January 20, 2004

AskTog discusses several Mac OS X third-party apps that help make OS X all he thinks it should be— which is, apparently, Mac OS 9. DragThing, naturally, is his favorite.

AskTog hates the dock, and I can't help but sympathize. My first week as a Mac owner, I had already found myself opening the Applications folder to launch apps. (Again, DragThing is an excellent solution.)

AskTog seems to like Panther.

comments...

mike.whybark.com, January 20, 2004 9:59 AM:

DT developer James Thomson (+/- p) intimated to me as OSX launched (without violating NDA, believe me) that he may have had input on the Dock in some capacity.



I've come to wish I could merge the Dock with DT, or invoke multiple instances of the dock. I wonder if a reskinning if DT as the Dock (TD?) might scratch my itch?

Jerry Kindall, January 20, 2004 11:03 AM:

LaunchBar is how I launch most programs these days. I could probably do without DragThing and FruitMenu entirely, and someday soon I will probably try doing that. Well, maybe I'll keep FruitMenu -- there are some times when you just want to launch a program with the mouse.

Dan Sanderson, January 20, 2004 11:34 AM:

Wow. LaunchBar is awesome.