If you are looking for previous editions of Cocktail, here are the download links to releases that are compatible with all Mac OS X, OS X and macOS versions from Mac OS X 10.5 to macOS 12.0.
Cocktail (Monterey Edition) for macOS 12.0
https://www.maintain.se/downloads/Cocktail15ME.dmg
Cocktail (Big Sur Edition) for macOS 11.0
https://www.maintain.se/downloads/Cocktail14BSE.dmg
Cocktail (Catalina Edition) for macOS 10.15
https://www.maintain.se/downloads/Cocktail13CE.dmg
Cocktail (Mojave Edition) for macOS 10.14
https://www.maintain.se/downloads/Cocktail12ME.dmg
Cocktail (High Sierra Edition) for macOS 10.13
https://www.maintain.se/downloads/Cocktail11HSE.dmg
Cocktail (Sierra Edition) for macOS 10.12
https://www.maintain.se/downloads/Cocktail10SE.dmg
Cocktail (El Capitan Edition) for OS X 10.11
https://www.maintain.se/downloads/Cocktail9ECE.dmg
Cocktail (Yosemite Edition) for OS X 10.10
https://www.maintain.se/downloads/Cocktail8YE.dmg
Cocktail (Mavericks Edition) for OS X 10.9
https://www.maintain.se/downloads/CocktailME.dmg
Cocktail (Mountain Lion Edition) for OS X 10.8
https://www.maintain.se/downloads/CocktailMLE.dmg
Cocktail (Lion Edition) for Mac OS X 10.7
https://www.maintain.se/downloads/CocktailLionEdition.dmg
Cocktail (Snow Leopard Edition) for Mac OS X 10.6
https://www.maintain.se/downloads/CocktailSLE.dmg
Cocktail (Leopard Edition) for Mac OS X 10.5
https://www.maintain.se/downloads/CocktailLE.dmg
Cocktail (Ventura Edition) for macOS 13.0 and Cocktail (Sonoma Edition) for macOS 14.0
https://www.maintain.se/cocktail
You may have noticed that if you double type a space, you end up with a period automatically typing itself. Some users may appreciate the automatic typing of periods after hitting the spacebar twice, but many Mac users who write code, scripts, or write professionally, can be annoyed by the automatic typing of periods with the space bar.
Here’s how you can turn off the auto-typing of periods after hitting space twice.
• Go to the Apple menu and choose "System Settings"
• Scroll down in the list and choose "Keyboard"
• Look for the Text Input section for "Input Sources", and click the "Edit" button next to that
• Locate the switch for "Add period with double-space" and toggle that off
• Click "Done"
Now when you hit the space bar twice, the Mac will no longer automatically type a period.
Some macOS users have found that file sharing between a Mac running macOS Ventura or Sonoma does not work reliably between such Mac and another Mac with older OS, iPhone, iPad, Windows PC, and even some NAS drives like Synology. For many users, file sharing setups that worked fine for years prior to updating to macOS Ventura or Sonoma are now no longer working at all or behaving in an inconsistent manner.
If you’re experiencing problems with file sharing not working in macOS Ventura or Sonoma, there is a fix to resolve the issue. This solution applies to SMB file sharing with macOS Ventura or Sonoma and devices connecting to or from the Mac, whether you’re experiencing connectivity failures, time outs, server unavailable, server may not exist, or other similar error messages.
• Open the "System Settings" on Mac from the Apple menu
• Go to "General" and then to "Sharing"
• Find the switch for "File Sharing" and toggle it Off
• Restart the Mac by going to the Apple menu and choosing Restart
• Upon reboot, return to the Sharing system settings panel and turn "File Sharing" back to the On position
• Resume file sharing as usual, it should work as expected
You may need to repeat this process after a few days, or at random, if file sharing suddenly stops working again between the macOS Ventura or Sonoma Mac and another Mac or device. Why you need to disable file sharing, reboot, then re-enable file sharing, is a bit of a mystery. Simply toggling file sharing off and on does not do the trick.
macOS offers a super simple and fast way to convert images, directly from the Finder. Thanks to the handy Quick Actions feature, Mac users are able to convert any images from anywhere in the Finder, with just a few clicks.
This is a powerful and useful feature that is often overlooked. Here’s how it works:
• From Finder, locate the image you want to convert
• Right-click, control-click, or two-finger click on the image you wish to convert, and go to “Quick Actions” and then select "Convert Image" from the menu
• Select the file format type you wish to convert the image to and select the image size (choose "Actual Size" if you do not want to resize the image), choose whether or not you wish to preserve metadata, then click on the "Convert" button
The image will convert almost instantly and appear in the same folder with the same file name as the origin image. This Quick Action image conversion tool is super fast and powerful, but is limited to JPG, PNG, and HEIF/HEIC formats. If you wish to convert to additional image file formats, you will have to use Preview.
Here are three quick macOS tips that once you start using should make the time you spend on your Mac a more effortless experience. The following assumes you're running macOS Ventura or later, but most if not all of these tips should work on earlier versions of Apple's Mac operating system.
• Open a Copy of a File by Default
Stationery Pad is a handy way to nix a step in your workflow if you regularly use document templates on your Mac. The long-standing Finder feature essentially tells a file's parent application to open a copy of it by default, ensuring that the original file remains unedited. Almost any file type can be defined as a template with Stationery Pad – it could be used to streamline common Photoshop jobs, create skeleton HTML/CSS files, or help with Word document invoicing.
To take advantage of it, right-click (Ctrl-click) the file that you want to use as a template, select Get Info, then check the Stationery Pad checkbox under the General section. Lastly, click the red traffic light button to close the Get Info window. Next time you double-click the template file, Finder will automatically create and open a copy of it, leaving the original untouched.
• Access More Preview File Format Options
When you come to save or export a file in Preview, Option-click the Format dropdown to get access to several additional file types.
• Add App/File/Folder Shortcuts to Finder's Toolbar
Here's how to add convenient app, file, and folder shortcuts to the toolbar of Finder windows: Simply begin to drag the item within the Finder window, then hold down the Command (⌘) key and drop it onto an available space in the toolbar.