Free Software Vista Sunday: Rocketdock, Mac-like dock for Windows
By Jonathan Schlaffer
Have you always envied Mac users and how they always talk about how OSX is so great, including the dock feature. Well, now you can get that feature for Windows XP or Vista and for free.
Rocketdock is a free dock clone for Windows and is based off the somewhat popular ObjectDock dock clone which is made by Stardock but why buy that when Rocketdock is free.
It has several features that make it quite useful. If you turn on the “minimize windows to dock” feature, it has live previews just like the Vista taskbar would, but note that live previews for the dock is only available in Windows Vista. And just like OSX, it highlights currently running programs and can be set to open a new instance of the program or open the existing session.
You can customize the dock to your liking and even support further development, if you want but you will not be coerced to do so.
To whet your appetite here is a screenshot of what my desktop looks like with Rocketdock installed. To get the same look on your desktop you will need a couple other utilities which will be revealed in the following weeks. Before you ask, that is indeed Vista Home Premium.
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October 15th, 2007
I tried this and for free software it is absolutely fantastic.
Considering I paid £10 for Stardock’s Objectdock Plus a few years ago, I’ll continue to use that. I’ve had free updates for it ever since and it is faster/more featured than Rocketdock.
Nonetheless Rocketdock is a really cool app - the iconset is very nice indeed! Would recommend it to anyone who doesn’t want to pay for a dock.
-JonS
October 17th, 2007
ObjectDock has a free version as well.
October 18th, 2007
Yes but the free version of Objectdock is not quite as full featured as Rocketdock but by the same token the free Rocketdock is not as fully featured as the paid version of Objectdock.
November 7th, 2007
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November 8th, 2007
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November 12th, 2007
come on guys, last time someone did this apple threatened and they stopped. Nice little app called Y’Z Dock