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My Dock, curious about others.

Here's mine
Finder
Mail
Safari
Adressbook
iTunes
TextEdit
Thunderbird
Firefox
Flash MX
Quicktime
Preferences
Diablo 2
Open office
LimeWire (changed the icon to "melonWire")
Prewiev
Abdobe photshop (also changed icon)
Msn
Not so very much to be proud of....
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
Hey Devie - I'm one of those people you mentioned... I have nothing at all on my Mac desktop.
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Well I dont like you then :p
Anyway you just owned me with having a mac in the first place
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. Ah well I should have one soon enough...
 
Ok, I'll play along. I use my dock not only for programs I use often, but also for programs that I prefer to launch by dragging files into the dock.

Finder
iChat
Safari
Internet Explorer (I need it for a school website, so shush) :p
Mail
Address Book
Word
Excel
Quicken 2005
Photoshop
Image Ready
InDesign
Acrobat
Preview
Graphic Converter
iTunes
Toast
iPhoto
iCal
Snood
Calculator
Text Edit
Grab
Acquisition
Transmit
Terminal
System Preferences
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Home Folder
Applications Folder
Documents Folder
Pictures Folder
Trash
 

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Here's my work dock--pretty similar except for the addition of Entourage, and my network drives.
 

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nosen said:
Here's my work dock--pretty similar except for the addition of Entourage, and my network drives.
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I can identify all but 3 of those programs - the 3 between Acrobat Reader and GraphicConverter I've never seen before (at least the icons).
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
Is Snood Mac OS X native yet? I liked that game for Mac OS 9, but never bothered registering it and never played it as much as I played other games.
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Yes, it's now OSX native. :D
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
I can identify all but 3 of those programs - the 3 between Acrobat Reader and GraphicConverter I've never seen before (at least the icons).
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Photoshop CS, ImageReady CS, InDesign CS
 
It's strange to me how so many people have their dock icons set at such a large size- no matter how many icons you've got in their, it's the vertical space that really matters to me- the space that gets wasted when you've got your dock set to 'big honkin icon' size. I keep a lot of items in my dock, but removing a lot of them wouldn't save me any screen real estate vertically. I do like to keep my icon size tiny- if you can't tell what the icon is at a really small size, it's not a very good icon.
 
decksnap said:
It's strange to me how so many people have their dock icons set at such a large size- no matter how many icons you've got in their, it's the vertical space that really matters to me- the space that gets wasted when you've got your dock set to 'big honkin icon' size. I keep a lot of items in my dock, but removing a lot of them wouldn't save me any screen real estate vertically. I do like to keep my icon size tiny- if you can't tell what the icon is at a really small size, it's not a very good icon.
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How about setting the dock to the left or right instead of the bottom of the screen? That would gain vertical space, at the expense of horizontal space. Alternatively, you could turn on auto-hide for the Dock. There's a third option, too, which solves all of the problems you mention at once: set the dock size to its smallest, set magnification to its largest, and turn on auto-hide for the Dock.
 
Well because auto-hide is no good- it's not quick enough, and you can't really see what icon you're going for until it pops up- and using the left and right is no good for me because it's harder on both the eyes and the mouse to scan vertically instead of horizontally.

I don't have a problem, because my dock is tiny height-wise, I was just wondering about others who have such girthy docks.
 
decksnap said:
Well because auto-hide is no good- it's not quick enough, and you can't really see what icon you're going for until it pops up- and using the left and right is no good for me because it's harder on both the eyes and the mouse to scan vertically instead of horizontally.

I don't have a problem, because my dock is tiny height-wise, I was just wondering about others who have such girthy docks.
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Maybe a little magnification would help you see what icon you're going for while still keeping the Dock tiny and visible at all times when it's not being used - that is, unless you've turned it on already.
 
I have fifteen in there, put in category order:

Finder
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Browsers - Safari, Camino, Firefox
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Mail
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IM - Adium, Skype
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Music - iTunes, Garageband
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Pictures - iPhoto, Preview
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Organisers - Address Book, iCal
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Text Edit
Sys Prefs
Trash

All the rest is accessed with Butler either by search (ctrl-space then type) or from the menu I have next to the Bluetooth menu bar thing.
 

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My work dock consists of 25 boring apps and four folders (Home, Documents, current project, and Applications). At home, I have only the daily and/or super-quick-access (Calculator) apps in the Dock, but I have an extra folder full of aliases for the applications I use frequently, but not all the time. A click-and-hold on tha folder, and I've got relatively quick access to the second-tier apps. Add the Apps folder for the rarely used ones, and everything's covered!

wrldwzrd89 said:
How about setting the dock to the left or right instead of the bottom of the screen? That would gain vertical space, at the expense of horizontal space.
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It's funny, especially with a widescreen monitor it would make WAY more sense to have the dock down the side of the screen, but for some reason I just seem to like it more on the bottom. There's less distance to cover on average, I suppose, though I really should try it on the right.
 
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