On Monday, January 2, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jan 1, 2006, at 3:47 PM, david_elmo wrote:
no drop down of what programs are open, you look in this dinky over
cute Disney dock (at least in Windows in this feature they just have
a small neat line and no fanfare).
Ok, turn off the Dock magnification and size it down to remove most of
the disneyishness. You can also set it to auto-hide, which I do, gets
it out of the way all the time. (I know of only one person who
actually like and uses the dock magnification feature)
Make that 2 Bruce.
I have OS 9 ified my dock, and it is even more useful that tearing off
the running applications menu from 9.
I have it set to:
Size: just a notch above small
Location: Right
Magnification at about 40%
This takes up about 3/8" strip on the far right side of the screen. Why
did Apple standardize on the dock on the bottom? Most people have
landscape monitors, not portrait, and have more screen real estate left
and right as opposed to top and bottom.
This allows me to see and have one click access to:
Every running app and frequently used apps (I do shut down every night
mostly so Mail quits- I get all my pop accounts at both home and work)
A few document templates that I need frequent access to.
My Documents, a Template and Stationary Folder and my Applications
folder also reside in the Dock. With one (right) click, I have access
to all the contents of these folders in a very convenient popout
submenu.
Still chugging along at work with my hopped up beige MT running 10.2.8.
Which, according to prices in the March 1998 MacWorld the closest
buildable system to my current configuration would run about $9,600.00.
And that doesn't consider the processor upgrade. Which I guess means
that by 2012 I can get that quad G5 2.5GHz for under $100.00. The only
question is whether OS XIII will support the G5s, and if not will we be
whining about that?
Len
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