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Remove The Mac Dock Delay When Auto-Hide Feature Is Enabled [Tip]

The Dock in Mac provides an easy way to launch your frequently used apps. The space it offers is limited though, and that is why most users reserve it for apps like a text editor or web browser etc. Mac OS X lets you auto-hide Dock when you aren’t using it and access it by [...] (more…)

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Make iOS Dock Disappear Using DockHide For iPhone [Cydia]

One of my favorite Springboard features in iOS is the dock, which makes launching the frequently used apps really convenient. It also sort of completes the main view of Springboard, by underlining all the icons on your iPhone or iPad’s screen. However, if you like symmetry too much, and for some reason think that the [...] (more…)

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Conductor Server: Control Your Mac From An iPhone/iPad [Paid]

A while back, we covered a Mac App, Mobile Mouse Server, which was a feature rich app that allowed you to use your iPhone as a mouse/trackpad replacement with your Mac. The Mac app was free while its iOS client cost $1.99, but the features are definitely worth it. Conductor Server is yet another Mac [...] (more…)

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Dock Designer: Customize Mac Dock Backgrounds & Switch Between 2D/ 3D

We’ve reviewed a lot of Mac customization tools in the past; some that allow you to tweak hidden features in OS X Lion, and others that are meant for customizing a particular feature. Dock Designer is a free Mac app that lets you customize the Dock. It lets you switch to a 2D or 3D [...] (more…)

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Screen Shade: Darken Your Screen While Keeping Dock Bright [Mac]

We recently covered Brightness Slider and Shady, both of which allow you to adjust your screen’s brightness from the menu bar. While Brightness Slider is simple in its functionality, Shady allows you to use keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness. Screen Shade is yet another free Mac app that lets you control the screen’s brightness without [...] (more…)

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iTweaX: Tweak Hidden Mac OS X Features & Run Maintenance Procedures

Onyx and Deeper are two well known tweakers for OS X. Their main advantage: even a novice can tweak their OS without worrying about going critical mass on a brand new Mac book. For those who think that people messing around with the default settings on a Mac must secretly work for NASA, these apps [...] (more…)

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Basics To Know Before Moving From A Windows PC To An Apple Mac

Changing phones, email providers or web browsers is something that takes a lot of conviction and adjusting to; imagine if you felt compelled to change your OS? The move would definitely be a bigger adjustment and if you’re switching from Windows 7 to Mac, since the adjustment would probably be equivalent to sleeping on the opposite [...] (more…)

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SliderDock Now Allows Customizing Rotation & Animation Quality

Back in 2009, we reviewed SliderDock, which is a stylish application launcher for accessing applications and websites by selecting them from a rotating ring (via the mouse wheel). What caught our eye back then was its unique UI, which provides a number of customization options for creating application/website shortcuts. Since our review, SliderDock has been updated [...] (more…)

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Multibar: Multi Feature Dock For Windows With Add-on Support

Multibar is a skinnable Windows dock that helps you organize your applications, files and folders. It provides instant access to gadgets and shortcuts, and enables searching YouTube, Wikipedia and Google without cluttering your desktop.  Multibar remains hidden by default, and only appears on mouse hover, hence it can house several useful shortcuts without consuming a large [...] (more…)

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HTC Dock Mode Turns Your HTC WP7 Device Into A Clock/ Music Player

Microsoft might have struck a deal with Nokia, making it their favorite hardware manufacturer, but HTC hasn’t given up on Windows Phone 7 by any means. The latest proof of HTC’s commitment to the metro platform is the spike in apps released for Mango and the renovated HTC Hub (which has lost its excess graphics and [...] (more…)

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DockView Adds Windows 7 Like Customizable Live Preview To Mac Dock

Want to bring Windows 7 live window previews of minimized applications to Mac OS X system dock? DockView is a highly responsive utility for Mac OS X which provides you with just that.  The application emulates the very same Windows 7 live preview behavior; it shows the preview of minimized window in dock whenever you hover mouse [...] (more…)

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Customize Mac OS X 10.7 Lion System Dock With Docker

Since Mac OS X offers a very limited set of options to change different elements of system dock, including, position, icon size, application window minimize effect, etc, many users rely on 3rd party tools to change dock layout as well as its appearance. If you’ve been hanging around multiple tools to overhaul Mac system dock, [...] (more…)

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Unclutter Mac Dock By Sending Apps To Tab Launcher

Looking for a way to unclutter your ever growing Mac dock? Since Mac dock bar works perfectly with all the applications and other system functions, using a replacement of dock is not a good idea. Rather than going for alternatives, you could use a third party dock bar to balance the distribution of applications and [...] (more…)

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DockBarX Is The Best Customizable Application Dock For Ubuntu Linux

Lately, we have been seeing a lot Ubuntu launcher applications but nothing can match DockBarX when it comes to customizability. It is a feature rich Ubuntu dock application which is somewhat similar to  the previously reviewed Cairo Dock. However, unlike Cairo Dock and Docky, it has more advanced customization options which allow completely transforming its look according to user preferences. One [...] (more…)

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Urly – Pin Web Links In Mac Dock To Stack Them Like Windows 7 JumpList

It becomes quite wearisome to find certain minimized browser windows from an already overcrowded dock. Since each minimized window in dock looks quite similar, one cannot easily identify required window from a long dock overwhelmed with apps and minimized browser windows. Urly offers a simple solution by using Mac native web browser – Safari. It [...] (more…)