Docktop, Curiosity…. Satisfied!
You may have noticed those cool “embedded” buttons at the Apple Store demo machines. Usually they have a link to Apple’s homepage, and a button that send you to a page that lets you make appointments to see the Apple genius, and the Events Calender. At first I thought it was some kind of special application running, so I quickly checked the activity monitor for any conspicuous Apps running in the background, nothing! What could it be? A special build of OS X? Nope. After much research and a few emails to an apple tech engineer it turns out its just a rewrite of a specific part of the dock controller, made specifically for the Apple Retail machines.
While my curiosity was satisfied I was still on a quest to get one of my own, thats when I stumbled upon Docktop. From Docktop’s website:
Docktop is a launcher for Mac OS X with versatile customization options. This background-only application provides a dynamic launchbar on your desktop — behind or above the icons — to which you can add items to open applications, files, folders, weblinks, or AppleScripts.
Wanna spice up your static desktop, Give Docktop a try!
