DockDisks=Cool

[Thundarr]

I saw this interesting DockDisks utility over in a MacNN thread (http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=46&t=004947). I downloaded it and tried it out. Works very nicely. Now I have no more volumes on my desktop. Only things on my desktop are stiff that I have downloaded and need to be taken care of in the immediate future. One caveat, every time a new volume is mounted, the Dock restarts, so you lose any minimized windows. Despite that, I found this an excellent utility.

[Phil St. Romain]

Thanks, thundarr! I'll give it a try.

This one sounds like it's both a tweaking utility as well as a software piece deserving of review, so I'll move it to Tweaks and leave an pointer here.

Same for Visage.

(old systematists never die; they just become annoying)

[Thundarr]

I wasn't sure where they would go, as both were software reviews and hints to tweak the system. Of course, they might do better over here 'cause lots of people are interested in tweaks. Good thing you have the moderator job (among other excellent reasons). Anyway, I hope these posts will help some people interested in some good stuff. :)

[Phil St. Romain]

One good thing about this forum software, thundarr, is that you can transfer a thread and leave it listed in the other forum; clicking on it there brings you to the one it was moved to.

So the software/tweaks has two listings instead of just one: even better! :)

[The Tweaker]

Originally posted by Thundarr
I saw this interesting DockDisks utility over in a MacNN thread (http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=46&t=004947). I downloaded it and tried it out. Works very nicely. Now I have no more volumes on my desktop.Works for me, and it's still in beta. Tidy desktop, tidy mind, or is it the other way round? :D

One question, is there a way I can get rid of the background in the dock, or make it transparent maybe?

- T.T.

[Phil St. Romain]

Tweaker, you can use Transparent Dock (http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=11295&db=mac). Works great, and it's free.

[didde]

I like DOckDisks.. It really works nice.

[The Tweaker]

Originally posted by Phil St. Romain
Tweaker, you can use Transparent Dock (http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=11295&db=mac). Works great, and it's free. Thanks, Phil. Very nice that. Very nice indeed.

Also, the search engine here works. I actually manged to find a thread relating to it.

BTW "Venus Unveiled" today http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Thanks again, and "Happy Easter" to all you little tweakers out there :D

- T.T.

[CharlesS]

Good to know that people over at MacOSXHints like it!

[The Tweaker]

Originally posted by CharlesS
Good to know that people over at MacOSXHints like it! Thanks for the cheque BTW, CharlesS. It enabled me to go away for the Easter weekend :D

- T.T.

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by The Tweaker
Thanks for the cheque BTW, CharlesS. It enabled me to go away for the Easter weekend :D

- T.T.

What the hell is this supposed to mean? :confused:

[The Tweaker]

Originally posted by CharlesS


What the hell is this supposed to mean? :confused: Are you not the author? I jokingly suggested that you had sent me a cheque so that I would say something nice about TransparentDock. Sorry.

- T.T.

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by The Tweaker
Are you not the author? I jokingly suggested that you had sent me a cheque so that I would say something nice about TransparentDock. Sorry.

- T.T.

Okay, that makes sense. Sorry, that message just confused the heck out of me... I wrote DockDisks, which was the topic of this thread and is what I was replying to, not TransparentDock, and I was trying to figure out why I would have written you a check when I was fairly certain I hadn't...

Add to that the fact that it was fairly early in the morning and I had just gotten up when I wrote that, and...

[Thundarr]

I don't know if you get much in the way of feedback, but DockDisks is exactly what I have been wishing for. Thanks again for making this excellent utility. I am appreciating it more and more with every day I use it!

[The Tweaker]

Originally posted by Thundarr I don't know if you get much in the way of feedback... Have a look here http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=37&t=002755 someone gives you a well deserved plug there ;)

- T.T.

[CharlesS]

Originally posted by The Tweaker
Have a look here http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=37&t=002755 someone gives you a well deserved plug there ;)

- T.T.

Thanks!

[dschep]

Great little utility the only thing i don't like is that the dock has to relaunch for new drives to show in dock or leave the dock.

Daniel :)

[CharlesS]

Just released a new version of DockDisks. Check out this thread for details:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2419

[The Tweaker]

Originally posted by CharlesS
Just released a new version of DockDisks.Thanks for keeping us here informed.

- T.T.