[Mascon]

k heres a little forum on whats in your dock from left to right. Just getting ideas on what to download. any sugjections? Heres mine!

-Finder
-Quick Sliver
-Safari
-Mozilla FireFox
-iChat
-Skype
-Mail
Address Book
-iCal
-iTunes
-Garage Band
-iPhoto
-iWeb
-Rapid Weaver
-iMovie
-iDVD
-DVD Player
-Windows Media Player
-QuickTime Pro
-VLC
-Word
-Keynote
-Pages
-Dictionary
-Calculator
-Handbrake
-Halo
-WarCraft III
-Acusition
-ffmpegx
-Photoshop CS2
-App Zapper
-Preview

I just want to know the apps your using. How your dock is setup and all. Your turn!

[msuper69]

Finder (duh)
Activity Monitor
Adobe Reader
Address Book
Automator
Backup
Calculator
Canoscan
Console
Dashboard
Disk Utility
DVD Player
Excel
GarageBand
Grab
iCal
iChat AV
iDVD
iMovie 4
iMovie HD 6
iPhoto
iTunes
iWeb
Mail
Memory Monitor
Netscape
PhotoBooth
PhotoShop
Popcorn
Preview
PrintCD
QuickTime Player
Realplayer
Safari
Stylus Photo R200
Stickies
System Preferences
Terminal
Textedit
Toast 6
VPC
Word

[]

Finder - Firefox - Adium - iTunes - Transmission - ProTools LE

Anything else I need I use Quicksilver to launch.

[Sage]

Finder • Mail • Safari • iTunes

Like , I use Quicksilver to launch anything else I need. I like to keep things nice and tidy.

[MindFad]

[AmericanPsych0]

[rdf8585]

Finder
Dashboard
Safari
iChat
Neo Office
Onyx
DVD Player
iTunes
QuickTime
Real Player
VLC Player
System Prefs

[SLiMeX]

Finder - Camino - Adium - Trash

[cybergoober]

My Dock shows only the apps that are currently running. I use Quicksilver as my app launcher.

[jmgriff]

I use Quicksilver all the time. Apps I always seem to have open stay in the dock, though:

- Finder
- iTunes
- Camino
- Mail
- Cocoalicious
- Colloquy
- NetNewsWire
- Terminal
- jEdit
- Activity Monitor
- Console

[normdzn]

What is Quicksilver?

- FInder
- Dashboard
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Go Live CS
- Adobe Illustrator CS
- Adobe InDesign CS
- Adobe Photoshop CS
- IE
- Safari
- QuarkXpress
- MSWord
- MS Excel
- Font Book
- iCal
- Toast
- iPhoto
- iMovie
- iDVD
- Flightcheck
- iTunes
- Print Monitor
- System Preferences
- Home
- Trash

[cybergoober]

Quicksilver

Quicksilver is hard to describe. I mainly use it as a launcher. You hit a hot key combo to bring up a search window then start typing the name of what you wish to launch. When you have found what you wanted to launch you hit Return and the app or file or whatever launches. It also learns from your selections so that if you type in "sa" and select Safari, Safari will be selected the next time you type in "sa" in the search window. Quicksilver does so much more, though. Like creating triggers that can launch apps or perform functions when you hit a key combo.

[PHYMAC]

Here's Mine

[Chase265]

newb question....does the amount of what you have in the dock affect performance of the computer at all?

[blackbird_1.0]

Finder
iTerm
InCrease (Folding@Home)

Safari
Mail
Adium
X-Chat Aqua
Bits on Wheels
Acqlite
iTunes

Jomic
Preview
iPhoto
Gimp
Inkscape
Freecell
LEGO© Star Wars
VueScan

[version]

[Macanoid]

After reboot these are active:

Quicksilver
MoRu
DevonThink Pro
iTunes
Mail
NewsFire
Safari

All the rest is done through Quicksilver.

[normdzn]

Originally Posted by cybergoober

Quicksilver

Quicksilver is hard to describe. I mainly use it as a launcher. You hit a hot key combo to bring up a search window then start typing the name of what you wish to launch. When you have found what you wanted to launch you hit Return and the app or file or whatever launches. It also learns from your selections so that if you type in "sa" and select Safari, Safari will be selected the next time you type in "sa" in the search window. Quicksilver does so much more, though. Like creating triggers that can launch apps or perform functions when you hit a key combo.

