Ummm...transparent dock anyone?!

[JPP]

Hey there

I have done a search (promise) but I can't seem to find how to make the dock background transparent. I was looking through the desktop images that members have posted and some look amazing especially those where the dock icons aren't againast the ubiquitous blue/grey background. I thought Tinker Tool allowed one to make the dock transaprent but it doesn't seem to be working for me.

Does anyone know how I can have the dock icons resting beautifully against my desktop background?

Also, whilst I'm here - what app is the duck icon for? I can't seem to find out which it is...

Thanks for any help

best

J

 

[NJuul]

ClearDock (guess what it does)

The duck is Adium, which is a brilliant and very customizeable OS X instant messenger client that connects to MSN, Yahoo, AIM, etc.

 

[mkrishnan]

The duck is Adium.

If you have an Intel mac, your major option for a transparent dock is ClearDock.

If you have a PPC mac, you have an additional option of TransparentDock.

 

[epochblue]

Two programs that I'm aware of:

TransparentDock and
ClearDock (equires the APE)

Edit: D'oh! Beaten to it...

 

[killmoms]

Two programs that I'm aware of:

TransparentDock and
ClearDock (equires the APE)

Edit: D'oh! Beaten to it...

mkrishnan has the fastest fingers on the board.

 

[arkitect]

Late submitted info deleted

 

[JPP]

Wow! Thanks guys.

Is there one of the apps that you would recommend? I have a MBP C2D bought in Dec '06.
Just looked 'em up and I will use Clear Dock!

Thanks again for all your help - brilliant!

J

 

[Sdashiki]

Im waiting for transparentdock to catch up to intel.

Cleardock and the APE....

dont get me started on APE....

 

[mkrishnan]

Njuul beat even me to it!

Although I do have to say Adium is sweet. Love it, people, love it.

 

[NJuul]

Njuul beat even me to it!

Although I do have to say Adium is sweet. Love it, people, love it.

hehe... I got fast fingers when trying to avoid doing some real work!
And I agree (most does, I believe), Adium is great.

 

[JPP]

Im waiting for transparentdock to catch up to intel.

Cleardock and the APE....

dont get me started on APE....

What is APE? Should I not use Cleardock? Oh no - now I'm getting paranoid. I don't download a lot of apps because I don't want my system busted up!

Is Cleardock safe to use?

Thanks again

J

 

[NJuul]

What is APE? Should I not use Cleardock? Oh no - now I'm getting paranoid. I don't download a lot of apps because I don't want my system busted up!

Is Cleardock safe to use?

Thanks again

J

APE is Application Enhancer, I think it comes with the ClearDock installation image file.
I personally haven't had any problems with it, but I only used ClearDock briefly, as it turned out that I liked the grey background, and thus removed it along with APE.

I suggest you download and install ClearDock, if you don't like it, you just remove it again. No harms done.
With your machine, you won't notice any slowdown. (because there will not be any )