Dock Icons

[aethier]

Durring my time as a member/reader here at macrumors, i have noticed that there are some rather pointless threads on things like how many iTunes songs you have etc...
well, here is another...
How many items do you have in your Dock??
(including the trash can)
I have 54 which is wich takes the full screen with of my 15' imac with it (the dock) on the smallest settng.... What about you??

-aethier

[comrade]

22 full time icons.

[King Cobra]

>Durring my time as a member/reader here at macrumors, i have noticed that there are some rather pointless threads on things like how many iTunes songs you have etc... (aethier)

Welcome to the club! :)

When my computer first starts up, I have five things to the left, and six on the right side, for a total of 11 icons.

Right now I have 15.

Perhaps this article (http://www.ambitiouslemon.com/hints.php?id=20) from AmbitiousLemon.com will enlighten the view of using the dock for anyone with "clutter" on their dock.

[Vlade]

28, but I change them all the time.

[Freg3000]

36 including Finder and Trash. Only two folders to the right of the divider.

I like it. :)

[howard]

1. trash can
2. a folder with all my apps...with an icon i change every once and awhile
3. chimera
4. entourage
5. adium
6. finder

i like a clean dock and i love having that folder with all my other apps.

[shadowfax]

Got what i think is the coolest arrangement i have seen, similar to howard's:

1. finder
2. camino
3. mail
4. iTunes
5 Terminal
6. Sherlock
7. iChat
8. ~/applications, a folder of arranged shortcuts to all my apps, like a folder with all the games, and one with graphics apps, and one with MS apps, and so on; this alleviates that need for a big dock. i can't stand those microscopic docks, lol.
9. Trash

the folder of shortcuts allows me to have a normal, unorganized folder with ALL my apps.

[patrick0brien]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
a folder of arranged shortcuts to all my apps

-All

Here's mine.

These icons, like Shadowfax, actually are representative of folders in which I have the alias' of the respective applications. I keep the folder that organizes these, the 'Dock Items' folder, in my User Library.

As I made most of these icons to replace the folder icons (to keep my sanity), it's labeled for the purpose of this discussion.

And yes magnification is active, and "Utilities" is up.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by patrick0brien
These icons, like Shadowfax, actually are representative of folders in which I have the alias' of the respective applications. I keep the folder that organizes these, the 'Dock Items' folder, in my User Library.

As I made most of these icons to replace the folder icons (to keep my sanity), it's labeled for the purpose of this discussion.

And yes magnification is active, and "Utilities" is up.

very impressive job on the icons and arrangement. i prefer consolidating them into one icon, but that looks really classy!

[RBMaraman]

I have 14 full-time dock icons, including Finder and Trash.

1. Finder
2. EarthLink TotalAccess 2003
3. iCal
4. iChat
5. iMovie
6. iPhoto
7. iSync
8. iTunes
9. Konfabulator
10. Mail
11. Microsoft Word
12. Safari
*DIVIDER*
13. Home Folder
14. Trash

[Kwyjibo]

mostly custom icons so ishoudl explain.
1. you know it
2. Mail.app ~ Prickle
3. iChat ~ Gumby
4.Safari ~Pokey
5. Itunes (Ooooh yeah)
6, Camino
7. Mr. Teeny's Folder A folder of my DOCK2
8. the palce where files go after i don't like them nemore

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Kwyjibo
mostly custom icons so ishoudl explain.
1. you know it
2. Mail.app ~ Prickle
3. iChat ~ Gumby
4.Safari ~Pokey
5. Itunes (Ooooh yeah)
6, Camino
7. Mr. Teeny's Folder A folder of my DOCK2
8. the palce where files go after i don't like them nemore

the only thing i dislike about this is that it's not apparently thematic in any way. i like my icons to be at least somewhat symbolic of what they stand for, with the exception of my iChat icon, but i guess you get used to it.

[vniow]

Originally posted by Kwyjibo

5. Itunes (Ooooh yeah)


Kool-aid!!

Rock it.

Here's mine, buch of crap in there, most of which I use hardly never.http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=251202

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by vniow
Kool-aid!!

Rock it.

Here's mine, buch of crap in there, most of which I use hardly never.http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=251202
ms v, that's a freaking train wreck! how do you stand it?

[vniow]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
ms v, that's a freaking train wreck! how do you stand it?

That's an excellent question, especially when all you got is an 800x600 screen....

