dock contents
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egypturnashCute little article on O'Rielly on "What's on your Dock?". I thought I'd point at mine.
I use TinkerTool to keep it pinned at the lower right corner of the screen. Visible above it is the bottom edge of an Audion skin I made; it'll never get released because it still needs some work, but I lost the source file. (It's a variant of Myra - well, actually, that picture is a variant of it, as I originally conceived that image with the purpose of being an Audion skin.)
No magnification, tiny size; I mostly use it as a switcher, not a launcher. I've tried just getting rid of it, but it's handy to see what's running at a quick glance, and enough stuff has handy functionality via a control-click on its dock icon that it's worth keeping around. I just wish I could turn off the behavior where Dock-aware programs won't let you size windows down into the area the Dock will grow into.
Left-to-right:
I don't use the Dock for launching apps, as a rule; most of the stuff on it is there because it's launched on startup. Instead, I use Launchbar. Apple-escape, type a few letters, hit return. I also keep LiteSwitch X running for nicer apple-tab app switching; I use it about half the time.
I use TinkerTool to keep it pinned at the lower right corner of the screen. Visible above it is the bottom edge of an Audion skin I made; it'll never get released because it still needs some work, but I lost the source file. (It's a variant of Myra - well, actually, that picture is a variant of it, as I originally conceived that image with the purpose of being an Audion skin.)
No magnification, tiny size; I mostly use it as a switcher, not a launcher. I've tried just getting rid of it, but it's handy to see what's running at a quick glance, and enough stuff has handy functionality via a control-click on its dock icon that it's worth keeping around. I just wish I could turn off the behavior where Dock-aware programs won't let you size windows down into the area the Dock will grow into.
Left-to-right:
- The Finder. Duh. Can't get rid of that. Well, okay, CocoaFinder, but... eh.
- Apple's Mail, which I really intend to try switching to someday, but until then I stay with...
- Eudora. Venerable mail client. I don't have it ultra-configured or anything, it just has many megs of mail in its database.
- Camino. For browsing the web.
- Audion. Music. I like it a lot more than the ugly metal iTunes. Note that the time display on it is totally illegible because of the tiny size I have the Dock at.
- iJournal. LJ client. Which I contributed a little bit of code to (Audion 3 song info support).
- BBEdit. I don't own a word processor. I'm a geek; I prefer text editors.
- Fire. AIM/MSN/ICQ/Yahoo/IRC/Jabber client. I only use AIM. Simple interface and no ads, but it's been refusing to do file transfers lately. Annoying. I should try some of the other IM clients out.
- MoonDock. It's the moon, and it's in the dock, and it shows the current phase. I also keep the little info bar at the bottom of Illustrator set to the moon phase (alt-click, or is it apple-click on it, and you get an extended set of options for display).
- SnapperHead. If you've ever seen me serving up on-demand screengrabs of work-in-progress, this is what does it.
- Savitar. Muck client. Best Mac client IMHO, although there's only two viable alternatives at the moment - the not-version-1-yet Cantrip, and venerable Tinyfugue in a terminal window.
- An alias to my 'FruitMenu items' folder. FruitMenu is a tool that makes the Apple menu behave like it did in Classic; to be honest, I've quit using it for launching stuff. Mostly I use it for access to a few directories that're held in there.
I don't use the Dock for launching apps, as a rule; most of the stuff on it is there because it's launched on startup. Instead, I use Launchbar. Apple-escape, type a few letters, hit return. I also keep LiteSwitch X running for nicer apple-tab app switching; I use it about half the time.
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Date: 2003-10-01 11:15 am (UTC)Though it's still sometimes a little odd under OS X. It's getting better!
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1440
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Date: 2003-10-01 12:34 pm (UTC)The OSX dock is a bastard hybrid of the pre-X Apple menu (much like the Windows 'start' button in basic functionality), an application switcher, and the NeXT dock. Drag a program's icon into the dock and you can forevermore launch it by one click there; running programs show up in it; some stuff will bounce up and down frantically when it wants your attention, some stuff gives you quick info in the icon, some stuff offers quick access menus by right-clicking on it in the dock.
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Date: 2003-10-01 11:34 am (UTC)Seeing a MUCK client brought back memories. So which mud/mucks do you enjoy playing? It's been so long since I played one that I'm out of touch...
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Date: 2003-10-01 12:42 pm (UTC)I run OS9 on my main Apple and OSX on my laptop, but I still don't care for OSX. I happened to like the way that Classic looked and behaved. It just looked so much cleaner. I don't like the double window folders in OSX.
