Brief Hands-On Report--Cocktail 4.0 Leopard Edition is Out

Cocktail 4.0 for Leopard is out and available for download via "Check for Updates" within the application or MacUpdate.com. The updated and new features for the Leopard Edition are:

Cocktail

Mac OS X 10.5 compatibility
Updated Automator actions
Updated Help compatible with Leopard help system
Improved software update (Sparkle)
Scheduler log
Miscellaneous fixes and optimizations

Files

Multi-user cache clearing (Caches)
Added support for Fsck, Kerberos Admin and Kerberos Client logs (Logs)
Added possibility to install or uninstall Archives preference pane (Misc)

Network

Added "Allow sending password in clear text" setting (File Sharing)
Added "Warn when sending password in clear text" setting (File Sharing)
Added "Display in login dialog's Name filed" settings (File Sharing)
Added "Allow Root login" setting (File Sharing)
Added "Archive logs every X day(s)" setting (File Sharing)
Added possibility to start or restart File Sharing (File Sharing)

Interface

Added "Disable stripes from list view mode" setting (Finder)
Added "Disable stripes from list view mode" setting (Finder)
Added "Force Dock to side-style mode" setting (Dock)
Added "Enable mouse over on stacks" setting (Dock)
Added "Enable spring load actions on all items" setting (Dock)

The update is free to registered users.

We downloaded v4.0 via MacUpdate and installed it over the previous version. We launched and ran the new version on our MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo and aluminum iMac Core 2 Duo without encountering any issues. [Bill Fox & Dana Baggett]