ditching the Dock

Bruce Tognazzini recommends five key pieces of shareware in the AskTog column "Make Your Mac a Monster Machine."

If you choose to adopt them, you will have a desktop that can outperform not only a Dock-dependent Mac system, but also Windows XP and a fully decked-out System 9.0 computer.

Tog hates the Dock in Apple OS X, so these tools help you cope without it, so you can make it small and hidden. I've tried it for a week, and I don't agree with Tog.

I've gotten used to the Dock, and removing it makes me slower.

Some of the software was very good, however.

I should tell you that I always keep the dock at the left edge so it does not interfere with any of the scrollbars. I make it fairly big and full of icons, so it (and the trash with it) stays in place instead of changing shape and moving things around when I open and close programs. It's always visible so it is very fast to use, and it will stay that way.

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