What's Your Favourite Dock Icon?
I was posting in another thread and this idea came to me, it was mentioned that QuickTime movies when minimised to the dock still play in the dock and I was wondering what people's favourite program was for using the dock in this way.
At varying times i've had these docklings in my dock:
CPU Load
Computer Uptime
and I like how iCal shows the current date as it's icon, Mail will display the number of unread messages and Print Center gives a visual cue to what your printer should be doing
So any other cool one's out there?
At varying times i've had these docklings in my dock:
CPU Load
Computer Uptime
and I like how iCal shows the current date as it's icon, Mail will display the number of unread messages and Print Center gives a visual cue to what your printer should be doing
So any other cool one's out there?
Comments
Originally posted by Dr VanNostran
In PhotoShop the Dock Icon will show the progress bar if you are saving a file. I thought this is very helpful so I can switch to another application and work on something else and still be able to tell when my PhotoShop file is done saving. I can't recall but I am guessing that this is true for most of Adobe's applications.
Yeah Toast has a similar thing when burning disc's.
- OmniWeb refreshes a minimized web page after it loads -- very cool (and something I wish Safari would do \)
- for pure utility, Mail's badge icon is invaluable -- dock badging, when appropriate, is one of my favorite ideas in OS X.
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
Adium will not only flash when you receive an IM, but it will also show a red circle with the person's name when they logs off or a green circle with the name when they log on, and if you receive a new IM from someone you haven't started chatting with yet, it has a blue circle with the person's name on the icon.
That's one of the things I love about Adium! 8)
Photoshop also has a progress bar in its dock icon while it's doing something. I kinda like that, but it always disappears too fast.