Post Your Dock (2008)

[iMpathetic]

Can you guys put a small description of the apps, at least those not so common. It would be nice for me since I'm waiting to buy my first mac and switch. This would give me an idea of some cool apps i may be looking for.

Thanks in advance!

Certainly!!!

Finder= sort of like Explorer in windows, the file system program thingy
Dashboard= press a key or click the icon, and the screen changes to one full of useful little apps
Mail= Apple's e-mail client, it's actually pretty good
Safari= Apple's own browser, it's okay, a little slow though.
Firefox= another browser, I use it for handling desktop wallpaper.
Camino= my browser of choice. Fast, free, lightweight, stable, looks good
Skitch= Image handling program. It's kinda like Paint. However, you can webpost images, edit make great lolcats, and things like that.
iChat= Apple's AIM client, it rox
iTunes= Apple MP3 app, syncs iPods, you can buy music from the music store
iPhoto= neat little application for organizing photos
iMovie= nice and simple movie editing app
Word= Word
Address Book= stores contacts
Image Capture= selectively downloads images from cameras
iCal= sort of like Outlook, calendar/scheduling app
Quicktime= movie viewer
System Preferences= main application for changing system settings.

I hope you're happy. That took a while!

 

[G.I. Joe]

I hope you're happy. That took a while!

Oh my!! That was great. No need to detail onboard macosX apps.. From your dock the ones i did not know are skitch and image capture.. guess what? Now I do thanks to you.

 

[Everythingisnt]

Finder, Dashboard, System Prefs, Safari, Firefox, Word, iTunes, Garage Band, Comic Life, iPhoto, iMovie HD ('06), iDVD, iMovie '08, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Aperture, Photomatix Pro, qtpfsgui, Motion 3, Color, Compressor, Cinema Tools, LiveType, iSquint, MSN Messenger, Dictionary, Jing, Drawberry, X11, Blender, Maya, Switch, Audacity, Inkscape, Candy Bar, LimeWire, Quicksilver, aLunch, X Snapz Pro, Nocturne, DigitalColor Meter. Then a stack with all my utilities, some document stacks, and TRASH =)

 

[72930]

I know it's a quick... launcher.

Its much more than that, for example:

 

[puckhead193]

does anyone have a link to that installer app that had a few custom docks on it?

 

[iLao]

Finder, Dashboard, skitch, software update, OpenLieroX, Pocket tanks Deluxe, Ghost Recon, NFS Carbon, C&C 3, AoE III, GameRanger, Activity Monitor, iPhoto, Preview, iMovie, System preferences, TextEdit, iCal, iTunes, VLC, QuickTime player, GarageBand, Photo Booth, Azureus, Transmission, Parrallels Desktop(XP), aMSN, Safari, Firefox, Adium.

 

[iMpathetic]

Oh my!! That was great. No need to detail onboard macosX apps.. From your dock the ones i did not know are skitch and image capture.. guess what? Now I do thanks to you.

Well, thank you. I just figured I might as well be on the safe side though. Yeah, I kind of am bored right now.

 

[plumpan]

(from top to bottom)

- finder
- firefox
- thunderbird
- songbird
- skype
- ichat
- vlc
- tomato torrent
- word 2008
- excel 2008
- photoshop cs3
- illustrator cs3
- indesign cs3
- flash cs3
- dreamweaver cs3
- skitch
- textedit
- preview
- vmware fusion
- terminal
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- home folder stack
- utilities stack
- trash

i changed the preview icon, the office icons, and used adobe cs2 icons for cs3.

 

[mikes63737]

Here's mine.

From Left to Right:
Finder
Mail
Safari
iTunes
Pages
Coda
Trash

 

[G.I. Joe]

Finder, Dashboard, skitch, software update, OpenLieroX, Pocket tanks Deluxe, Ghost Recon, NFS Carbon, C&C 3, AoE III, GameRanger, Activity Monitor, iPhoto, Preview, iMovie, System preferences, TextEdit, iCal, iTunes, VLC, QuickTime player, GarageBand, Photo Booth, Azureus, Transmission, Parrallels Desktop(XP), aMSN, Safari, Firefox, Adium.

