configure the speed of this animation.

Tool tip delay:

Changes tool tip display delay. Tool tips are little floating yellow tags of explanatory text that appear when you move the mouse pointer over an application button or other onscreen item.

Disable spelling correction:

OS X comes with a built in spellchecker and autocorrection system, similar to iOS, which Cocktail can disable.

Disable Character Picker:

An iOS-style Character Picker allows easier access to non-standard characters. You can access the character picker by pressing and holding an alphabetic key on your keyboard, however the Picker overrides the keyboard's repeat functionality. By activating this option in Cocktail you disable the Character Picker and restore the repeat function.

Disable the New Window animation:

This disables the zooming animation shown when a new window is displayed on the screen.

Disable rubber band scrolling:

This disables an overscrolling effect that runs out of the scrollable region revealing the linen background before snapping back into the scrollable region. This setting is not compatible with Safari.

Do not allow Help Viewer window to stay on top:

Makes Help Viewer window behave like a normal window in OS X by preventing it from floating on top of other applications.

Do not display CrashReporter dialog box when applications crash:

Screenshot file format:

Changes default screenshot file format. The following image file formats are available:

- GIF
- JPEG
- JPEG-2000
- Microsoft BMP
- PDF
- Photoshop
- PNG
- TGA
- TIFF

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) lossless image compression file format is the default OS X screenshot format. You will need to restart the computer in order for changes to take effect.

Disable shadow in window captures:

Disables the drop-shadow in OS X window screenshots. You will need to restart the computer in order for changes to take effect.

Default name:

Change default screenshot filename. You will need to restart the computer in order for changes to take effect.

Remove date and timestamp:

Remove date and timestamp from screenshot filenames. You will need to restart the computer in order for changes to take effect.

Save location:

Specify the saving path for screenshots. You will need to restart the computer in order for changes to take effect.