Re: DockMod

Date	2014-03-09 18:24 -0400
From	Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: DockMod
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On 2014.03.09, 18:08 , billy@MIX.COM wrote:
> Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> writes:
>
>>> http://DockMod.COM
>>
>> Solution in search of a problem, IMO.  It's true that the "on" apps
>> lights since Lion (or ML) don't exactly leap off the screen, but they're
>> adequate - not worth a 3rd party fix, IMO.
>
> That's not a problem, both for me (I like them as they are),
> and for anyone who wants to patch them - it's separate files.
>
>> UI's have become so clean, generally, that modifying them, especially
>> with a 3rd party "solution", seems very 1995.
>
> Elegance is timeless.
>
> But, you just said, elsewhere (comp.sys.mac.apps) -
>
>> I agree it's not clear - Apple are good at that.  Like sidebar items in
>> Finder that are hidden unless you cursor over the "Show" button that is
>> hidden too (until you cursor over it).
>
> Heh.

You play nasty!

The thing I mention above is similar to the dock app lights.  Useless 
waste of someone's time at Apple and of no value to users.  That said, 
I'm not about to add 3rd party apps for nits like that.

OTOH, it seems a natural to have a trash timer option such as that in 
Apple Mail.  So I added an app to do that for my trash (24h) and my SO's 
trash on her MBA (2 weeks).

It's nice to have passive utilities to monitor the system (Menu Meters, 
iStat and so on).

For some reason my new USB 3.0 docks keep sleeping the drives, so I 
wrote a little app to write a short file to each of them and erase it 
every 5 minutes (the app sleeps otherwise).

-- 
    ... it may be that "in the cloud" really isn't the best term
    for the services these companies offer.  What they really
    want is to have us "on the leash."
                   -David Pogue, Scientific American, 2014.02

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DockMod billy@MIX.COM - 2014-03-09 00:06 +0000
  Re: DockMod Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-09 07:32 +0000
    Re: DockMod billy@MIX.COM - 2014-03-09 15:32 +0000
      Re: DockMod Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-09 23:12 +0000
        Re: DockMod billy@MIX.COM - 2014-03-10 03:00 +0000
          Re: DockMod Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-03-10 04:04 +0000
          Re: DockMod Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-10 17:06 -0400
            Re: DockMod billy@MIX.COM - 2014-03-10 23:57 +0000
    Re: DockMod Alan Ralph <alan.ralph@gmail.com> - 2014-03-09 15:40 +0000
  Re: DockMod Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-09 12:06 -0400
    Re: DockMod billy@MIX.COM - 2014-03-09 22:08 +0000
      Re: DockMod Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-03-09 18:24 -0400

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