Cool, is it an application you can download? It sounds like the "spotlight" in Tiger, right?

[normdzn]

Originally Posted by PHYMAC

Here's Mine

What are those last three icons before the trash? Are those icons or apps? Or games even?

[normdzn]

Originally Posted by Chase265

newb question....does the amount of what you have in the dock affect performance of the computer at all?

Doubt it but not certain.

[mpancha]

[Catfish_Man]

Originally Posted by normdzn

What are those last three icons before the trash? Are those icons or apps? Or games even?

They're in the files/folders section of the Dock, so I'd guess that they're files or folders, not apps

[PHYMAC]

Originally Posted by normdzn

What are those last three icons before the trash? Are those icons or apps? Or games even?

There are just folders for like my documents and pictures and stuff.

[cybergoober]

Originally Posted by normdzn

Cool, is it an application you can download? It sounds like the "spotlight" in Tiger, right?

If you click the link I posted you will be taken the Quicksilver product page. On this page is a download link (among other things). It is really nothing like Spotlight. I mean, I guess it is similar in that you can search for and launch things with it, but that's where the similarity ends. Quicksilver is much more flexible and extensible, especially with the various plugins available.

[mjames]

IMO, more dock icons does not equal better! With apps like Launchbar (which I use) and Quicksilver, there isn't a need for dock icons at all, but I still keep apps I use on a daily basis down there:

Finder, Safari, Mail, iTunes, iChat, NetNewsWire, MarsEdit, Transmit, Word, Photoshop CS2

[DigitalEl]

Finder, iCal, Address Book, Mail, Safari, iWeb, iTunes, iPhoto, Trash

I like a clean Desktop.

I used to use Spotlight as a launcher and liked it. I've since reverted to LaunchBar, because it works. Spotlight hasn't worked on my G5 iMac for the past 5 or 6 months and I'm not reinstalling the OS just to fix that. Stupid random problems are why I switched, but I guess you never can completely escape them.

[stwain2003]

Finder
Dashboard
Mail
Safari
iChat
Address Book
Pages
Keynote
iTunes
iPhoto
iMovie
iDVD
Garageband
iWeb
Excel
Word
PowerPoint
DVD Player
LimeWire
Google Earth
TextEdit
Calculator
iCal
Quicktime
System Prefs
My Music Folder
Trash

[jere_69]

Finder
Dashboard
iPhoto
iCal
Quicktime
Quicksilver
Address Book
Adium
System Preferences
Mail
eReader
Safari
Delicious Library
StickyBrains
VLC
NetNewsWire
Ecto
Camino
iTunes
Zinio Reader
Trash
My Downloads

[MRTrauffer]

[hookem2oo7]

[jbleisure]

I use Overflow to lauch apps from the dock (The icon right of Safari)

[Potatohead]

-Finder
-System Preferences
-Photoshop Elements
-itunes
-Appleworks
-Dreamweaver
-imovie
-Dictionary
-ichat
-Quicktime
-Preview
-Flash

[blackbird_1.0]

On new MacBook:

Finder, Quicksilver, and Trash.

[Adam Betts]

I use Overflow too, nice alt dock app.

[monkeybrain]

I have now made my Dock as minimal as possible, it has: Finder, iTunes, Camino, Trash.
I've realised I only use a handful of apps, and for most of these I have set up a hotkey to
launch it via Butler (for instance, to launch Skype I just type option-t). Any other apps
I just open with Spotlight.

[Adam Betts]

Originally Posted by monkeybrain

I have now made my Dock as minimal as possible, it has: Finder, iTunes, Camino, Trash.
I've realised I only use a handful of apps, and for most of these I have set up a hotkey to
launch it via Butler (for instance, to launch Skype I just type option-t). Any other apps
I just open with Spotlight.

Have you tried Quicksilver yet? It seems to be more suited for your needs than Spotlight and possibly Butler.

http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/

[nbnz]

[real]

Originally Posted by normdzn

Cool, is it an application you can download? It sounds like the "spotlight" in Tiger, right?

