Hunting The Muse

OS X Desktop Utilities

Well, I finally dumped DragThing. What a relief! I played a bit with QuickSilver, and didn't like it. What I liked about dragthing was that the launcher I had set up - applications put in categories - also helped serve as a visual reminder to launch some apps occasionally that I wouldn't have thought to launch through remembering to type an abbreviation. Like Quicken. If I had to just randomly remember, I'd never start the damn thing.

So, I'm using Butler. I have a docklet that just has five items - Volumes, and four iTunes smart items (song info, skip back, play/pause, and skip forward). And then on top of that, I created a container that contains other containers, called "Launcher", where I recreated all my favorite app categories. I've got it as a hot corner in the upper left, and I also have option-command-L bound to bring it up in the center of the screen.

I nuked DragThing, and put my dock back on the bottom of my screen. Ahh. Much cleaner now.

Posted by Curt at January 3, 2005 07:22 PM