How much CAN the DOCK do?
We have seen that the dock can be on all sides of the screen, the three minimization effects,(to get these you need tinkertool or UNIX ability) the regular bounce, the annoying attention bounce, and now (with the help of a MacHack) somersault!
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What else can the dock do to icons? What other features are there? Can is make the icons spin, make it looks like it is building momentum and then drop it back down?
What else is there? Thankee <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
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What else can the dock do to icons? What other features are there? Can is make the icons spin, make it looks like it is building momentum and then drop it back down?
What else is there? Thankee <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
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<strong> and now (with the help of a MacHack) somersault!
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what ? <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
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The somersault thing is a hack which adds a little bit of pizzazz to dock icons that jump up when they need your attention. When the icon leaps up, it performs a somersault, then comes back down. I saw an animation of it somewhere, but damned if I can find the link or the page again (Google was of no help there).
Also, it has virtual desktops built-in
Images can be seen here:
<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/macanoid/Resources/072.jpeg" target="_blank">image browser in dock</a>
<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/macanoid/Resources/082.jpeg" target="_blank">dock with built-in pop up folders</a>
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Take the MSN Messenger dude and the Finder or something... after a while, when you aint doing nothing, they struggle themselves out of the dock and start fighting till one survives.
Macanoid, that workstrip is awesome. Could be nicer theme, but the functionality looks exactly what the dock should be.
<strong>How can i make my dock icons preform this somersault?! Is it a simple install or does it require complex terminal hacking?</strong><hr></blockquote>
As I remember, it was a small program that you could install from a CD-ROM (MacHack 2002 CD-ROM?). Aside from that, I don't know anything else about it.
<strong>Macanoid, that workstrip is awesome. Could be nicer theme, but the functionality looks exactly what the dock should be.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well, it's available here: <a href="http://www.softchaos.com/" target="_blank">http://www.softchaos.com/</a> I bought it, and haven't looked back since. Totally wonderfull app!!!