Palette lunchware app customizes Leopard dock

In honor of the holiday weekend, when many of us overate ourselves into food comas, I'm coining a word to describe a class of shareware apps: "lunchware," those programs inexpensive enough that you could buy them for what you might otherwise spend on lunch. If it's less than $12, it's lunchware, so Cocoamug's new Leopard dock customization tool Palette meets the standard (€6.90, or about $10.20). For less than the cost of a burger and a beer (at least by NYC prices) you can get several Leopard interface tweak tools in one little app.

For those who have followed Mat's previous posts on drawer-izing the Dock and creating your own custom drawer icons, Palette lets you quickly swap your own drawer icons in for your stacks (or downloaded icons from a pro) without any messing about. You can also turn dock transparency or 3D effects off, change your Dock or menubar colors, and turn off the dreaded menubar transparency. The unregistered version leaves a little palette micro-icon on your drawers to remind you to register.

via Cocoia -- thanks Sebastiaan

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Source: http://www.cocoamug.com/palette/index.html

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Chris Millsap

I know Alex, his color-dock program is great. You should all go to Alex's site. It is really cool. People, if you have Leopard, get colordock. Plus, it is free.
:-)

January 29 2008 at 10:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

gazerbeam

I still can't get my SIDE-view dock to be transparent. All I want is a set of floating icons on the side with no background at all. I got rid of the line that surrounds it, and the separator line, but I can't get rid of the bg. I've tried programs and hacks and deleting png files but these all seem to work only on the bottom-view dock and not the side view.

November 28 2007 at 10:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michael Rose

Just NYC prices, that's all. :-(

November 26 2007 at 12:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

paul

$12 for lunch? TUAW must be paying you nicely. Ha!

November 26 2007 at 12:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Leon Barrett

R_K, take a look at my blog. I have modified all the dates of the icons to 2011. Then add them to you stack and select, sort by Date Modified. To get it to work, right click on the stack from the dock, rather than within the folder.

http://www.blog.sizzla-media.co.uk/index.php/2007/11/15/update-pretty-up-those-stacks/

hope this helps

November 26 2007 at 11:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Justin

I tried it and the Dock part worked great. But when I tried the menubar part (even though I actually love the translucent menubar, so whatever), it crashed my MBP. Every time. I had to do a hard restart to get out of it.

Fwiw.

November 25 2007 at 4:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Christina Warren

This looks intriguing. I'm going to wait for Candy Bar 3 - which promises dock customization and is supposed to be out by the end of the month (I think it'll be mid-December, but I'd love to be totally, totally wrong on that one). If I hadn't bought my CB license in September, I'd give Palette serious consideration though.

November 25 2007 at 3:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alex

Sorry, i made a mistake its modamac.com/?q=colordock

November 25 2007 at 3:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

john russell

I don't think I'll really ever be fully satisfied until I can have my pixel-perfect Tiger dock back. If only this app could do that, then they would have my cash.

November 25 2007 at 2:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alex

I have Made something just like this, except it's free, you can find it at modamac.com/?q=dockmod keep in mind it does NOT have every feature that this one has, YET.

November 25 2007 at 1:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply