Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Freeware, Leopard
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 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.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Shahrum said 3:07PM on 9-05-2008
I use the free app and docks here: http://www.leoparddocks.com/index.php. Check out "true dock" -- best one IMO :)
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Joel said 3:49PM on 9-05-2008
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joelisfar/2831494786/
It actually works!
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Eric M. said 5:10PM on 9-05-2008
With SuperDocker?
coffeemaster77 said 5:12PM on 9-05-2008
What? Google Chrome on OS X??
Jon Niola said 4:03PM on 9-05-2008
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.
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anonymous said 4:24PM on 9-05-2008
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.
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Peter Zich said 4:30PM on 9-05-2008
Interesting selection of features for a Leopard Dock customizer...
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Chuck said 4:31PM on 9-05-2008
I'd just like Cleardock to work again....
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Josh said 5:59PM on 9-05-2008
Go to http://macthemes2.net and search the forums for "Mirage". :)
qwert said 8:00AM on 9-06-2008
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.
redfood said 4:56PM on 9-05-2008
What I want is to have the dock show up on both monitors (in a 2 monitor setup of course)
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Chuck said 5:56PM on 9-05-2008
Menubar too!
Ashley Easter said 7:54PM on 9-05-2008
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!
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Brian said 11:13PM on 9-05-2008
Yeah, it's Terminal script in Cocoa, but sometimes you just don't want to bash out code.
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Simon Arch said 12:26AM on 9-06-2008
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)
Voilà. 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.
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michael cysouw said 3:05PM on 9-06-2008
secrets (though leopard only)
http://secrets.blacktree.com/
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