Interesting: SuperDocker
SuperDocker is a Mac OS X app that customizes your Leopard dock using “themes.” It also tweaks miscellaneous settings for the Finder, Dashboard, and Safari progress bar.
The Good
- Once you have SuperDocker installed on your Mac, installation of a new dock theme is easy — just download a theme from the SuperDocker website (file extension .dockSD3) and double click it to install. Reverting back to the default Leopard theme is also easy: click on “Dock” in the SuperDocker sidebar and click the “Restore” button under Appearance.
The Bad
- After a few minutes of browsing the selections, I only found a few I thought were worth installing. Hopefully the selection will improve over time. I’d also like to see more options for the “2D” dock.
- I’m a bit confused as to why these other settings are included in this program. Customization of the Safari progress bar is one of those “problems” I never knew I had, and the Finder and Dashboard settings seem like the kitchen sink thrown in.
Conclusion
If you’re bored with your glossy, 3D dock appearance, SuperDocker will let you change it. But I’d advise checking out the available themes to see if like any of them, first.
I bought CandyBar a while back, and have been very satisfied with it. The Iconfactory has been cranking out excellent dock themes for a while now.
As for the other preferences, I’d recommend Secrets.
Thanks, I should check out CandyBar. Even just at a cursory glance, the
designs are way better than SuperDocker’s.
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Wow. For me, the absolute best part of this is being able to force Safari to always open in tabs!! I’ve wanted this functionality forever. There were some websites (Gmail in particular) that would always open links in a new window, even though I would hold Command as I clicked the link to say I wanted it in a new tab. Now, with SuperDocker, I don’t have to worry about it. All links are opening in tabs. Yay, SuperDocker!!