RocketDock Redux
Posted on November 11, 2006
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I first mentioned RocketDock back in August as an aside. This is a really slick (and free!) way to put commonly used programs in front of you. I mentioned it again earlier this week as part of my New Desktop Look post. That post generated a couple comments about it and I thought a short follow-up was in order.
What makes RD better or more useful than the built-in XP QuickLaunch toolbar? Well, the young folks might disagree, but for me the simple answer would be, “Bigger Buttons.” Yep, just that simple. As a result, I add things that I frequently use to RocketDock for easy access.
Is it dramatically different than QuickLaunch? Nope. But it hides itself politely when not in the foreground, and jumps to the front when I hover my mouse in the general area. The icons are larger and, dare I say, “prettier”. And… well, I’ve always been jealous of the Max OS X guys and this helps alleviate that pain. 
To continue, I like a clean desktop and this also allows me to hide the QuickLaunch bar. By hiding that toolbar, I get more room down there for running programs. Everyone wins and who doesn’t like that nifty bouncing icon when a program is launched?!?
It’s incredibly configurable — you can even adjust that icon size to not be quite so huge. It tends to consume under 10MB of memory on my assorted machines. 10MB is very easy to donate towards this sort of application.
Conclusion? RocketDock falls under the title of “Gems I’ve mentioned that I still use months later.” It really is that useful. I have it on pretty much every machine I use on a daily basis.
Tags: desktop, RocketDock, utility, Windows
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Yep, rocket dock is pretty awesome! I’ve been using it for 2 weeks now, don’t know how I got along without it!