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#51 2005-11-04 7:38 pm
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
MysticCow wrote:
a processor upgrade can breathe new life into it. And it's less expensive than a new system.
I think I'm going shopping for processor. Any suggestions where to buy one? And what model do I need to look for? And, how much should I pay?
Thanks for the advice. 
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#52 2005-11-04 7:40 pm
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
I'd try Other World Computing at http://www.macsales.com/
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#53 2005-11-04 7:49 pm
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
I went to the site and read the specs on a model that is priced at $195. It claims to add a significant improvement in speed and ups the mhz to 1.5G. I think this is what I need. Thanks again.
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#54 2005-11-04 9:15 pm
Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
I consider the dock nothing more than a glorified application switcher. I still can't believe it took so long for FruitMenu to get mentioned in this thread; that is the number one utility I couldn't live without. I can't recommend it enough, it's incredible. 
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#55 2005-11-04 10:17 pm
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
Thrica, what I don't understand is why use Fruit Menu to do something you can tweak the OS to do for free via System Prefs? What else am I missing by not using FruitMenu?
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#56 2005-11-04 11:04 pm
Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
I use it to make my Apple Menu act like it did back in OS 9, having all my applications launchable through it. What were you thinking it did?
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#57 2005-11-05 12:12 am
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
I <3 Thrica's avatar. That is all i have left for this thread,
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#58 2005-11-05 2:07 am
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
It was mentioned to put apps in the menu folder. I did this in classic days. where is it in X.?
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#59 2005-11-05 8:15 am
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
MysticCow wrote:
Thrica, what I don't understand is why use Fruit Menu to do something you can tweak the OS to do for free via System Prefs? What else am I missing by not using FruitMenu?
What is FruitMenu?
FruitMenu is a haxie that gives you the ability to customize the Apple Menu and contextual menus. Using a visual editor you can edit the contents of the menus to suit your needs and taste. FruitMenu will also display the contents of the FruitMenu Items folder inside of your Library folder, launch applications and shell scripts from the Apple Menu and contextual menus, to allow easy file navigation and launching. To make the haxie completely flexible and customizable, you can assign hotkeys to particular menu items. Last but not least, it is priced at only US $10 with lifetime free updates!
my time is worth alot more than 10 bucks.
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#60 2005-11-05 2:55 pm
Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
Murano == best looking car ever.
I find FruitMenu saves quite a bit of time after the initial configure.
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#61 2005-11-06 3:09 am
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
it looks like a shoe to me
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#62 2005-12-10 11:21 am
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
cedar wrote:
I just upgraded to TIGER. I really like it... but why-oh-why does Apple continue to shove the dock down our mouths?
How I pine for the "apple menu". I never accidently launched an ap. while selecting colors in an Illustrator file back then!
Anybody know of a widget that'll work like an apple menu or even the OS 10.1 favorites folder?
I almost never use the Dock.
I've been using Classic Menu from sigsoftware.com for a long time. It looks just like the old Apple Menu and is easy to set up. I like it better than Fruitmenu. I also couldn't live without Drop Drawers from the same company. It lets you put windows that shrink down to little tabs on any edge of your monitor. You can put anything you want in the windows, text clippings, URLs, aliases, pictures, whatever.
The last thing I couldn't live without that went missing from OS 9 is the Finder Menu. To replace it I use ASM (Application Switcher Menu) from vercruesse.de . It brings back all the functionality that was lost in OS X. They are all shareware so go ahead and try them out. BTW, all these were suggested from the magazine so keep that in mind. The first pic is of Classic Menu, the second one has both ASM and a couple of Drop Drawers. I vaguely remember a 3rd party app back in the pre-OS9 days that did the same thing as Drop Drawers, anyone remember that?
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#63 2005-12-10 12:40 pm
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
That's the great thing about X. Don't like what apple has for you? There are smurfing loads of shareware/freeware programs that will probably do exactly what you want. People should quit bitching if Apple didn't ask them specifically how they would have written X.
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#64 2005-12-10 2:39 pm
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
I just counted and I have 65 applications in the dock.
Wow
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#65 2005-12-10 6:05 pm
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
XMenu is free, works great and does not require anything iffy like APE
http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/13797
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#66 2005-12-10 7:33 pm
Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
Pariah wrote:
XMenu is free, works great and does not require anything iffy like APE
http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/13797
Are you still using Finderpop?
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#68 2005-12-10 9:36 pm
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
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Pariah wrote:
XMenu is free, works great and does not require anything iffy like APE
http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/13797Are you still using Finderpop?
Yes, I should have mentioned FinderPop. I use a subset of my apps in my FinderPop items, just the ones I frequently open files with from the finder.
My other frequently used are in Xmenu.
Actually I have some apps redundant in combinations of the Dock, FinderPop and XMenu.
The plan and logic behind the way I organize things probly only makes sense to me but thats in keeping with the Mac tradition. Someone used to the defaults in OSX would be pretty befuzzeled by the weird way I have things set up I am sure.
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#69 2005-12-10 11:06 pm
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
The Dock is cool.
If you need more and most people do, try Butler, Alias Menu or FruitMenu.
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#70 2005-12-11 12:20 am
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
Or just drop your applications folder in the dock and right click on it
Instant old school Apple menu...only this one doesn't need to be updated manually.
Personally, I think the applications folder should be a dock item from at the default installation.
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#71 2005-12-11 12:20 pm
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Re: The more I use OS X - the more I hate the dock
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Or just drop your applications folder in the dock and right click on it
Instant old school Apple menu...only this one doesn't need to be updated manually.
Personally, I think the applications folder should be a dock item from at the default installation.
You don't even have to right click it, just click and hold, then navigate up, up and away! The first thing I always do when getting a new machine is to drop all hard drives as well as all my main folders into the dock. Although, I don't usually use it, if my cursor is near the both of my screen, I'll use the dock. I still recommend Classic Menu for the majority of the time.
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