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href=\"http:\/\/www.macdevcenter.com\/pub\/a\/mac\/2003\/09\/30\/dock.html\" title=\"O'Reilly Network: What's in your dock?\">this O&#8217;Reilly article<\/a>, propagated by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/03\/10\/031001your_dock_if.html\" title=\"kottke.org: Your Dock, if you please\">Jason Kottke<\/a>, and since picked up by many others, looking at how different people keep their dock arranged. Bottom, left, or right? Hidden or visible? Magnifying or not? And so on.<\/p>\n<p>So, not being one to let a silly pointless meme pass by, I give you my current dock! I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re all thrilled. It&#8217;s actually fairly boring at the moment, but that&#8217;s partly because I don&#8217;t use the dock as a launcher at all, instead preferring to use it only to show currently running applications. As I&#8217;ve had this machine for all of five days now, and there were a few restarts as I got things installed and configured, my list of running applications hasn&#8217;t grown terribly much yet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten into the habit of keeping my dock on the right hand side of the screen. I&#8217;m right handed, so it&#8217;s a very natural movement for me to swing over that way to switch from app to app when I&#8217;m mousing around (which is actually a little odd, as on my Windows box at work, I keep the taskbar anchored to the left hand side of the screen &#8212; one of them is backwards). Keeping it on the bottom never really worked for me, as it takes up screen real estate that I&#8217;d rather have useable for windows &#8212; I&#8217;m far more likely to want as much vertical space as possible for reading pages than horizontal space.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got running right now, top to bottom: The Mac OS X finder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocoatech.com\/pathfinder3\/index.php\" title=\"Pathfinder\">Pathfinder<\/a> (a finder replacement), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/jaguar\/mail.html\" title=\"Apple - Mac OS X - Feature - Mail\">Mail<\/a> (email), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iconfactory.com\/ip_home.asp\" title=\"iPulse\">iPulse<\/a> (system monitoring), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\" title=\"Apple - iTunes\">iTunes<\/a> (music), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ichat\/\" title=\"Apple - iChat AV\">iChat AV<\/a> (.mac\/AIM IMing), System Preferences (not usually open, but I&#8217;m still tweaking things), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemkesoft.de\/en\/graphcon.htm\" title=\"Lemke Software - GraphicConverter\">GraphicConverter<\/a> (excellent graphic manipulation program), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/\" title=\"Apple - Safari\">Safari<\/a> (web browsing), <a href=\"http:\/\/ranchero.com\/netnewswire\/\" title=\"NetNewsWire\">NetNewsWire<\/a> (news aggregator), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/quicktime\/\" title=\"Apple - QuickTime\">QuickTime Player<\/a> (had to watch the Return of the King trailer a couple times last night), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ical\/\" title=\"Apple - iCal\">iCal<\/a> (calendar\/secheduling).<\/p>\n<p>Exciting, huh? ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, not being one to let a silly pointless meme pass by, I give you my current dock! 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