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My Dock, curious about others.

Basically yeah. I just use my desktop for certain folders that I don't want to put on the HDD. Besides, a Desktop is for pictures, not for icons. I will put some, but if I don't have to put them there, I'll put them in my dock. A desktop, as I see, is only to access your HDD's and CDROM Drives. Other than that, I see people with such cluttered desktops, that it is just horrible.
 
I'm not at my Mac right now, so this may not be accurate:

Finder
Safari
Mail
iChat
Address Book
iTunes
iCal
QuickTime Player
System Preferences
TextEdit
Adium
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Applications folder
Downloads folder
new music folder
Trash

See this page for a picture. NOTE: AppleWorks is no longer in my Dock, and has been replaced with Adium.
 
Oh great, another "length of my dock" thread. :rolleyes: It's not how many apps you have there, but how you use them that matters. ;) :D :D :D
 
I have everyday icons for mail,chat, itunes and firefox... but the majority of my project oriented programs (dreamweaver, ps, flash) reside in a shortcut folder that I have on my dock... then I just click and hold and i have the shortcuts available. I think there's a lot less clutter, but the shortcuts are still there.
 
Devie said:
Even though I still dont have a mac, I dont see the point in having a small dock.
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1. 1024*768.
2. Quicksilver...

For reference I have:
System prefs,
iCal
Thunderbird
Firefox
ThermographX
Adium

And even those I control-space most times.. It's a lot more work on a laptop to remove your hand from the keyboard and shift the mouse (especially using the trackpad) than it is to use QS.
 
iBook

Finder
Safari
Mail
Terminal
iTunes
QuickTime
Mplayer
X11
Fugu (gui ssh client)
Dreamweaver
Word
Remote Desktop
Cisco VPN
iCal
Address Book
System Preferences
iChat
X Resource Graph
Home folder
Applications folder
Sites folder
Trash
 

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I keep mine simple with my most used Apps. I put my Applications folder in my dock (blue sock) and just use it as a little programs menu.

I like to get a PC friend over and and launch my whole Applications folder and have like all 100 icons bouncing and then do an expose. You should see their jaw drop. :cool:
 

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Devie said:
Even though I still dont have a mac, I dont see the point in having a small dock. People say it looks cleaner, but damit its to make it easier and quicker acces to your aps.
Just like how people dont have icons on the desktop... what the hell is the point of the desktop then, just a pretty picture?
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This thread has inspired me to clean off my desktop (I had a clutter of maybe 10 icons). I see the desktop as a work area, not area for starting programs. I drag images and text onto the desktop for future use, put files that I am currently working on there, downloaded files go there before being filed away. I don't even have my HD on the desktop (I am considering putting it back though), but removable media still shows up. If the desktop is cluttered, then I find the files that I am working with start getting bunched up and the start getting in each others way. Plus why start programs from the desktop where you have to hide all your current windows to get to them. That is what the dock is for.
 
Jsmit said:
I see the desktop as a work area, not area for starting programs..
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I think the same way. Even on my XP desktop, I have maybe 2 icons. And about 20 in my quick luanch bar. My dock has maybe 6. I may be missing some, but if so its only like 2.

Finder
Camino
Mail
YahooMessenger
iTunes
Remote Desktop
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Trash
 
slooksterPSV said:
So far Bousozuko is winning. OMG that is a long list of apps. How often to you use them? I use pretty much all of mine. I don't use freehand very much, but its an application that is part of a suite so its worth it to have in the dock. I need to buy a new Mac so the apps load faster, but hey, there's not too bad of a lag on my machine, 233MHz (read siggy).
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I use almost everything weekly, except for HandBrake and some of the IM stuff. The internet applications, contact and calendaring applications, Photoshop and games I use daily. I switch between Freehand and Illustrator depending on the document since Freehand does multiple page documents and Illustrator doesn't. Freehand makes a mess of my Asian languages though, so I have to play games with Illustrator for anything Asian.

