danielredbeard’s weblog


What’s Up, Doc?
March 11, 2008, 10:50 am
Filed under: design (and branding)

I thought it would be interesting to list what’s in my doc, and hear what is in other people’s docs.

For the non-Mac follk: The doc is is a Mac thing. It’s where we launch our programs from. You can place your doc at the bottom, left or right side, and it can always be present or only appear when you mouse-over the area. Also, there is a magnification setting that causes the program icon to enlarge as you mouse-over each icon. I don’t do that, but it’s there if you want it.

So… to start, here’s a pic of my doc:

Here’s a list of what’s here:

  1. Finder
  2. iCal
  3. Mail
  4. Firefox
  5. Safari
  6. CyberDuck (FTP Client)
  7. iChat
  8. Adobe Illustrator CS3
  9. Adobe Photoshop CS3
  10. Adobe InDesign CS3
  11. Adobe Dreamweaver CS3
  12. Adobe Flash CS3
  13. Adobe Acrobat CS3
  14. Preview
  15. iPhoto
  16. PhotoBooth
  17. Linotype FontExplorer X (a free font management utility!)
  18. MS Word
  19. MS Excel
  20. MS Powerpoint
  21. VLC (a free video player, lets you take screen grabs – iDVD does not.)
  22. TextEdit
  23. Address Book
  24. Printer Utility
  25. System Preferences
  26. Disk Utility
  27. SafeEyes
  28. Time Machine

Anyone else care to show? Is there something like this on a Windows machine? If not, why not get a Mac?!?

1 Comment

1 Comment so far
Leave a comment

Good idea! Here’s my list and a link to the image of my dock. I keep mine vertical on the left side of the screen so I get more horizontal real estate.

1) Finder
2) Mail
3) Safari
4) Firefox
5) Adium
6) TaskPaper
7) iCal
8) Address Book
9) iTunes
10) iPhoto
11) Pages ‘08
12) Numbers ‘08
13) TextMate
14) Xcode
15) Cyberduck
16) Windows Remote Desktop Client
17) Terminal
18) Parallels Desktop
19) Outlook 2007 (bleh–have to use it for work)
20) System Preferences
21) Safe Eyes
22) Applications stack
23) Documents stack
24) Downloads stack

http://www.forwheelers.net/blog/images/iMac-Dock.png

There is a little add-on software package you can install on Windows that gives you “dock-like” functionality. I don’t use it but my boss does (on Vista). It’s called RocketDock, it’s free, and you can find it at http://RocketDock.com

Comment by Chris March 14, 2008 @ 8:05 am
Reply


RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI


Leave a comment
Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <pre> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>