But a ton faster

[monkeybrain]

Originally Posted by Adam Betts

Have you tried Quicksilver yet? It seems to be more suited for your needs than Spotlight and possibly Butler.

http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/

Actually, Butler is better for my needs. I would only use Quicksilver if I wanted its (admittedly powerful) ability to manipulate files within
its interface (rather than just opening them). Butler can be tailored so it uses less memory than QS, and in my 6 month experience
(vs. 2 + years of Butler use), QS is more unstable. Configuring things like the multiple pasteboard is easier in Butler too, you can also
put a websearch in the menubar, and I much prefer it's interaction with iTunes (I use growl too, but think Butler provides a better notification system).

As you can tell, I like Butler quite a lot... and it does deserve more press.

(edit: can someone shrink those long images down? It's quite hard to read stuff in this thread now).

[sc_markt]

Originally Posted by monkeybrain

Actually, Butler is better for my needs. I would only use Quicksilver if I wanted its (admittedly powerful) ability to manipulate files within
its interface (rather than just opening them). Butler can be tailored so it uses less memory than QS, and in my 6 month experience
(vs. 2 + years of Butler use), QS is more unstable. Configuring things like the multiple pasteboard is easier in Butler too, you can also
put a websearch in the menubar, and I much prefer it's interaction with iTunes (I use growl too, but think Butler provides a better notification system).

As you can tell, I like Butler quite a lot... and it does deserve more press.

(edit: can someone shrink those long images down? It's quite hard to read stuff in this thread now).

I also just started using Butler and its really been growing on me. I really like the way it puts icons of open apps in the menubar and if you click on one of them, you get that app. This is almost a solution to Taskmenubar.

Now that I'm using Butler, my dock just has the finder, the Apple clock in analog display, Netstatindock and loadstatindock. I just need two other good dock apps: A cpu display and a memory display (something along the lines of menemeters. I really like menumeters but my screen is only 15" and with Butler using more of my menubar, I had to get rid of something.).

Mark

[slpdLoad]

Finder
Mail
Safari
Adium
Text Edit
iTunes
Halo
VLC
Aperture
Sound Studio
Trash

[stwain2003]

[kyles_mac]

Finder
Adium
Entourage
Firefox
Acrobat
Indesign
Illustrator
Photoshop
Extensis Suitcase X1
iTunes
iCal

[red rocket]

- Finder
- System Preferences
- Mail
- Adium
- Safari
- Acquisition
- Font Book
- Linotype FontExplorer X
- Nisus Thesaurus
- TextEdit
- Jers Novel Writer
- TextWrangler
- iCal
- Preview
- GraphicConverter
- Compositor
- Seashore
- StudioArtist™ Demo
- Pixen
- Iconographer
- iTunes
- Movie Grab
- QuickTime Player
- mpgtxwrap
- Relax
- Calculator
- bullet
- Network Statistics
- Trash

[Heavy Fluid]

Finder
Safari
iTunes
Firefox
Limewire
Appleworks
Quicken
Address Book
Moto4lin
Dashboard
Alias (printer)
iPhoto
iSync
iCal
System Preferences

[I WAS the One]

Finder
Suitcase Fusion
OverFlow (Every App it's there!)
Mail
Home
Trash

[abbaZaba]

Finder - Overflow - Namely - Camino - Adium - iTunes - KDX Server - Trash

[brassplayersrock²]

Finder, Dashboard, QuickTime Player, DVD Player, iChat, Safari, iMovie HD, iPhoto, Drag-N-Scale, Preview, Pages, Keynote, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, TextEdit, Dictionary, Stickies, Audio Midi Setup, GarageBand, iTunes, HandBrake, Senuti, Bluetooth File Exchange, psc 1200 series, than after the little seperation bar: Macintosh HD, LaCie 300, Trash.

i have hard disks hidden so that there is NOTHING on my desktop, hence the links to the hard drives in the dock
also, it's just so nice having to just drag things to the printer icon and it just prints.

ALeX

[Curiosity]

Finder
iPhoto
GraphicConverter
iCal
Quicktime
Photo Booth
System Preferences
Stuffit Expander
Textwrangler
Thunderbird
Firefox
CocoaWget
Terminal
MenuShade

[msuper69]

Kind of silly but the thread title always reminds me of those Capital One TV ads.