I took out a few things but the size of the icons hasn't increased. I'd probably have to take out half of the stuff for any significant change. I suppose I should just put the Graphics applications folder and the Developer applications folders in the Dock and it would save a lot of space. Plus, it would be more Windows-like. :eek: :D
 
Mine has firefox, safari, Adium, Address Book, iTunes, iPhoto, iCal, Acquisition, Terminal, Candybar, and X11. I can't see the point in having a huge dock really. The whole point of a dock is quick access to commonly used programs. For example, I use programs like Firestarter FX, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and iMovie every now and then... but not often enough that I want them cluttering my dock. I just use finder to launch them.

p.s. the fact that you actually have RealONe player on your computer... disgusting :rolleyes:
 
Devie said:
Even though I still dont have a mac, I dont see the point in having a small dock. People say it looks cleaner, but damit its to make it easier and quicker acces to your aps.
Just like how people dont have icons on the desktop... what the hell is the point of the desktop then, just a pretty picture?
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Just drop your Applications folder on your dock, right click and choose any app you want. Keeps the dock small, yet you can still access any app rather quickly.

I'll have to post a pick of my dock tonight. Mines at home :eek:
 
My dock is maybe medium in size, but it's only the things I use on a daily/semi-daily basis. To the right I keep alias folders of 'secondary apps', 'classic apps', 'administrative tools', and 'utilities', so I can get at anything from the dock.

Edit- I don't really agree with keeping frequently used items in a 'right-clickable' folder in the dock, because it definitely takes longer to get at. I do like it for secondary stuff though.
 

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Dock - Keep it clean (and useful!)

That's my Dock... I use all the apps in there at least once a day. Most of them I use all the time (as you can see).

Safari
Mail
Address Book
iTunes
iPhoto
iCal
Word
PowerPoint
Adium
Virtual PC
RDC
Acquisition
System Preferences
 

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Well you can use a program like iConverter to make your own icons and replace the standard ones.
 
Apps:
Safari
Mail
iCal
CheckBook
Preferences
Grab
Calculator
BackLight 2
TextEdit
Word
Virtual PC 7
iTunes
iMovie4
Final Cut Pro 3
iDVD 4
DVDSP 2
Toast 6
iPhoto
Photoshop CS
DVDpedia
GarageBand

Folders:
Secret Name (OSX Partitioned Drive) (this is OK Computer on my iMac G5)
Office 2004
Perelandra (Media Partitioned Drive) (this is Homogenic on my iMac G5)
Applications
Kid A (Backup Partitioned Drive) (this is on my iMac not my PB)
Games
Documents
 
Jsmit said:
This thread has inspired me to clean off my desktop (I had a clutter of maybe 10 icons). I see the desktop as a work area, not area for starting programs. I drag images and text onto the desktop for future use, put files that I am currently working on there, downloaded files go there before being filed away. I don't even have my HD on the desktop (I am considering putting it back though), but removable media still shows up. If the desktop is cluttered, then I find the files that I am working with start getting bunched up and the start getting in each others way. Plus why start programs from the desktop where you have to hide all your current windows to get to them. That is what the dock is for.
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I actually do the same as that, but I see people who never use it for anything, other than a picture...
 
Devie said:
I actually do the same as that, but I see people who never use it for anything, other than a picture...
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Hey Devie - I'm one of those people you mentioned... I have nothing at all on my Mac desktop.
 
lots of stuff i don't really use... i should clean some of it out. i just keep the stuff there so that i remember that it's there and to clean it out. :p

i used to have a spotless desktop as well (no HD icons, etc - nothing) but now i'm getting sloppy using it to quickly save small files to. :eek:
 

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One of my computers has only

Finder
Safari
System Prefs
Trash

I would take out System Prefs because it's in the Apple Menu, but not everyone who uses the computer remembers that.

Incidentally, this computer used to have about 28 items in the dock, until I cleaned it out.
 
KC9AIC said:
One of my computers has only

Finder
Safari
System Prefs
Trash

I would take out System Prefs because it's in the Apple Menu, but not everyone who uses the computer remembers that.

Incidentally, this computer used to have about 28 items in the dock, until I cleaned it out.
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Why don't these people have their own user accounts so they can have what they want in the Dock and you can have what you want there?
 
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