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Trick out your dock with Dock Library



With the advent of Mac OS X Leopard, people seem to be taking the initiative to "hack" their dock and change the image that defines what it looks like. If you don't want to pay money for an application like Panic's CandyBar, then look no further than Dock Library. For freeware, Dock Library has a very simple, clean interface, it's almost Apple-like in it's appearance. Dock Library allows you to import dock styles downloaded from sites like LeopardDocks. Just click a dock style, click set dock, type your password, and your old dock will be replaced with the new one.

Dock Library is available from the developer's website as a free download (donations are accepted).

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With the advent of Mac OS X Leopard, people seem to be taking the initiative to "hack" their dock and change the image that defines what...
 

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Dano

Update: I restarted my Mac, and now it works. There are a couple of docks that still won't work (corrupt perhaps?) but most of them do.

February 28 2008 at 11:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Aaron

I prefer this:

$ defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES

February 28 2008 at 11:51 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dano

Not working for me either. Chose dock theme, hit apply, entered password - nada. Disappointing...

February 28 2008 at 11:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dub

I like DockSwitcher.
http://www.dockulicious.com/download

February 28 2008 at 11:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
FoundInTheFlood

the files from the LeopardDocks page seem to be damaged, i downloaded 3 ZIP files, none of them were unzippable ... anyone else having this problem? Or is that a safari download Problem (like with the ipod touch firmware) that adds the .zip and its not really a zip?)

February 28 2008 at 10:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sharky

Thanks for not calling this "Pimp your Dock". The "Pimp" your anything give me a headache.

February 28 2008 at 10:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
NotAwesome

Nice!

Will haXX0r-ing the dock like this lead to issues when there are system updates, though? Always wanted to customize my system more, but keep hearing about problems once an OS X point update comes along. Not worth it to me to be switching icons and such back and forth all the time.

February 28 2008 at 9:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
david place

perhaps this could be mentioned again . . . after it is working . . . (keeps relauncning itself) . . .

February 28 2008 at 9:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Caltonian

"It's" = "It is".
"Its" = "belonging to it".

Me, a pedant?

February 28 2008 at 7:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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andrew harrison

you, me, gruber too

http://daringfireball.net/2007/08/itso

February 28 2008 at 8:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Max

Not working at all for me..
Imported "nanoswirls" (from leoparddocks.net) successfully but when you click sets, it reloads the dock without applying the theme.

February 28 2008 at 7:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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