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by vniow
That's an excellent question, especially when all you got is an 800x600 screen....

i was thinking that very same thing. you should get online so i can further bombard you with IMs and take up more of your screen real estate. I'll shock and awe that dock into shape yet!;)

[Kwyjibo]

Originally posted by vniow
Kool-aid!!

Rock it.

Here's mine, buch of crap in there, most of which I use hardly never.http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=251202

my theme is potential delegates for post war peace settlements after the iraq situations is settled. Can you think better minds ot negitiate peace?

And i could only find these three gumby icons. Otherwise they would all be gumby.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Kwyjibo
my theme is potential delegates for post war peace settlements after the iraq situations is settled. Can you think better minds ot negitiate peace?

And i could only find these three gumby icons. Otherwise they would all be gumby.

does that mean that the koolaid dude gets to be kofi annan (1st name sp)?

[alset]

43. I never would have thought I had so many items if I hadn't stopped to count for this thread. This really opened my eyes. :)

Dan

[DrGrip84]

13, including Finder and Trash. I had close to 30, but I just recently dumped some...

edit: whoops, posted twice :(

[DrGrip84]

13. I was up to 30+, but just dumped some recently.

1. Finder
2. iCal
3. iChat
4. Mail
5. Safari
6. Direct Connect
7. iTunes
8. Watson
9. Photoshop
10. Dreamweaver
11. EvoCam
12. System Prefs
13. Trash

[patrick0brien]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
very impressive job on the icons and arrangement. i prefer consolidating them into one icon, but that looks really classy!

-Shadowfax

You're in High School?!? Good God [I feel old]. You're very well spoken and controlled in your messages, keep it up, very important later in life.

Well, I appreciate the compliment.

I have these and a bunch of others I've created. Most, I create using Electric Image Universe 5 (yeah, expensive hobbies :rolleyes: ) - it is difficult to discern from that screencap.

Shadowfax, et al., you want 'em? Look up my profile and email me. The file I'll send you is about 1.6mb right now - more being added as I go...

I just ask you give me credit, when credit is due if someone asks where you got 'em. :D

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by DrGrip84
13. I was up to 30+, but just dumped some recently.
....
12. System Prefs


that's a nice practical setup, and it's cool, but i wonder--do you need to have sys prefs there? i mean, you can get to it so easily by just clicking the apple button on the menu. but of course, if you like it there, you're more than welcome to keep it there ;)

[patrick0brien]

-Shadowfax
do you need to have sys prefs there?

Well hey, I do it too, call it old habit :)

What're you doing up? We share the same time zone.

Hey! What am I doing up?

[jelloshotsrule]

patrickobrien and kwyjibo- great icons

p- i especially like the audio/video one and the etch a sketch. did you make those? any chance of sharing them? hehe

k- where did you find the kool aid man??? i'd love to have it if you have a link, or could send the icon itself.
let me know. thanks!

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by patrick0brien
-Shadowfax
do you need to have sys prefs there?

Well hey, I do it too, call it old habit :)

What're you doing up? We share the same time zone.

Hey! What am I doing up?

man, i am up checking out your icons, lol! good stuff. very nice work. you should post them over on deskmod.com and link over here. you could post them an be like, ha! mac only! Gorman would be pleased, maybe.

[Kwyjibo]

this is the link to all the koolaid icons i know of http://www.xicons.com/search.php?keywords=kool+aid

i haveto show off the rest of my customization....koolaid folders and weird hard drvies. I have parititions and an external fireiwire drive to make all of those.

safehouse is my backup.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Kwyjibo
this is the link to all the koolaid icons i know of http://www.xicons.com/search.php?keywords=kool+aid

i haveto show off the rest of my customization....koolaid folders and weird hard drvies. I have parititions and an external fireiwire drive to make all of those.

safehouse is my backup.

hahaha! that's curiously adorable, lol. i like the mobius strip (or whatever the heck it's called) icons on the right especially.

[patrick0brien]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
especially like the audio/video one and the etch a sketch. did you make those?

-jelloshotsrule

I make all of them. I did 'Borrow' the face art for Internet and iLife from Apple though.

Everything else, I modeled and rendered - I actually have an Electric Image Set specifically designed for consistent illumination and renderings for the icons.

any chance of sharing them? hehe

Sure! Profile/Email!

I've 'stuffed' the file - it's now down to ~725kb

[jelloshotsrule]

thanks kwyjibo and patty o!

[Wes]

My dock, I like have everything available within a click. I go to the Applications folder probably every 3 days or so.

[yzedf]

Does more apps on the dock mean you are old OS 9 (and earlier) users?

How many auto-hide the dock?

Me, I keep only the many times per day stuff in the dock (email, web, chat) and the rest I access via the click and hold the Applications folder until the lists pops out thing.

Of course, I can't stand people that leave 57 links on the desktop either, or leaving everything in one folder. I crave organization.

To each their own I suppose.

[Kwyjibo]

Yz, you may be right. I always keep my dock on and i switched (for osx). As you cna see I only keep the integral apps there too. If i find mself goign for soemthing moreo ften i put it in my dock for a few days.

[MacBandit]

23 including the trash. Most of them are frequently used though some of them such as iMovie and iDVD I just have there for the hell of it.

I have quick access to all my apps and files through my home folder, documents folder, and app folder at the end of the dock.

My dock usually hides on the left side the screen, I rotated it so it would fit better on the forums.

[MacFan25]

I have 15 items in my dock. I didn't think that I had that many, until I just counted them. The dock takes up about 3/4 of the very bottom of my screen.

[blogo]

19 applications 4 folders and 1 trash can

24 full-time icons total

[DreaminDirector]

I have 51 total.

And it's not that I constantly use each one every day. I just like how everything I need, if aand when I need it, is at the bottom of my screen. I hide the dock too so it's not constantly staring back at me.

For me, it's just easier with all of them there.

[billyboy]

There are 7
Finder,
Text Edit,
iTunes,
folder for browsers and URL Bookmark Pro,
folder for favourite Jaguar apps
folder for favourite utilities
folder for maintenance utilities
Trash

Anyone know where to find a disc shaped calculator to finish off my Applications folder?

I create aliases for the folders using a script that doesnt add "alias" to each app title. Wow! :)

[billyboy]

A pic

[aethier]

Well when i started this thread i never thought it would turn out this long...
anyways i have just cleaned my dock and went from 54 to 40 icons yay!
anyways, how do you take a screenshot?

[Wes]

You can use grab, or if you want to be a real geek, use command-shift-3 to take a full screen shot, or command-shift-4 to take a picture of a selection of the screen.

[Kwyjibo]

Shift + Apple +4 gives you a little crosshair you drag it over your space it captures it and makes a .pdf on your desktop. Then you open preview and export as jpeg.

edit thanks wes: I think there are oither shift-apple-number combos but i do not have thme on hand.


great topic tooi'm glad someoen gave me a chance to show off my icons.

[Wes]

Originally posted by Kwyjibo

There are othe shoft apple nubmer ocmbos i on't haveo n hand

Are you trying to hurt my head? :P

[aethier]

how do you export it into jpeg?

-aethier

[Kwyjibo]

open up the .pdf in preview and hit export under file. Then you will be able to save it as a jpeg. Enjoy

[aethier]

ok cool thanks.. i guess im blindf, because when i looked before i didnt see that

-aethier

[Foxer]

I'm on a crap PC at work, but running through them in my head, I count 18 on the dock back home, with proably about 8 on the "streamlined" powerbook. Always use auto-hide and magnify, beacuse they are just that cool.

I visited a friend of mine the other day who I hadn't seen in awhile. He bought a powerbook a few months back and I was helping him set up his airport. He was messing with my powerbook and then excalimed, "This is cool! How do you get the icons to get bigger when you select them?" I thought everyone new about that feature!

I keep as few icons as possible on desktop.

[shadowfax]

can someone explain to me why people send things in pdf form? can't you just use graphicconverter, or snapz pro X to save them as GIF or JPG so we can see them without clicking?

[Mal]

I have 30 icons in my dock, as you can see in the attached picture. I use most of them almost every day, the rest are ones that I'd rather not have to navigate to, or would forget I had if they weren't in there. ;)

JW

[jholzner]

19 at the moment...but changes almost weekly.

[MacBandit]

Originally posted by Kwyjibo
Shift + Apple +4 gives you a little crosshair you drag it over your space it captures it and makes a .pdf on your desktop. Then you open preview and export as jpeg.

edit thanks wes: I think there are oither shift-apple-number combos but i do not have thme on hand.


great topic tooi'm glad someoen gave me a chance to show off my icons.

After using Apple-shift-4 if you press the space bar it will highlight a given area and will only take a screen shot of the given area highlighted (i.e. the window or icon your cursor is over.)

[skymaXimus]

16 including all the regular stuff...
Left to Right:
Finder, Safari,Mail, Adium, iCal
iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, Photoshop
Toast, Stickies, Sys Pref's
Regularly (SP, its late) used apps sub folder
Home, Apps, Trash

[Cody]

This thread made me register for these forums, by the way.

