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StandaloneStack Is An Awesome File Browsing Widget
4:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: We’ve already shown you how you can browse through files from the Stacks widget in the upcoming Snow Leopard release—but you can get that feature right now on your Windows PC. More »
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Nexus Dock Has Leopard-Style Eye-Candy Effects
6:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: WinStep Nexus Dock has just about every feature you’d expect from a dock—it’s got widgets, mouse-over effects, skins, drag-and-drop, and even supports Vista Aero Glass effects. More »
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Build A No-Slip Phone Dock And Charger For $5
4:30AM Adam Pash | Yesterday’s simple guide to turning old CDs into an iPod dock inspired reader longbourne to write in with his own DIY phone/iPod dock and charging station, and we’re impressed. More »
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Turn Old CDs Into A DIY IPod Dock
4:00AM The How-To Geek | Got a pile of old, scratched-up coasters that you don’t really need anymore? You can repurpose them into a dock for your iPod, iPhone or other audio player. More »
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Permanently Disable The OS X Bouncing Dock Icon Effect
6:00AM The How-To Geek | Mac OS X only: Have you ever been busy getting something done when the dock icon starts bouncing up and down? The Switching To Mac blog writes up the process of completely disabling that effect. More »
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SliderDock Puts Application Launchers In A Desktop Ring
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: Looking for a different kind of application launcher for your Windows desktop? SliderDock puts your app icons in an easy-sliding ring instead of a bottom-hugging dock, and can be customised to fit any theme. More »
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XWindows Dock Provides An OS X-Style Dock In Windows
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: If the application dock on your friend’s Mac fills you with envy, you might want to check out XWindows Dock, a full-featured OSX dock clone. XWindows Dock certainly isn’t the first dock bar for Windows we’ve featured—RocketDock and ObjectDock are two popular options covered in the past. Although much newer to the scene than the aforementioned options, XWindowsDock has an eye-pleasing array of features. The visual appearance is easily customisable with settings covering opacity and blue, spacing, icon size, and many more aspects. If you’re not interested in tweaking settings, the default is more than serviceable, and the application is skin-able to take advantage of other peoples’ design chops. You can minimise applications to the dock, save folders to it, and even preview images and video on it. One small oversight is the lack of support for dragging applications to the dock to create shortcuts. Application shortcuts are added by searching from the dock for the executable. Not a deal breaker for most people, but if you’re a frequent dock re-arranger you may miss the convenience. Also as you can see in the screenshot above, some of the default icons for applications come out a bit fuzzy—grabbing icons from the icon sets we shared last week would be a definite improvement.For more features and screenshots, check out the site below. XWindows Dock is freeware, Windows only. XWindows Dock [Download Squad] More »
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The Windows 2019 Desktop
4:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Reader Painkilla05’s stylish desktop was inspired from a Microsoft research video showing what computer interfaces might look like in the year 2019. More »
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Print Out A Cardboard iPhone Dock
1:10AM Gina Trapani | The crafty bloggers at the Geeky Gadgets web site don’t want to pay an extra $35 for an iPhone 3G dock, so they fashioned one out of cardboard—and are now offering the cut-out template as a free downloadable PDF. You’ll need a printer, some adhesive, a craft knife, and some light cardboard to cut this out and fold on your own. Check out a video clip of the construction. More »
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