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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According to rumors, the new iTunes 8 presumably coming next week at the Apple “Let Us Rock” event will come with some beautiful new visualizations. Now, new rumors say that the new visualizations will actually be Magnetosphere, a formerly-available plugin by artist Robert Hodgins. After seeing the gorgeous video above, I hope this rumor ends up being true. [Apple@CooOne via Boing Boing Gadgets]
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Kevin Rose is at it again, with a brand new round of rumors about iTunes 8, supposedly premiered next week at the big Apple iPod event. Did I miss the meeting where we all declared him king of iPod rumors? King or not, he’s got what he claims is inside information, including a writeup about something called the “Genius” sidebar, which creates recommended playlists for you, a new grid view (like Delicious Library?), and a new music visualizer.
Additionally, Rose’s tipster mentions HD TV shows in the iTMS, and reiterates the previous rumors of new IPod nanos and Touches. None of these things are a huge surprise — while the Genuis system will certainly be interesting to see (and make fun of) if real, HDTV and the new iPods are old news in Rumorville by now.
Is it OK if we hope for some faster and easier iPhone syncing with a new version of iTunes as well? Whatever is coming next week, we’ll find out all about it then. [Read]
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Shape IM+ All-in-One Mobile Messenger for iPhone
Another instant messenger app for iPhone has been released, joining the ranks of such stalwarts as Pairingo, MobileChat, and AIM for iPhone. Shape IM+ All-in-One Mobile Messenger for iPhone (click opens iTunes App Store) supports AIM/iChat, MSN/Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo!, ICQ, Jabber, Google Talk and MySpaceIM. All public IM systems can be connected through the one client, and all messages come into one shared inbox.
Shape Services GMBH is currently offering the iPhone application for free, while the Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Symbian, and BlackBerry versions retail for $29.99. Get it while it’s free! Thanks to ZaP for the tip! [Read]
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Media Sync: iTunes Syncing on HTC, Nokia, Sony, and Sony Ericsson Devices
Obviously, if you love iTunes but do not own an iPhone, syncing your music can be frustrating. Salling Software has developed a solution to this problem with Media Sync—an app that transfers playlists, music and podcasts to a wide array of Nokia, Sony, and Sony Ericsson phones (also works in a limited fashion with the HTC Touch Diamond). The basic Windows / Mac software is free, but you will have to shell out $22 for the fast sync version. And, naturally, it does not transfer DRM protected tunes. [Salling via Cult of Mac]
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