I've got 12 Icons, including the Trash. No Finder, and my Dock is clear, with the MIP hack applied.

1. AIM (with no banners!) :D
2. BBEdit (I dunno, the stock one is so boring)
3. Safari
4. Frogblast (with The Cheat icon!)
5. Ircle (hidden)
6. Itunes
7. Entourage
8. Web Folder (Get it, with the spider? hehe, lame I know)
9. Downloads Folder
10. My MP3s Folder (The ones I need to rename and ID3 tag)
11. MP3s Folder
12. Trash

http://www.bluebomber.com/dock.jpg

[Foxer]

Why won't Entourage let me change it's icon? every other program (including other office icons) allow me to change them. I hate that damn icon. Is this more MS subterfuge?

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Cody
This thread made me register for these forums, by the way.
1. AIM (with no banners!) :D

AIM is one of the most disappointing apps i have tried on a mac. any chat program that makes iChat look good deserves a swift kick in the arse. two, actually. i was impressed that there was an ad remover though. i tried it out, and it still annoyed me to no end. he fxed the buddy list, but the chat boxes are WAY too bulky after using iChat, which is clean. it's like they forgot that macs put the menubar up top. that program is so clearly (poorly) ported from windows that it makes me cringe. lol, not to be inflammatory, but it still got to me, even with the ad remover. and you know, the chat windows in windows look fine. i just don't understand why they so stupidly put the icon up at the top and not inline with the other controls. phaugh!

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Foxer
Why won't Entourage let me change it's icon? every other program (including other office icons) allow me to change them. I hate that damn icon. Is this more MS subterfuge?

if you right click on entourage and open the package contents, you can usually find the base icon and replace it with a new icon by saving that new icon as a .icns file and naming it the same thing as the original, which you can rename as <whatever it is called>2.icns. if you want to go through the trouble.

[mac15]

here is mine, nice and blue

mail, camino, adium, itunes, home

http://funmac.com/attachment.php?postid=9035

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by mac15
here is mine, nice and blue

mail, camino, adium, itunes, home


i like the consistency of the color, though i think you should go in and take some of the pixelation off the duck and adjust the colors so his eye whites are white and the blue is more consistent; it doesn't look as clean as the rest of the icons.

[Kwyjibo]

Originally posted by Foxer
Why won't Entourage let me change it's icon? every other program (including other office icons) allow me to change them. I hate that damn icon. Is this more MS subterfuge?

in my experience m$ apps are the weirdest to put new icons onto if its even possible. Sometimes i have to try a bunch of times and login/logout for them to work right .
I don't use entoruage so it wans't my concenr but i was able to do the rest.

[mac15]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
i like the consistency of the color, though i think you should go in and take some of the pixelation off the duck and adjust the colors so his eye whites are white and the blue is more consistent; it doesn't look as clean as the rest of the icons.

Hmm, I never noticed that, since I have my dock small than it is in the picture.
I think it maybe also jpeg compression. I'll mess with it a little.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by mac15
Hmm, I never noticed that, since I have my dock small than it is in the picture.
I think it maybe also jpeg compression. I'll mess with it a little.

yes, it's the jpeg compression, that's exactly what it is. you can probably smooth it out pretty easily with photoshop's blur brush or something. but mostly i think you need to make the eyes white ;)

[Kwyjibo]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
yes, it's the jpeg compression, that's exactly what it is. you can probably smooth it out pretty easily with photoshop's blur brush or something. but mostly i think you need to make the eyes white ;)

truly spectacualr job on the duck shadow. I'm qutie impressed. Also i have to tell alex ant he has a nice tar i think due to my links.

[whawho]

My Dock:

From top to bottom (or left to right)

1. Finder
2. Mail.app
3. Internet Explorer
4. Safari

-------------------------------------

5. Desktop-->Shortcut
6. Main Hardrive-->Shortcut
7. Home
8. Apps-->shortcut to apps used more often
9. Wifes Hardrive-->shortcut
10. Checkbook
11. Trash

I hate clutter so I try to keep as little as possible on the dock-->without using Fruitmenu.

[Cody]

Originally posted by Shadowfax
AIM is one of the most disappointing apps i have tried on a mac. any chat program that makes iChat look good deserves a swift kick in the arse. two, actually. i was impressed that there was an ad remover though. i tried it out, and it still annoyed me to no end. he fxed the buddy list, but the chat boxes are WAY too bulky after using iChat, which is clean. it's like they forgot that macs put the menubar up top. that program is so clearly (poorly) ported from windows that it makes me cringe. lol, not to be inflammatory, but it still got to me, even with the ad remover. and you know, the chat windows in windows look fine. i just don't understand why they so stupidly put the icon up at the top and not inline with the other controls. phaugh!

