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- Crackshot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I can only speak for myself but I've found that using quicksilver has eliminated the overcrowded dock issue entirely. I can search through and find as well as quickly launch any application (including many subfeatures like itunes controls and bookmarks) in a few simiple keystrokes. Right now I only have the sys pref and finder in the dock and I honestly feel I could get rid of them without any lack of productivity speed.
- oskite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Cool, but Quicksilver totally owns this.
- twe4ked, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16Digg should impliment a link to diggmirror into the site. it would be so easy for them to do...
PLEASE DIGG PLEASE!!! - Crackshot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12*sighs*
dock clutter problem < spyware, virus, security problems, etc., etc..
honestly, if that's a sollution, you go ahead and keep it -
I don't hate windows by any stretch but that flame bait was stupid on many levels (and hard to resist) - msodrew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Worst pro-windows comment / pop-culture reference / humor, ever.
- Bezza, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9It was free, if you voted in MyDreamApp
- BadassCheese, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16http://duggmirror.com/
- goldenratio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8dugg, but personally i have no need for this since i use quicksilver:
http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Why should we trust you, random internet person #437298764?
- chrismcelligott, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Quicksilver slaughters this little thing, its the killer app.
- devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Because later it might not be?
Why digg him down for acting proactively? - Glenn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Because it's a MT Grid-Server ;)
- lastberserker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Dugg down for careless admission of flaws in Apple's interface. Don't you ever do this again! >:-E
...Ok, kidding, dugg up :) - koonchu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@Glenn:
Just curious. Are you on their 1TB plan? Or the lite GS version? - catfive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That sounds like a challenge...
- angelp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It does. I'm not sure how people say this is better than Quicksilver when Quicksilver is so much more than a launcher. Can you send email from Overflow? Can you add to-do items from Overflow? Can you append text to files in Overflow? No....but you can do that and much much more in Quicksilver.
- Hostile_Monk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.stuntsoftware.com/Overflow/
Direct link, who needs blogs... - nevenmrgan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Exactly. I was going to post,
Sick of your dock been crammed with dozens of applications when you typically only use around 5 at a time? Then remove everything but the 5 from the Dock, duh.
Personally, I love the Dock. I keep my everyday apps in it and launch the rest via Spotlight. - arnar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Me too. Actually, since installing Quicksilver I have the dock hidden - and I rarely bring it up. As for dragging stuff on icons.. I use the "current selection" proxy object in QS and "open with" action.
- uppedbyhiggins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4When did street crazies start getting computers?
- autoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I concur. It should be organized in just one pane and different categories inside it, otherwise it defeats the purpose.
- decades, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, you don't have to put ALL your application shortcuts on the dock. If you don't use them that often, why have them there at all?
- tzon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Adding a Favorites folder to the dock accomplishes the same thing as this app. So simple and part of the OS.
- angelp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'd think that was a legitimate complaint if Quicksilver didn't do those things well (and for free). Even if you only used Quicksilver as a launcher it doesn't get any simpler. Of course, if you just want to see a box with a bunch of pretty icons, then yes, Overflow is perfect.
- jodamiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For keeping less used apps and documents at hand, I just have a folder in the dock with app and doc aliases which I ctrl-click to access. And that's free.
- OutlawSamurai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The problem I've noticed with such categories is that it adds a level of indirection, requiring the user to get into the category and then get to the application (instead of just getting to the application). Granted, if you have a lot going on and you want to keep it all, that level of indirection can speed things up, but I find keeping things simple/slim enough to not even require such additional indirection in the first place as a better route. (Keep everything on the same "shelf," but sorted/organized in a related manner.)
- Glenn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+51TB plan
- iBookG4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This would be useful if you threw folders into different categories and used it for folders instead of apps. In the video tutorial, they show how you can drag and drop items into folders using Overflow's hotkey to bring up Overflow.
Kind of useful...but seems too much like Quicksilver, etc. to be a dock manager. - mentat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dude, you're thinking of the Windows System Tray. Dock holds shortcuts to apps you want in there, and currently running apps. Most start-up apps (like SideNote for me) don't show up there, and a ton of them run as daemons, which wouldn't show up in the Dock anyway.
- whiteguysamurai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I know i going to get dugg down, but it's starting to look like an open start menu in XP.
But i guess that can't be helped, they do similar things. - ru(sic), on 10/12/2007, -0/+1excellent app... vote for dream app and get a free overflow... I love this app... I have all the apps I want sorted in categories... press F1 and it shows.. nice looking too... and the color changing... everything is great.. one suggestion thou: categories should be able to have different sizes...
