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Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: pendragon on April 10, 2007, 08:21:04 AM
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Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: sandyman on April 10, 2007, 10:58:14 AM
I gave up on The Dock a long time ago smile.gif  

I now use DragThing.  I find it much more powerful and flexible.

Sandy
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on April 10, 2007, 11:05:54 AM
Don't need an image to show you, since I keep it hidden. It's underneath the menu bar should I think of a reason to access it. dntknw.gif I don't care for stuff taking up screen space when not in use. The other three sides are available for hiding, but they can be easily hit by accident. Normally, no one goes to the top of the screen unless using the menu, thus it's less likely to accidentally to have the Dock display. clap.gif The top location is available in various utilities such as Onyx and Tinkertool. smile.gif

As for what's in it, I have no idea! Have to look at it some time and see! tongue.gif laugh.gif
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: danf63 on April 10, 2007, 11:50:28 AM
I have about that many on my dock. I had more and it was too crowded, so I started using Spotlight to open things like Address Book.

Here's mine

Dan
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: pendragon on April 10, 2007, 12:01:03 PM
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who does not (or rarely) use the dock. Most always, my dock remains hidden.

To access my stuff, I merely hit the F1 key (modified by MaxMenus) and from there I can navigate to any (visible) file on my computer.

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Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on April 10, 2007, 12:05:09 PM
That's one fine program, all right, Sir Harv! clap.gif smile.gif I just hope Apple doesn't break it when the Dock starts expanding to the other sides as mentioned in your "review" of Leopard! jawdrop.gif

But my wife does use her Dock, at least for the few items I installed on it. But it is also hidden at the bottom of her iBook screen. Different strokes...
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: RNKIII on April 10, 2007, 12:11:56 PM
This is mine...  Need a wider screened 'puter soon to get'r all on.. biggrin.gif
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Bob K.   rnkiii
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: jcarter on April 10, 2007, 12:17:43 PM
I also hide my dock when using programs who need more screen space, such as Bryce.
And have it visible most of the time.  I do remove the ones I dont use much though, like Garage Band, (waiting for a class in that.)
"I'll show you mine if you show me yours"
We did this with our desktops a year ago, we do have some cute and unique ones.[attachment=228:attachment]
Jane
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: Mrious_be on April 10, 2007, 01:03:05 PM
I also keep my dock hidden from view.
And just keep the ones in there that i regularly need, the other ones I just browse through using the Application folder and the Document folder.
But ever since I have ToDos I don't even use those anymore either.
Just one click on the ToDos symbol and I have all applications I need in one simple popup.
The ones you don't want to appear in ToDos you can alt-click and ToDos will ignore them.

Easy smile.gif
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: kimmer on April 10, 2007, 04:43:30 PM
I keep my dock hidden although I use it on a reg. basis. I do get frustrated when I accidently hit it and it pops up, but I have iClip at the top and don't want the dock up there. It's a trade off.

Tried drag thing, and could never get the hang of it. Probably need to try it again.

Can't get the site of MaxMenus to open?

Anyhow, here's my dock pic:
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Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: jcarter on April 10, 2007, 05:48:40 PM
Hi Kimmer,
You are winning so far, you are in the lead for the most and the prettiest.

But I think that a few years ago I had one of the best desktops, I must go back and see if I can find the picture.  It was back with OS 9 when we could use those themes, trying to remember the name of the program.
Jane
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: dolphin on April 10, 2007, 10:42:13 PM
I also keep my dock hidden most of the time.

Here's whats in mine.


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Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: krissel on April 11, 2007, 12:31:08 AM
I downsized dramatically from 54 items. Moved stuff to popout drawers for infrequently used stuff.

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Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: chriskleeman on April 11, 2007, 02:46:15 PM
QUOTE(pendragon @ Apr 10 2007, 01:01 PM) [snapback]124206[/snapback]
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who does not (or rarely) use the dock. Most always, my dock remains hidden.

To access my stuff, I merely hit the F1 key (modified by MaxMenus) and from there I can navigate to any (visible) file on my computer.

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Hmm... sure looks like OS 9x to me!!!

Not a bad thing, just funny to see it look almost just like the old Apple menu!!! Might be something in that... Thinking.gif

My dock is hidden, on the bottom, fyi.

Chris K salute.gif
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on April 11, 2007, 02:59:12 PM
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sure looks like OS 9x to me!!!
Not a bad thing, just funny to see it look almost just like the old Apple menu!!! Might be something in that...
That's just on the surface, wait till you see what else it can do! In my opinion, the Dock was designed simply to show off the core animation and other candy. It does a good job of that, but it's not exteremely flexible and icons have been pushed about as far as they can go. Text is just find for lists of apps/files/folders/etc. and you can have the icons on there, if you want. Frankly, I can't remember what all the icons for all my apps look like ( especially when they get real small ), but it's pretty easy to read the label! laugh.gif But some people like them and even use icon view in the Finder. To each his own. smile.gif
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: chriskleeman on April 11, 2007, 03:42:41 PM
QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Apr 11 2007, 03:59 PM) [snapback]124295[/snapback]
That's just on the surface, wait till you see what else it can do! In my opinion, the Dock was designed simply to show off the core animation and other candy. It does a good job of that, but it's not exteremely flexible and icons have been pushed about as far as they can go. Text is just find for lists of apps/files/folders/etc. and you can have the icons on there, if you want. Frankly, I can't remember what all the icons for all my apps look like ( especially when they get real small ), but it's pretty easy to read the label! laugh.gif But some people like them and even use icon view in the Finder. To each his own. smile.gif


