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Aug 3, 2006, 11:50 PM
 
every time i walk in the apple store i see that they have a dock like thing in the middle of the screen like this Pic

i just wanna know cuz its been buggin me alot that i cant do it lol thx in advance...macnn rules!!!!!
     
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Aug 4, 2006, 12:04 AM
 
Your link doesn't work.

IIRC Apple runs a special program on the Macs in their stores that sounds like what you're describing.
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Aug 4, 2006, 12:32 AM
 
I know what you're talking about. I ask one of the employees about it once and he said it was a piece of proprietary software developed in-house just for the apple stores. A friend and I looked on the machines to see if it was an application we could copy, but it wasn't. Some enterprising deveoper needs to make somthing like that. Maybe it'll be a leopard feature.
     
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Aug 4, 2006, 12:59 AM
 
Umm ... are you guys talking about Command+Tab? That looks exactly like Command+Tab.

Edit: By the way, the fixed link is http://www.deviantart.com/view/37389915/
     
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Aug 4, 2006, 10:27 AM
 
No, it's not command+tab. It looks different from that link. The thing we're talking about is a rounded rectange that holds documents and is stuck to the desktop layer in the center of the screen.
     
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Aug 4, 2006, 11:20 AM
 
If you want that menu, don't you just program the mouse your using, so when you click the scroll wheel it does that inbetween apps?
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Aug 4, 2006, 12:12 PM
 
No, the link looks exactly like Command+Tab. Those aren't documents you're seeing in the link anyway, they're applications.

Do point out how the appearance differs.
     
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Aug 4, 2006, 12:20 PM
 
Yes it looks like Command+Tab to me also
     
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Aug 4, 2006, 12:37 PM
 
The linked picture is command-tab. The program they have in Apple Stores is a proprietary thing that (if I recall) can't easily be copied and wouldn't be terribly useful even if you could.
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Aug 4, 2006, 02:27 PM
 
It does look like command-tab, but unlike the switcher it remains resident on the screen. And as Chuckit points out, it wouldn't be too useful as a general feature anyway.

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Aug 4, 2006, 02:29 PM
 
Out of curiousity why would someone use this over the dock?
     
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Aug 4, 2006, 02:42 PM
 
It looks like command + tab
     
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Aug 5, 2006, 03:16 PM
 
try docktop. it looks like that, which can be draggable, and can hold files + apps.
     
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Aug 5, 2006, 05:19 PM
 
^^
yep, that's what the thing in the apple stores look like.
     
   
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