The Educated Kiwi
What’s in my Dock?
While reading The Angry Technician Blog, I came across a post regarding what are your most launched applications in Windows. Now my Windows 7 virtual machine is undoubtedly a thing that I will blog about later as at this stage the apps I use are very much web based but I thought I would share what’s in the dock of my home machine.
Nothing special in this first lot I use Safari, Nat uses Firefox Except for when I need the web developer toolbar. Then there is iChat, Skype, Billings (which does the invoicing etc), the iWork and iLife suites, Pulpmotion which is kind of an offline Animoto, Marsedit (my blogging software), And Rapidweaver for websites.
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Then we have Fetch (ftp client), Comic life, iCal, Photoshop, and Flash, Vector Designer and Pixelmator, Visualhub which I wish you could still buy but I got it ages ago, Time Machine, Toast, Cha Ching and Open Office.
Some apps that should be in here are textwrangler and now tweetie.
I guess this is only part of the story however as I actually launch most of my apps by using Command+space and then typing the first letter and hitting enter (this is a leftover of when I used Quicksilver on 10.4) I have yet to try Google Quick Search Box which is a development of this. But there you have some idea of what’s on my home Mac. Most surprising I guess is the amount of of paid shareware applications that I have accumulated that I never brought when I had a Windows machine.
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about 1 year ago
Spotlight as a launcher is stunning. I do the same …. but ….. I have pulled ALL the applications from my dock so that only my open apps are in the dock. I love the way I then have track of what is open and the minimal impact it then has on my workspace. I also have the size dragged to the smallest possible.
My thoughts …..
cheers
Greg
about 1 year ago
That sounds very sensible I will do the same on my laptop especially with limited screen real estate. Thanks for the tip.
about 1 year ago
You can also use Dock Gone from http://www.old-jewel.com/dockgone. This is a preference pane to turn the dock off. Very useful when using Photoshop because it doesn’t matter which side of the screen it always gets in the way.