Well, I'm just fond of AIM because it allows me to do groups (Hello iChat, are you listening?), IM image transfer, file transfer, no banners (thanks to me! :P ) and buddy icons. That's all I want in a client, and so far, only the official AIM client offers these features. I turn off all the crap I don't need, like logging and news/stock tickers.

For me, AIM is fast, stable, and does what I want.

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by Cody
Well, I'm just fond of AIM because it allows me to do groups (Hello iChat, are you listening?), IM image transfer, file transfer, no banners (thanks to me! :P ) and buddy icons. That's all I want in a client, and so far, only the official AIM client offers these features. I turn off all the crap I don't need, like logging and news/stock tickers.

For me, AIM is fast, stable, and does what I want.

it's a shame about the groups thing, to be sure. however, iChat has astronomically superior support for buddy icons. and i frequently use it to send images to buddies both as files and via direct connection. it's as easy as drag-and-drop, lol, with the exception of firewall nasties, which is just as much of an AIM problem. iChat's main voids for me are decent away messaging (hint: how about auto-response?) and profile making (you can't do it, period)/viewing (where there is no scroll and you can't resize the box, plus half the links in profiles won't work). sorry for being OT guys.

[eyeluvmyimac]

16 items (subject to change)
--------------------------------
1) Finder
2) Safari
3) Mail
4) iChat
5) ICQ (not always though)
6) iTunes
7) Word
8) iMovie 3
9) iDVD 3
10) iPhoto 2
11) Sherlock
12) Address Book
13) Terminal
14) Ghost Recon
--divider line--
15) "My Stuff" - school folders, work apps, etc...
16) Trash

[anneleonard]

A lot of these dock icons have been changed from the original with help from Xicons (http://www.xicons.com) :)

http://www.coastaldune.co.uk/personal/MyDock.jpg

1. Finder
2. System Prefs
3. BBEdit
4. Toast
5. Clock
6. Word
7. Stickies
8. iCal
9. Mail
10. Address Book
11. macam (driver for my webcam)
12. iPhoto
13. Adobe Image Ready 7
14. Adobe Photoshop 7
15. Adobe Illustrator 10
16. Adobe InDesign 2
17. Adobe LiveMotion 2
18. Mplayer OSX
19. Limewire
20. iTunes
21. RealPlayer One
22. Camino
23. Safari
24. Transmit (FTP)
25. Dreamweaver MX
26. Mac messenger 2
27. MSN messenger
_
28. Home
29. Apps - aliases of other applications
30. Downloads
31. Trash

Chuff, I didn't realise I had so many! I guess with my 17" widescreen I kinda like having them all at the bottom... because i can!

Anne.

[edesignuk]

Finder
Carracho ;)
Speed Download
iCal
Address Book
Mail
iChat
MSN Msgr
Safari
Camino
IE
iTunes
TextEdit
Toast
Password Master X
Terminal
System Prefs
VLC
BBEdit
Preview
iPhoto
Photoshop 7
ImageReady 7
MS Word X
MS Excel X
Trash

[aethier]

we all seem to be so proud of what programs we have in the Dock...

-aethier

[Kwyjibo]

i'm more proud of my icons, everyone can have the same programs for all i care. althought i shoudl start bragging about my finder here its qutie rare from wha i know :)

[shadowfax]

Originally posted by aethier
we all seem to be so proud of what programs we have in the Dock...

-aethier
i think many mac users simply take a great deal of pride in how their setup looks. i know i do. i spent hours and hours looking around for the coolest icons, even had to edit some to get my system to look like it does now; but this isn't the limit of it. i scrutinize my background folder and edit them all on top of choosing them very pickily. This is one reason i love OS X: it has an interface i can feel proud of!

put in the file because i never did earlier, methinks.

[Giaguara]

1 finder
2 notes.app
3 mail (tux mail icon)
4 terminal (tux terminal icon)
5 chimera (february build)
6 itunes (jaguar itunes icon)
7 sys prefs
8 project builder (jolt icon)
9 bbedit (tux icon)
10 address book (black address book icon)
11 xcharge (will go away after battery replacement)
12 cypher (will go away)
--
13 other apps folder (jaguar furry ball icon)
14 trash

[Giaguara]

Ups, img was allowed?

http://homepage.mac.com/zisa/dock.jpg