August 20, 2008 

what’s in your dock or sidebar?

So, my question for today is: What applications do you keep on your dock/sidebar? Which essential applications do you use daily?

The following is part of my dock:

  • Finder
  • Mail (although I still prefer the Google Mail look and feel)
  • DashBoard
  • Firefox (has all my essential development plugins)
  • Safari (faster browsing)
  • iTunes
  • MAMP (very easy and painless php+mysql+apache on a Mac)
  • Textmate (my favourite editor)
  • Pixelmator (I learned to forget about Photoshop because I only use 10% of it)
  • GoPlan (using Fluid)
  • Transmit (ftp made easy)
  • Stickies (lot’s of them)
  • Calendar
  • Terminal (never knew I would say this but I can’t live without it now)
  • Control Panel
  • and the usual folders and trash bin.

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12 Responses to “what’s in your dock or sidebar?”

  1. Alcides August 20, 2008 at 1:10 pm #

    Finder, Terminal, AdiumX, Safari, Mail.app, Calendar, iTunes, Flickr Uploadr, Fireworks (I<3FW!), Textmate and transmission. But I have a stack with Dev Apps :)

    (btw, openid in your blog comments would be nice :)

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  2. José Carlos August 20, 2008 at 1:39 pm #

    In my dock:

    Mail
    Safari
    Minefield (Intel Mac optimized Firefox)
    Textmate
    Transmit
    CSSEdit
    Evernote
    Vienna
    Versions
    Terminal
    MAMP
    iTunes
    Adium
    the usual folders and trash bin

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  3. Paulo A. Silva August 20, 2008 at 2:57 pm #

    Finder
    Dashboard
    Safari
    Firefox
    Adium
    Mail
    ZDE (Zend Development Environment)
    Aptana
    XCode
    iTunes
    Stickies
    Terminal
    System Preferences
    Trash

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  4. friend August 20, 2008 at 4:26 pm #

    why do you keep “System Preferences.app” (which you misspelled “Control Panel”) in the dock?!
    You can access it easily through the apple menu!

    oh, and quicksilver rocks… give it a try… it would trim down your dock! (or you can allways use apple+space to lunch spotlight and execute the apps easily)

    sticked to my dock there are only apps that i don’t use much and don’t remember their names :P

    cheers!

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  5. psousa August 20, 2008 at 8:19 pm #

    nice tips, thanks!

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  6. Ricardo August 20, 2008 at 9:47 pm #

    Firefox
    Safari
    iCal
    NetNewsWire
    Adium
    Skype
    Cyberduck
    TextMate
    Colloquy
    Terminal
    JungleDisk

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  7. João Ramos August 22, 2008 at 10:48 am #

    Im addicted Quicksilver user but i have some apps in the dock.

    Google Docs ( shortcut )
    Task Time
    Safari
    TextMate
    Last.fm
    firefox (because its open :) )

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  8. Levi Figueira August 27, 2008 at 1:25 am #

    WoW.. I need to clean my dock:

    Finder
    Firefox
    Safari
    Mail.app
    NNW
    Calendar
    Things.app
    Cha-Ching
    Adium
    Linkinus (irc client)
    iChat
    MSN Messenger (for a little while longer)
    Skype
    iTunes
    Yep! (PDF management… will include my dev books in Coda now that it reached 1.5 and allows custom books though)
    iPhoto
    Transmit
    Transmission
    Textmate
    Coda
    CSSEdit
    Fireworks (@alcides, I <3 FW too ;) )
    Photoshop (usually not here but need it right now… designing slides for including on Premiere)
    Illustrator
    MyEclipse
    FontExplorer X (free+awesome ;) )
    Terminal
    Disk Utility
    System Preferences (yes I know I have the shortcut :p)
    VMware Fusion 2.0

    and…

    Football Manager Live launcher ;) hehehe

    Then 3 stacks:
    Documents
    Desktop
    Downloads

    PS: What icon theme is that for your stacks/folders?? :o

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  9. psousa August 27, 2008 at 9:20 am #

    @levi yes, you have lots of stuff there.

    I forgot where I downloaded those icons. :\

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  10. Levi Figueira August 27, 2008 at 8:56 pm #

    No worries… Pra já arranjei uns porreiros (via IconFactory + CandyBar – que não sei se é assim q tás a fazer com os teus)…

    Mas se descobrires, manda-me uma mail sff, alright? ;)

    Later

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  11. Opatrao September 8, 2008 at 10:34 am #

    Don’s forget to add Desktop Keeley people, it’s The Sun News Feed ;)

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  12. ana September 30, 2008 at 2:49 pm #

    can’t believe people still use the dock… quicksilver ftw! :)

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