- rubeus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is one of those information interface design issues, right? What's the best way to do exactly what you wanna do with the least amount of steps involved? 25 or so people have probably spent the better part of their masters and doctoral theses on trying to intelligently approach this. For me, as a general rule, the less clicks and repetitive steps involved, the better. If i can hit a shortcut key and type a 3 letter app code or something then i'm happy with that. If OSX voice recognition was better and able to weed out more background noise, I'd just tell the computer to start apps via a mic, i'd used short names though. Like I'd say, "Open Microsoft Word" well...I'd never say that but, I'd say "SmellyCat open iTunes" (my comp's name is SmellyCat)
- marksy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3yeah i agree - although i only have apps in the dock that i need to drag stuff onto.. such as itunes, preview, safari, textwrangler, qt, vlc and photoshop
@lastberserker - steady on mate - mentat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dock Clutter is far better than system tray clutter.
- JazzAddict, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like to use this in combination with Launchbar (which is like Quicksilver). In the Finder I usually organize my documents by type and kind. With this .app I can set up categories to represent context (home, work, free time) and projects (digitize film, research project on UFOs,,, whatever.) Of course this can be done in the finder via aliases and then set Launchbar (or Quicksilver) to index them separately, but that's not as fun. Beside that, my Mom and designer g-friend will never 'get' Quicksilver. They will totally get this!
- devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -7/+8The program looks handy, though my dock isn't too cluttered (I hate the thing). Kind of a compromise between the dock and the start menu, both of which are incomplete, though the start menu and taskbar is better IMHO.
- antwan911, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sweet app i've cut my dock icons in half and personally in not a big fan of quicksilver
maybe its just me but i don't see much benefit to using it rather then the finder and keyboard shortcuts - rickcarson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1More importantly, does anyone know who duggmirror actually is?
From my point of view it would be a good thing if all the digg articles got routed through duggmirror, in a kind of "recycling is good m'kay" kind of way.
But from diggs point of view, maybe that puts the 'family jewels' into someone else's hands... and you don't know where those hands have been, and you don't know if at some point they are going to start squeezing you to 'cough up' some of that VC green... - snowwrestler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This is dumb. You can just drag any app you don't use out of the Dock, presto, clean Dock.
If you want to launch an app that is not in the Dock, just right click on the Applications shortcut in the Dock and you will get a list of all your apps. You can even group them into sub-folders if you want by arranging them in the Applications folder in the Finder. - Jimtac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just started using Overflow, and find it mildly useful, as I also use Quicksilver. I just wish that there was a windows version, that would be infinitely more useful.
- fraggle35, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2it's just as easy to have a folder in the dock with alias's to all the apps you need, right click and it acts just like the start button in windows.
- starmanjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i love this little app. my dock is always so full of things i use... that its hard to use. then there are those apps i download because i might use them- but are lost and forgotten by the time i would use them.
great job. - zakool21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I won't need to use either of these programs.
All of my most commonly used programs I keep on the dock. Then, I put a applications folder shortcut on the right side of the dock; when I need an application, I right click on the shortcut and a whole list of apps shows up. Easily fixed without third party software. - mrdeluxe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I use both Overflow and Quicksilver and love it!
There were some items that needed to be in the Dock even if I didn't used them much, but have to be there for quick access and I didn't want to start typing in Quicksilver every time. Now I have Overflow (with only one category) with these apps and I still use Quicksilver for getting to folders on my computer without navigating the Finder and getting some files without opening any Finder window at all!
Now thanks to both Quicksilver and Overflow my dock is almost the same size as my trackpad!
I know that I could put a folder on my Dock with alias and it would do the same, but not as nice and shiny like it is with this App... and that counts a lot! - ru(sic), on 10/12/2007, -1/+1but you can navigate up and down through categories while holding the option key.. and then click or select with arrow keys... so the categories rule in my case.. and i have over 10 appz per category, so keeping them all in one is bad...
- unmarked, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3That's the point. Quicksilver tries to do too much. Quicksilver follows the everything but the kitchen sink model. I tried both and jumped on Overflow within about 5 minutes of using it. Clean, simple, easy to use. That's what great Mac software is about.
- badnewsblair, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I was reading the otherwise coherent comments to this thread then I stumbled upon this little gem of pure comedy. Genius.
- richardtallent, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2So.... basically they've reinvented the Windows 3.1 Program Manager, but with a glossy black gradient.
Seriously, though, I installed the trial version last night and it's pretty slick. My dock was crowded, I prefer clicking to launch apps over using Spotlight, and the Finder's Application window is always too many steps away.
You can also right-click on the Overflow icon in the Dock and see the categories and applications in the context menu.
What would be better: icons on the Dock that "slide up" into Dock-like launch bars (but vertical) when clicked. That way, I could create a dock icon for each category (Browsers, Photography, Programming, etc.) and save a click vs. using Overflow. - MacHarborGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Glenn:
The wordpress and webserver may not be down at the moment, but the database backend is most definetly down. Don't diss the Duggmirror.
Connecting from my college's network connection. - Glenn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5Nice try ;-) It's still up
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