And life is for learning, so I'll give that app a try, Mr. XAirbusdriver and Pendragon!!! salute.gif and thanks!!!! notworthy.gif

I feel, somehow, so primitive... harhar.gif

Chris K  thumbup.gif

EDIT: OOPs, won't work in anymore in anything less than 10.4...
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: sandbox on April 11, 2007, 06:39:08 PM
left side
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: jcarter on April 11, 2007, 06:59:55 PM
Hi Sandbox, Thats nice, Onyx does that?  Its so small and out of the way, without  hiding it.
Jane
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: RHPConsult on April 11, 2007, 09:51:13 PM
Good gracious, mine must be a Simple Life! ohmy.gif  

I use one pragmatic rule that if I don't use something at least every 2-3 days, it doesn't belong in the dock. The corollary is that docks on PBs ain't supposed to be as big as those on 24" iMacIntels, or as Harv like to say, the 2' iMacIntels! coolio.gif

I'm not at home this week, so here's my on-the-road PB's assemblage.
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The Documents and Applications folders have ALL the "stuff" I need periodically, aka, less than often, more than never. The 2 icon-less folders are my collection of GIFS and JPEGS for e-messagesm and my Stationery Pad

Plus, of course, I do have a LOT OF (working) FILES scattered about the DT. Have thought about collecting them in a separate folder in the dock, but haven't ever tried it.

I tried DragThing a long time ago, but kept getting my "fingers" pinched in all the drawers . . . or sumthin'.

My mileage, clearly, does vary.
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: Paddy on April 11, 2007, 10:05:51 PM
On my G5, my dock looks a lot like Kris' - crammed. I use it constantly, because I'm constantly switching between various apps and documents when working on web sites. I'd be lost without it. On this MacBook Pro, I've not really got completely up to speed - it's not "fully loaded" yet - I've been toting around my external FW drive because I haven't had time to get this all sorted out with the move.

My G5 got taken out of the box this afternoon - but the movers were at the new house unloading until after 7:30 pm, so I didn't get much farther than that!!
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: RHPConsult on April 11, 2007, 10:56:27 PM
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. . . .the movers were at the new house unloading until after 7:30 pm,
When that G5 gets unlimbered and fired-up, time to change your TeeEss profile.  biggrin.gif

Glad that the journey is near-complete.   clap.gif
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: sandbox on April 11, 2007, 11:56:35 PM
Jane it pops in and out as needed, the more you put in the dock the smaller the icons get. I use just about everyone of those applications every day. Three browsers for checking websites, the full adobe suite, MacOffice, acrobat, stuffit, epson smart-panels, siverkeeper, network utilities, iListen, calculator, VPC, and the apple programs. Alias folders to Documents, Mov, Music, Photos, Text on the right side of the screen for projects defined by subject and or date.
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: MamaMoose on April 12, 2007, 01:09:24 AM
Thanks to krissel's suggestion I use Drop Drawers. This places tabs (drawers) along the side of the monitor. Each drawer contains what are basically holds a several aliases of folders, files, and apps grouped according to type. For example, Internet contains browsers and files for iChat, etc. Each drawer is represented by a tab and I can choose any color I want for a tab.  I  hide the dock as I do not find it useful.

I have ~ 50 additional ikcons on my desktop that I am moving into DropDrawers leaving me with a clean desktop.

MamaMoose
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: Frances144 on April 12, 2007, 03:37:14 AM
My dock - on the iBook is full of everything - including games for the girls!!!

I think my most useful app is Downsize.  Love it!  Much better than the one on iPhoto.
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on April 12, 2007, 07:02:42 PM
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...I'm constantly switching between various apps and documents when working on web sites. I'd be lost without it.
Well, I'm no 'power-user', but I often have BBEdit, FF, Fetch, Elements open at the same time. Plus each start up opens URLMP, Spamsieve, Excalibur, SpeedDownload, Typinator, Increase and PandoCalendar. But I still don't use the Dock to switch between apps because the command-tab works so well, and the icons are usually much bigger than what's in the Dock. And all the usual Quit/Hide/etc. command keys work without even making the app visible. Can't remember where I heard about command-tab, but it seems to be a well hidden but extremely useful function, whether one uses the Dock or not! clap.gif
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: krissel on April 12, 2007, 11:39:56 PM
I use DropDrawers for aliases also but mostly for collecting URLS so they are available for all purposes at any time. (Yes, Jim, I know about URL manager wink.gif) Also keep clippings of common replies to questions at TS. They run up the right side and a few at the bottom right. Set them to be translucent so they aren't too obnoxious.  smile.gif



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Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: RHPConsult on April 13, 2007, 01:51:38 AM
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Can't remember where I heard about command-tab, but it seems to be a well hidden but extremely useful function, whether one uses the Dock or not!
Well, sir, I certainly remember where I first heard/learned about it . . . rightcheer on this nifty web site and from the very keyboard at which you sit, daily.

For that reason we erected a modest Airbusdriver shrine in our garden  clap.gif  eusa_dance.gif  notworthy.gif
Title: What Does Your Dock Look Like?
Post by: Xairbusdriver on April 13, 2007, 08:32:26 AM
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Set them to be translucent so they aren't too obnoxious.
I wonder if my doctor could do that for me? Thinking.gif I know a few people who would greatly appreciate it.

This whole topic relates well to the one abut the survey about how we search in X. Seems Apple ( and the genius developers ) have ( to use the British plural ) created a system that is almost too easy to use in multiple ways! Ain't it nice to have such choice? clap.gif