[digiology2]

You can setup the applications folder to be opened up when you press the finder icon on the dock if you go to the finde preferences.

I kind of agree with the first poster, I prefer having all apps (or all the ones i want accesible) in a menu. This was something I missed from classic, the applications part of the apple menu and the fact that you could customize the apple menu.

[theolein]

Originally posted by egg:
thanks for the tips. It's a little hard sometimes, knowing what is the most efficient way to these things.

cheers.

Hi, welcome, btw. You can think of the Dock as being a kind of mix between the Windows task bar (open applications show up there with a little black arrow underneath them, however, open documents are not placed there in order to avoid clutter) and the Quicklaunch bar, which you might know about in Windows, where you can drag applications, document and folder shortcuts (applications to the left of the seperator, documents and folders to the right of it). I just alway drag the entire Applications folder to the Dock and right click that shortcut every time I want an app (That's about the closest you'll get to the Windows Start button)

[ghotirking]

Originally posted by egg:
very much so! I had one day where I was confused... hence this post. Now, I'm working away quite happily without a care in the world. :-)

------> Current fav. mac moment: put the powerbook to sleep in a dark room and watch the sleep LED 'breath' !!! :-o

It's always the little things that bring the most joy, isn't it?

[ngrundy]

well i've been converted for the most part. but not to launchbar! to something even better, imho (mainly because it's free). QuickSilver.
http://blacktree.com/apps/quicksilver/