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Date: 2003-10-01 01:57 pm (UTC)I think the same people who make FruitMenu have a folder-labels hack. They also have a hack that can manipulate the brushed-metal look, and force stuff to be brushed-metal (ew) or force stuff not to be brushed-metal... doesn't work on iTunes or the Quicktime player, since they roll their own brushed-metal, but, well, I use Audion, and I use Goldberg instead of QT Player/Preview.
I've gotten completely used to OSX on my machine. I still use 9 at work, but it's just so much more simple and elegant for me... I vastly prefer X to the huge pile of add-on widgetry that is 9.
"Double window folders"? I'm not sure what you're talking about; do you mean the Browser view? I use it most of the time; it's good for quickly navigating around the machine!
It's got some different metaphors at work, is all. It felt weird at first for me, too, but I got used to it once I stopped expecting it to work just like Classic. LaunchBar helped a lot; I miss it every time I reflexively start to type 'apple-esc, ps' to launch Photoshop at work!
(Also, the fact that my machine is a dual-processor means that I pretty much have to use OSX; it seamlessly uses both of them, instead of having no clue there's two CPUs except for a few Photoshop plugins and some 3D programs.)
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Date: 2003-10-01 02:27 pm (UTC)Now - all your dock belong to us!
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Date: 2003-10-01 09:09 pm (UTC)Or do you mean that you just don't get the new column view in the Finder? I can't remember if it's the default or not. There's a little gadget in the toolbar of each Finder window that has four little squares, several horizontal lines, and a rectangle divided into three vertical parts; you can pick old-style icon view, old-style list view with the flippy triangles, or the NeXT-style column view (respectively) for a Finder window. If you don't like the column view, you should also go to finder->preferences and turn off 'new windows open in column view'.
Why OSX Kicks OS9's Ass:
These sound like techie picky things, but trust me, they really make for a nicer experience. Every time I have to jerk around memory allocation myself on Spümcø's OS9 machines, I grumble!
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Date: 2003-10-01 06:03 pm (UTC)I use it as a launcher. It may get less cluttered thanks to this journal entry and all the cool new shareware to try!
In order:
Finder, which I customized to have a Hal icon.
Phoenix, an LJ client
iTunes
Neverwinter Nights (drool)
Mail
Mozilla
Address Book
iCal
DVD2oneX: a utility that takes the main audio and video from a movie DVD and decodes it so that you can make a backup DVD. Just in case. *cough*
Aliens vs Predator 2
Painter 8
DVDBackup: Similar to DVD2oneX. I like the other one better though, so this one may disappear from my dock soon.
GraphicConverter: A very useful utility to convert graphic formats.
Dreamweaver MX
Carracho: a file sharing client for Mac much like Kazaa (as I understand it, never used Kazaa)
Excel
Word
Calculator
Documents to Go (Very useful, I take meeting notes on my Palm device and then edit them on my Mac)
Palm Desktop (works with my Sony Clie)
Toast
Remote Desktop Connection (so I can connect to Windows servers at work)
SplashID desktop: the desktop part of a util for my Clie that keeps my list of usernames and passwords encrypted using blowfish, much safer than just storing them in the default memo pad app.
SplashPhoto Desktop: I think I got this as part of a package deal, basically it helps download photos to your Palm device. I don't use it much.
RealOne Player
Virtual ][, an Apple II emulator
Image Capture
VNCThing (use for connecting to PCs at work)
Disk Utility (Think I'll remove that)
Windows Media Player
Mplayer (I'm still trying this media player out)
Terminal
Internet Explorer (because some sites just don't work with Mozilla)
Disk Copy (I'm removing that one too now)
System Preferences
Limewire
Hard drive ( custom icon)
Trash ( custom icon)
Whew! Lots of these will disappear once I try some of that shareware, I think.
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Date: 2003-10-01 09:13 pm (UTC)I used to have more stuff in my Dock when I was attempting to use it as an app launcher, but once I discovered LaunchBar I was able to take everything out of it.
Also, I did a little cleanup before taking the screenshot I posted; I decided, you know, I tried Safari and went back to Camino, I'm taking it out of the dock.
Oh, from what I understand about Kazaa, Carracho isn't too much like Kazaa, it's more like a combination ftp/chat program. It's a clone of Hotline, and I know what the main use of these programs is, you bad thing you. *grin* Kazaa's onea those P2P things like Limewire.
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Date: 2003-10-02 07:37 am (UTC)I stand corrected. :)
Yeah, that's pretty much actual size. I'm tired of squinting to see what's on there. Now I just have to drag myself away from Neverwinter Nights in order to try those utilities...
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Date: 2003-10-04 02:40 am (UTC)