Dock Dodger - easily hide running apps from the Dock

#8 - You're an idiot. Next time, if you're going to be rude, be right.

macman84... do you actually really own a mac? maybe you have a custom version of osx that you'd like to share with us? :)

@macman84/#13:
If I right-click on an app while it's running and select "Remove from Dock", it still shows up in the Dock while it's running. How are you hiding running apps?

#4, I'm on an Intel Mac, and Dockless works just fine.

I know what you mean. Mac OS X supports the ability to hide the icon of a running application so it does not appear on the dock while it is running. I am not an idiot and I know what i am talking about. I looked at the features of this app, Mac OS X does the exact same features nativly and I bet this program even uses those commands to do what it does.

Scratch that--it does have the option to force apps to show their icon in the dock (though I tried it with Play Sound as a test and it did absolutely nothing).

"For being a dominantly mac weblog, I think you would already know that this program is pointless and does what Mac OS X already does. Just go to an application that is open on the dock. Click and hold, then select "Remove from Dock" from the menu. Making this another pointless program."

You are obviously missing the point of what this program does. It modifies programs so that their dock icons don't show while they are running. This is useful for things you never have frontmost and run in the background all day.

As a side note, Dockless is much better, as it allows you to force applications to show up in the dock as well (TheUnarchiver comes to mind).

This works for me. I work at a place where my boss thinks using iTunes is evil...but we're allowed to listen to music, anyway.
The more effectively I can hide iTunes, the better!

Dave- I have the feature being used on a couple different apps right now (like SMC fan control) and only one of them is an Apple app (dashboard).. It works with every single application I have.

#7: That works for Dashboard on a fresh Mac OS X 10.4 install because Apple built that feature in specifically for that app. It doesn't work with any other apps I have running in the Dock, including Camino, iChat, Yojimbo, iTunes, EyeTV and Xtorrent.

To be clear: this trick allows you to *run an app that would typically appear in the Dock* without a Dock icon. It isn't a way to simply remove non-running apps from the Dock.