What is Transmission for?

 

[72930]

What is Transmission for?

Torrenting

 

[sprehodec]

from left to right:
Finder, Safari, Firefor, Messenger, iChat, Word, Excell and Powerpoint 2008, Photoshop cs3, InDesign cs3, Illustrator cs3, Flash cs3, Dreamweaver, Acrobat pro, Preview, Photo Booth, iWeb, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, Comic Life, iPhoto, iCal, iTunes, VLC, QT, DVD Player, Toast 8, System Preferences

 

[Burgess07]

Finder, Activity Monitor, Address Book, Adium, Automator, Calculator, Camino, Chess, Dashboard, Dictionary, DVD Player, Excel, Garageband, Google Earth, iCal, iChat, iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, iWeb, Keynote, Mail, Numbers, Pages, Photobooth, Pixelmator, Powerpoint, Preview, Quicktime, Safari, Seashore, Spaces, System Preferences, TextEdit, Time Machine, VLC, Word

 

[Bonsai1214]

my bastard of a kobhens dock..

if someone can point me out as to how to change my finder and trash icons, i'd greatly appreciate it. i've already tried the terminal commands, changing the pngs, changing the icns, etc.

if someone can pm me their own instructions (not those from a website), that would probably be the easiest way. thanks

 

[apfhex]

Pretty standard. Have a few custom resources taken from New Dock. Apps that might not be recognized: Adium (the black orb), Coda (leaf), VLC (orange cone... custom icon)

 

[techlover828]

how do you change the icon under open applications (what used to be a triangle)

 

[Muzzway]

• Finder
• Dashboard
• Safari
• Mail
• iChat
• iCal
• iTunes
• iMovie
• Tropico Mucho Macho
• Garageband
• Sims 2
• iPhoto
• Google Earth
• Activity Monitor
• Dictionary
• Photobooth
• TextEdit (Pages soon)
• Paintbrush
• System Prefrences
• TubeTV

 

[Bonsai1214]

how do you change the icon under open applications (what used to be a triangle)

whats the big q?

anyways
system > library > coreservices > dock.app *right click* show contents,
indicators

 

[eetu]

i've noticed some people have different icons for the cs3 apps. how do you change that? the ones by default are horrible.

 

[plumpan]

i've noticed some people have different icons for the cs3 apps. how do you change that? the ones by default are horrible.

i totally agree that the original cs3 icons are incredibly bland and uninspired. if you look at my dock a few posts back, you will notice that i used the adobe cs2 icons (which you can find online pretty easily) and just switched em with the cs3 icons. there was no flash or dreamweaver cs2 icons, so i used the bridge cs2 icon for flash cs3 , and some other cs2 leaf icon for dreamweaver cs3.

 

[RainCityMacFan]

i totally agree that the original cs3 icons are incredibly bland and uninspired. if you look at my dock a few posts back, you will notice that i used the adobe cs2 icons (which you can find online pretty easily) and just switched em with the cs3 icons. there was no flash or dreamweaver cs2 icons, so i used the bridge cs2 icon for flash cs3 , and some other cs2 leaf icon for dreamweaver cs3.

http://www.artofadambetts.com/weblog/?p=190

Has some good artwork but there are no instructions but if you look in the comments you might find some. I think you just replace the icon in the Resource folders though.

 

[richard.mac]

my dock on the bottom-left of the desktop. slimmed it down a little.


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the adium icon is an ichat replacement from the Xtras and the icon next to Numbers is microsoft Project Gallery from office 2008. stacks are downloads, documents and applications with aliases of apps & utilities not in the dock. the rest of the icons are self explanatory.

 

[jabrowntx]

I went with a more minimalist approach than I had before...thanks to Stacks in Leopard.

 

[techlover828]

whats the big q?

anyways
system > library > coreservices > dock.app *right click* show contents,
indicators

http://quickshareit.com/ great app

changed my dock again, I used DockChanger

 

[Applepi]

my bastard of a kobhens dock..

if someone can point me out as to how to change my finder and trash icons, i'd greatly appreciate it.

Download an app called LiteIcon, you can drag and drop any png into the program to change any icon. Just found this out yesterday