What does your Dock say about you?
March 06, 2005In September last year, Jim and also Savas asked for your "Start Menu" under Windows. As Jim already mentioned in his post it can be sometimes quite funny and interesting when somebody is going to prepare his laptop for a presentation and you can get a glimpse of his/her start menu.
Everybody has his/her own ideas and quirks what programs should be in the start menu and hence quickly to be accessed. This also shows where somebody sets his/her preferences and what he/she fancies.
On Mac OS X, however, there is no start menu like under Windows. There it is called "Dock" which is a nice menu usually at the bottom of your desktop. It's a kind of integrated start menu with a task bar. And with Mac OS X you also get some nice visual effects such as magnification.
With this post I would like to ask all apple users reading this post to tell us a bit about your dock! What programs are important for you?
I've put a screenshot of my one below. I don't think it is necessary to talk a lot about since the great icons are self-explanatory, aren't they? And yes, there is already Keynote and Pages (called iWork if you buy them bundled), which I just bought this afternoon. I haven't worked a lot with it yet, but I am already impressed by the very fine selection of templates both offer you. Also the import of Microsoft Work and PowerPoint files works fine including many transitions and animations set up in my PP slides. I don't know if Keynote supports all kind of PowerPoint's eccentric animations but I think that is not so important. What counts is that you can import your PP slides and the layout, fonts, graphics and also the (at least) basic transitions and animations remain as you know them from PowerPoint.
Ok guys and girls, its your turn now! Let us see your Dock!
46halbe Says:
March 7, 2005 10:54 AM
This is my
Dock: http://erdgeist.org/archive/46halbe/dock.jpg