Dock-age

This is a cool meme from Neil. Mac evangelist, Dave, participated also. Looks cool enough, so here’s what on my PowerBook Dock.

Dock, Left

• Finder - Haven’t found a way to remove this as Neil points out, but I like it.
• DragThing - Got this based on Dave’s recommendation. It organizes your apps and files for easy access.
• Dashboard - Apple’s widget thing. Pretty cool and convenient, but sometimes I forget it’s there. Thus, I don’t use it that much.
• Automator - Apple’s script/process thing. I know I didn’t expain it very well (check out the Apple.com for a better explanation). I use it to change the “.JPG” extension in iView Media Pro to “,jpg” for all my photo files in fell swoop.
• Firefox - The best browser in the world.
  [I don't have Apple's Safari on the dock, simply because the quicktags function in WordPress does not work properly with Safari.]
• Proteus - A multi-protocol chat client. I disagree with Neil about Adium. I hate the Adium interface and Jabber integration. I think Proteus is much easier to use and intgrates the multiple chat clients much easier. I wish Proteus could integrate video chat.
• Entourage - The mac version of Microsoft Office’s Outlook. It has email, calendar, to do list, and address book functions.
• NetNewsWire Lite - An RSS aggregator I use to read blogs with RSS feeds. It’s pretty cool and free.
• Ecto - Blogging software. I’m trying this out ocassionally based on Dave’s recommendation. I really like it, but my tags plugin with WordPress is not working with it. The author of that plugin is working on a workaround. So when she finally fixes it, I will use Ecto more regularly.
• BBEdit - Powerful text editor I use for editing my WordPress templates and stylesheets.
• Transmit - FTP software
• Word
• Excel
• PowerPoint
• Quicken - Financial management software. I use this to manage my finances, balance my checkbook, and reconcile my bank statements.

Dock, Right

• Circus Ponies Notebook - Good notetaking tool. But now that I’m taking classes online, I don’t really use this that much.
• Pages - Desktop publishing tool, part of the iWork suite. I’m using it for the second time to make a newsletter.
• Keynote - Apple’s presentation software. Haven’t really used it. I guess I’m too used to PowerPoint.
• iView Media Pro - A photo cataloging software. Professional alternative to iPhoto. This is awesome if you’re into photography.
• PictureSync - Great photo upload tool. I use it to upload to Flickr.
• 1001 - Desktop photo upload tool that integrates with Flickr and Ecto. I probably won’t keep this on the dock given my current Ecto incompatibility.
• Photoshop Elements - Photo/graphics editing software by Adobe, the “lite” version of Adobe Photoshop.
• iMovie - Very cool digital video editing tool This is what I used to make all my Greece moveis.
• iDVD - Very cool DVD processing software. This is what I used to produce all my Greece DVDs.
• iTunes - MP3/audio file player by Apple. Integrates with iPod.
• System Preferences - Similar to Windows Control Panel.
• Missing Sync - Integrates my Palm-based Treo 650 with my laptop via Bluetooth. I sync all my Palm data in Entourage and Treo 650 with this nice piece of software.
• Applications - Link to apps folder.
• Home - Link to Home folder.
• Mac OSX - Link to OSX web site.
• Trash

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