Thought I’d talk for a change about software that I use, and that I wouldn’t part with. RocketDock is something that most Mac users have had for quite a while now, it’s that shiny dock with big glossy icons usually situated at the bottom center of the screen. RocketDock is a windows application which acts and does the same as the Apple Mac OS X.
It even comes with a “Minimize to dock” option, which basically creates a small thumbnail of the application that you just minimised and puts it on the dock, quite nifty and keeps the taskbar clutter free.
The above screenshot shows how I have my RocketDock setup at home. The really cool thing about is that there are lots of styles/skins to chose from, and if you don’t like any of them it’s quite easy to make your own as well. In addition to the styling there are also a lot of behaviour settings and customisation.
It’s a great way to keep you desktop clean, without having to resort to using the start menu which in most cases is very slow, clumsy and you can’t find what you need most of the time either. Plus, RocketDock coupled with some shiny dock icons looks gorgeous as well.
2 replies to “RocketDock”
Dha-1 said on April 11th, 2007 at 23:07
RocketDock is a nice app, but I personally use ObjectDock. It does consume a bit of ram as compared to RocketDock but it offers a little bit more features. Although it depends entirely upon the person, if he/she wishes to use more features or just keep it nice and simple.
crazybjörn said on April 12th, 2007 at 09:49
I wouldn’t really say that it has more features, especially considering that RocketDock gets updated quite often and each time new features are added.
The only exception might be the Plus version of ObjectDock, but that one isn’t free.