[Macworld.com]

You can tell a lot about a person by what's in their Dock. [more]

[kelake]

Quicksilver pretty much eliminates having applications in my dock at all.

[rodneyok]

Here's my dock:
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Yes, I use ALL of those apps! /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[griffman]

And, for the record, that dock of mine was created for the express purpose of talking about round application icons /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif.
My "real" dock has but four things in it, and I use Butler to get to everything else.
-rob.

[shadownight]

Mine is medium-sized: Finder, Safari, NewsFire, Mail, Adium, iChat, iTunes, TextEdit, Pages, DevonThink, Photoshop, Preview, plus a bunch of URLs on the other side. For anything else, Quicksilver helps me out.

[BadDude]

Yeah, I tried hard to like Firefox for about a month, then went back to Safari. Firefox takes so long to launch and does some things that seem wierd to me.

[randombob]

ichat, safari, mail, iweb, ical, address book, itunes, aperture, stickies, Automator, pages, word, excel, OmniOutliner.
In that order. Pretty much ALL running, ALL the time. Yes, I know. But I use them all, all the time, and that's why I use a mac and have as much RAM as I can get my grubby paws on.

[IndyJeff]

Wow - Internet Explorer! What actually renders better in crusty old IE than in Safari or Firefox?

[earthsaver]

I thought I remembered that dock from an article, Rob. That explains why Adium, VersionTracker Pro, and Pando aren't there, right? What four are there?
I keep my Dock pretty minimal. Sure, I access most apps with LaunchBar, however the base set I keep in my Dock permanently are those I also keep open all the time, and I tend to open them with the mouse after I have occasion to restart or logout. They are: Mail, OmniWeb, iTunes, NetNewsWire Lite, Adium, VersionTracker Pro, InCrease, Xtorrent, and MacJournal.

[Philip Michaels]

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What actually renders better in crusty old IE than in Safari or Firefox?

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Well, "better" isn't the most accurate term. Last year, during the baseball playoffs, I had to order some tickets off of Tickets.com, and the order wouldn't go through on Safari; it did on IE. So it's situations like that.
But really, it's gotten to the point where I launch it maybe once every three months, so maybe it's time for it to leave the Dock.
Perhaps I keep it there as a reminder that life could always be worse.

[earthsaver]

Is Apple's VPN menu extra not functional enough to use in place of Internet Connect? Is Camino also not a worthy alternative to Internet Explorer? How come you prefer Calculator.app to Calculator.wdgt?

[griffman]

"What four are there?"
In order, I have Path Finder, Camino, Mail, and iChat.
-rob.

[BdeRWest]

My Dock includes Finder, Silverkeeper (which, I suppose I could probably take out, but I'm still messing with the schedule on the thing. I just got my BUHD), Adium, Firefox, Safari (Firefox because my girlfriend often uses my MBP, and prefers it), Mail, Quark, Calc (a better calculator, IMHO), Word, TextEdit, Photoshop, PhotoBooth (because I find it amusing), iPhoto, iTunes, iCal, Address Books, then the spacer followed by my Applications folder, my girlfriend's document folder, my "checkbook" (an Excel file), and the trash can.
Interestingly, I accidentally deleted dashboard from the dock, but the program still runs. Even after I boot up. I'm running dashboard but can't see it at all. I don't know if this is a glich or there by design, but I like it.
Also, my dock is as small as possible as well, but not because I have too many apps in it. Rather, this way I get more screen real estate. I figure I can tell what it is by its icon even at that size.
Just my $0.02

[Audacitor]

I recently moved to a new computer, and in the chaotic throes of data transferring, I didn't bother to make sure my dock was identical to my new one, so it's a bit smaller than usual:
This is my dock!
Do I use half apps, no. Most of 'em are there just because I just like them!