It's that time of the year again. It's time for the the boys annual trip to London. Read More...

Okay so I covered this topic before (and probably will again), this is just so cool, I've got to cover it... Read More...

Okay so I'm not dead (well not yet anyway), it's just that yesterday I felt like I was. Read More...

Heavy thoughts on an interesting scientific american article. Read More...

Tools for ideas management Read More...

A few quick notes about my blogging. Read More...

Two launchers vie for a place on my dock. Read More...

My thoughts on the new seasons Read More...

Okay I've seen the whole first episode now, so what do I think? Read More...

I've just read this very interesting article at oreilly's mac dev center, so in the same sprit heres what's on my dock!

Taking it from the top we have Safari, Mail, Newsnetwire ,Super get info, Sticky brain, Iterm, calculator, Sherlock, Launch bar, Ipluse and Iblog. I then have a the two locations I can do with out my home directory and applications and finally trash. The only item here that doesn't have a permanent home on the dock is IBlog, which I'm using to write this!
I don't keep many applications on the dock, because I use Launch bar virtually every thing. The only items that get to live on the dock are ones that I use every single computing session Safari, Mail, and Newsnetwire fall in to this category and ones that run all the time (mostly hidden till they are needed), Iterm, calculator, Sherlock, Launch bar and Ipluse are these applications. In the middle we have two oddities, Super get info and Sticky brain. Super get info needs to be where I can drag things to it and I like keep my desk top totally empty of permanent icons so I can use it as a temp directory, so it can't go there. Sticky brain, well I don't know why I keep it there, I do use it almost every session, but it can be lunched from most context menus and has global key short cut that lunches it as well.
The items that run but say hidden are all manually started at boot time and then hidden, why do I do it like this? I don't know I just do. It's not to much of a problem since my mac gets rebooted about once every 3 months or so and they are on the dock so it's click, wait, command-H.
I keep my dock on the right hand side of the screen, with auto hide on. It's kept small but I have a large zoom factor set. It's on the right and hidden, because that's the way I set my PC up at work and I just can't break the habit.
I'm not massively happy with the dock. It dose it's job adequately, but it is confused. The task bar in windows is just used for switching apps, the dock however dose this as well an launching. Also you can only put apps or documents on it. I've tired various replacements, like Dangthing and pathfinder, but at the end of the day Launch bar covers the launching side of things nicely and I can live with or work around the other limitations, so it's staying.

Some thoughts on why mac software is so insanely great! Read More...

The highs and lows of cabling my flat for all of my toys Read More...

The BBC's new, much talked about series. What is it and is it worth watching, my initial impressions. Read More...

Problems, problems and more problems. Read More...

Could it be that the Simpsons is finally beginning to flag after 15 long years....? Read More...

Test editor, oh how I love thee Read More...

My adventures with terminal set up and X11 Read More...

I'm back and bloging again! Read More...