Dockables: Control your Mac from your Dock

He "borrowed" the sleep display code from here.

http://linestreet.googlepages.com/sleepdisplayapplication

He should be more respectful of other programmers.

Can the display dockable differentiate between multiple displays? I wanna buy a new iMac, however, I'd like to disable its monitor when I run movies to my projector from it. So far I've found no way to do this. Can this thing turn off the iMac display without killing the signal going to my projector? If so, Steve Jobs will get by $2,500.

This looks pretty cool. A lot of times I move between watching something in bed and going to my computer. This could be pretty useful in a situation for controlling music and turning the computer off when I read in bed and want to go to sleep.

-tom
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Nice idea. Couple of observations. The sound mute is great but would be even better if it also switched the sound back on. Had a lot of problems with the reboot and shut down.....for some reason I started getting a message that Force Quit would not quit! Well go figure on that one!

good job jon!

best thing: didn't know you can place any app in the finder window bar and open files by draggin on the icon. just found out through this dockables manual. amazing! saw this nowhere before. saves a lot of draggin' across the screen.

the icons are really very ugly. someone got better ones?

Ok so I just revamped the icons in my own version to blend better with Finder & Aqua.

I call the theme "Aqua Slate" :)

http://www.jonandesign.com/downloads/dockables_aquaslate_1_0.zip

Inside the zip there are ICNS files that you can use to replace the dockables icons. Enjoy, and let me know your thoughts!

Also here's my website *shameless plug* http://www.jonandesign.com/

I quite like the idea, and few would be handy on my laptop (restart, power off, eject, and screen capture).

However, stylistically they clash with the Finder style (too large, not brushed metal). I'm not going to use them for this reason.

These would be superb if they shared the current OS X style.

That looks pretty slick. I'm living abroad for the time being and until Apple hurries up and releases a European iPhone I'll be stuck jealously admiring your "don't need to run across the house to pause the music" wizardry.

Hopefully that'll all change in a few months ;-)

@Steve, I get what you are saying. But seriously, these are AppleScripts. They aren't bad or anything. Nothing in these dockables can't be done from Quicksilver if you just enable 1 or 2 plugins (they might be turned on by default). The only thing that is "special" in here is sleep monitor, which I'm sure is the exact thing that Sleep Display is (which uses a run only AppleScript).

As for being constructive, maybe you should check out my .tapp "Uniremote" (http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis-tapps/wiki/Uniremote) for the iPhone Remote/Telekinesis Project (http://code.google.com/p/telekinesis/). If you have an iPhone (or just want to control your mac with another computer then why don't you try it. It too, is just a bunch of AppleScripts. (I also made Now Playing which you can find there too)