Yep it's similar. I think Object Dock offers more options and is generally fancier. It make take more overhead than YzDock does. Yz uses very little system memory.
Last time I used YZDock was several years ago and as I remember it, after having your system up for a while, it started to use more and more memory. I think the highest I ever saw was around 120megs :-(
Last time I used YZDock was several years ago and as I remember it, after having your system up for a while, it started to use more and more memory. I think the highest I ever saw was around 120megs :-(
It definitely uses more than I would like, but I don't remember it getting quite that high on my PC. I think I've seen it at 40 or 50mb before, though. I used to run two YzDocks on different sides of the screen
I use it at work too. Makes my life easier and keeps idiots from using my system since they don't know what it is. In fact, our Xerox rep said the reason their printer didn't work for my system was because I was running a "hacked Mac desktop" instead of Windows
For the dual monitor guys, I'd recommend Rocketdock. It's ultimately the same thing, but gives you the option of which monitor you'd like it to run on, something sorely missed in Y'z Dock for myself.
I can't recommend this product anymore I've been using it for about 9 months now, but it's time to find an alternative.
First, creating and removing dividers is a giant pain.
Second, it doesn't understand that I don't want it to appear when I'm in a full-screen app (like TF2). During class selection, etc, it will burst into the game if I graze the top of my screen. Of course if I accidentally clicked on it, the game minimizes and it takes 5 minutes to get back in.
Third, it blocks Firefox and Thunderbird updates (assuming you have the apps in your dock as I do). Both programs go into an infinite loop of error messages and re-tries as long as YzDock is open. Of course it took me months to realize this connection and nearly punched my monitor off my desk trying to figure out why I had to boot to safe mode to upgrade my apps.
Fourth, it has crashed on me at least a dozen times, including freezing on screen or simply refusing to appear over certain programs.
Overall, nice and useful app with really sloppy programming.
It'd be pretty cool by now if Apple hadn't stopped the guy from developing it.
I don't buy it. You can get it anywhere, including the "official" site, and the only legitimate link people are quoting as a source for that info is now offline. Anywho, there's like 5 apps of this nature floating around; I simply switched to RocketDock to try that out, per the recommendations here.
Yeh, at one point and time I was using rocket dock, but now I just use the built in vista shortcut bar and start menu. the dock on windows seems more like a novelty since the ui wasn't designed to have one.
Yeh, at one point and time I was using rocket dock, but now I just use the built in vista shortcut bar and start menu. the dock on windows seems more like a novelty since the ui wasn't designed to have one.
Personally, I can't stand the Start menu. The first thing I do on XP installs is set it to Classic, small icons, and cull the first level down to
Win Updates
Program
Settings
Search
Run
Shutdown
And then regroup everything into folders like "Browsers" and "Media Players" to make some sense out of the cluster**** that gets dumped in there, remove all non-app shortcuts (an uninstall link in the Start menu? How useful), and reduce the length of the file names ("Adobe Create Suite 3 Dreamweaver" -> "Dreamweaver").
And it still sucks, and I can still open programs from the dock in less than a third of the time.
//edit: When I use someone else's computer and they have that god-awful full-size start menu with every damn app they ever installed under the Programs list that extends into two columns I can't even fathom how they can use it like that on a daily basis.
//edit2: The more I think about this the more pissed I am about using Windows. The dock and application folder in Mac OSX is so much better than this retarded Start menu I can barely stand it. The only thing I like more about the Windows paradigm is the system tray.
I tend to agree, While I dont go through all that I just never use it, got a shutdown and restart button on google sidebar and all my programs on rocketdock
Edit: while I have all my programs onrocket dock I realize a person like Keebs has a ton more programs ( dreamweaver and such ) he is Forced to cut down the Startmenu
I've been using the quicklaunch bar for my most frequent apps, which has always worked well for me, but I decisided to give this RocketDock a shot. So far it's just like the Startbar (the way I had the startbar configured) ecxept for two things:
I like that it can be made transparent.
I don't like that it doesn't list all open apps (it only shows icons for the minimized ones, so if something it full-screen but hidden behind something else, I have to minimize stuff to find it).
Comments
YzDock in action!
ZOMG!
:bigggrin: moves cursor down to dock on OSX:D
It definitely uses more than I would like, but I don't remember it getting quite that high on my PC. I think I've seen it at 40 or 50mb before, though. I used to run two YzDocks on different sides of the screen
I am really happy with it. This is making my day better, fo' serious. It has good customization options, too.
Forget bars, graphics and icons.
Type two letters to launch everything on your system.
I wouldn't even need a start bar if I could float the system tray w/o explorer.exe.
Very nice; and great desktop image BuddyJ!
First, creating and removing dividers is a giant pain.
Second, it doesn't understand that I don't want it to appear when I'm in a full-screen app (like TF2). During class selection, etc, it will burst into the game if I graze the top of my screen. Of course if I accidentally clicked on it, the game minimizes and it takes 5 minutes to get back in.
Third, it blocks Firefox and Thunderbird updates (assuming you have the apps in your dock as I do). Both programs go into an infinite loop of error messages and re-tries as long as YzDock is open. Of course it took me months to realize this connection and nearly punched my monitor off my desk trying to figure out why I had to boot to safe mode to upgrade my apps.
Fourth, it has crashed on me at least a dozen times, including freezing on screen or simply refusing to appear over certain programs.
Overall, nice and useful app with really sloppy programming.
/me straps armor and shield on....
- Win Updates
- Program
- Settings
- Search
- Run
- Shutdown
And then regroup everything into folders like "Browsers" and "Media Players" to make some sense out of the cluster**** that gets dumped in there, remove all non-app shortcuts (an uninstall link in the Start menu? How useful), and reduce the length of the file names ("Adobe Create Suite 3 Dreamweaver" -> "Dreamweaver").And it still sucks, and I can still open programs from the dock in less than a third of the time.
//edit: When I use someone else's computer and they have that god-awful full-size start menu with every damn app they ever installed under the Programs list that extends into two columns I can't even fathom how they can use it like that on a daily basis.
//edit2: The more I think about this the more pissed I am about using Windows. The dock and application folder in Mac OSX is so much better than this retarded Start menu I can barely stand it. The only thing I like more about the Windows paradigm is the system tray.
Edit: while I have all my programs onrocket dock I realize a person like Keebs has a ton more programs ( dreamweaver and such ) he is Forced to cut down the Startmenu
Heh, given that we don't count things in the System Tray (Steam/TF2).
I like that it can be made transparent.
I don't like that it doesn't list all open apps (it only shows icons for the minimized ones, so if something it full-screen but hidden behind something else, I have to minimize stuff to find it).
That's just my impression after one day.