Customize your Leopard Dock and more with SuperDocker

Ross McKillip over at Simple Help pointed out a great little Dock utility a while back called SuperDocker.

If you want a basic 2D Dock again, or think it would be cool to make the Dock look like a wooden shelf, then SuperDocker may be for you. This donation-ware utility not only gives you control over the look of the Dock, but also provides an easy-to-use portal for customizing other features of Leopard. SuperDocker can:

Lock the Dock
Make your Dock 2D
Enable Dashboard widgets on the desktop
Add the Development menu in Safari, including the Web Inspector
Customize the Safari progress bar
Disable the shadows on screenshots
Disable the crash panel when an application crashes
...and a lot more

A number of Dock backgrounds and other items have been uploaded to the SuperDocker site; to install them on your Mac, you just drag and drop 'em on the appropriate spot in SuperDocker.

A similar app that is popular with a lot of Mac users is OnyX, which adds maintenance and optimization utilities to the mix. Do you customize your Dock or Finder? If so, what utility do you use? Let us know in the comments.

[via CreativeBits]

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Source: http://creativebits.org/how_customize_your_os_x_leopard_dock

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Simon Arch

I have a 2D dock, and here's how I get it:

Open Terminal, then type:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
(enter)
killall Dock
(enter)

VoilÃ . If I'm ever the victim of severe head trauma and forget that I hate the "3D" dock, all I have to do to get it back is substitute NO for YES in that first command, then killall Dock.

If you don't like Terminal then these other apps like OnyX are awesome tools. Actually, they're great to have on hand for other reasons.

@redfood & Chuck - the only way to do that is to turn on display mirroring. But then you'd lose the advantage of having a dual-display configuration. Actually, I take that back. You CAN have multiple docks if you use DockFun - http://www.donelleschi.com/dockfun/

Still no way to have more than one menubar though.

September 06 2008 at 12:26 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brian

Yeah, it's Terminal script in Cocoa, but sometimes you just don't want to bash out code.

September 05 2008 at 11:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ashley Easter

I liked the OLD SuperDocker - before the latest version (3?). But luckily I used Time Machine to grab back the old version, and now have the best of both worlds!

September 05 2008 at 7:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ChuckB

I'd just like Cleardock to work again....

September 05 2008 at 4:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Josh

Go to http://macthemes2.net and search the forums for "Mirage". :)

September 05 2008 at 5:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

qwert

Cleardock doesn't work?
Another reason for not going leopard for me.
I can't stand anything else than a clear dock, with triangles. an the triangles have to be red, because this color stands up the best from my desktop backgrounds.

September 06 2008 at 8:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pete Zich

Interesting selection of features for a Leopard Dock customizer...

September 05 2008 at 4:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

anonymous

I use both. Each has a bunch of features that the other one doesn't, and while they don't work "seamlessly", as Steve Jobs would say, they definitely can coezist.

September 05 2008 at 4:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jon Niola

My personal preference is the less customizations the better. This way when there is a patch I don't have to spend an hour trying to figure out why something does not work right.

September 05 2008 at 4:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joel

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelisfar/2831494786/

It actually works!

September 05 2008 at 3:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Eric M.

With SuperDocker?

September 05 2008 at 5:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eric M.

What? Google Chrome on OS X??

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