MarkDodgson.com | Designer, Geek, Wannabe Programmer » Apple Dock Solution http://markdodgson.com Geek / Web Designer / Wanna Be Programmer Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:41:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Replacing The Tired Apple Dock http://markdodgson.com/blog/replacing-the-tired-apple-dock/ http://markdodgson.com/blog/replacing-the-tired-apple-dock/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:08:50 +0000 mark http://markdodgson.com/?p=15 Is it just me or does the dock seem archaic. I really think Apple’s dock has become long in the tooth. I mean this dock just keeps getting longer and longer, and the program icons keep getting smaller and smaller. You know the problem. I thought it might be of interest to other apple users to discuss how I made my dock more bearable (maybe even enjoyable to use).

Now to achieve what I have created you must be running Leopard.

The first thing I did was download a copy of the infamous Quicksilver. I have to admit that it took me a couple of days to get used to the idea of launching applications with Quicksilver. Now I realize that this program goes far deeper than just being an application launcher, but that’s for another post.

Upon the loading of Quicksilver I removed all of my program icons from my dock. Wo Wo Wo, your probably thinking this guy must be crazy, but I have created a back-up solution in the case that Quicksilver crashes or doesn’t launch (hasn’t happened yet). I created a folder in my Applications folder entitled “_applications”. In this folder I have added alias’ of all my programs and added this folder as stack items with the ” Grid Launch” feature.

That’s it… This has been the most incredible solution for me. I no longer have dock clutter and launching applications and surfing my machine has never been faster.

If anyone has other solutions that they think others may be interested in, please feel free to comment. I would love to hear about them

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