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XWindows Dock, a free windows dock launcher that provides Mac OSX docker visual style on your Windows computer. Previously we have mentioned it before and now the Windows Mac OSX docker application has hits version 2 beta.
The new version XWindows Dock boasts of a new engine, new skins, new plug-ins, better look and faster performance. Plus more, the new Mac OSX dock now also supports Windows 7.
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According to the developer, XWindows Dock has been redesign again with more powerfull, stable and fastest dock for Windows platform. Meanwhile, XWindows Dock also has improved icon rendering and now even the native icons of applications looks gorgeous with shadows, live reflections and new animations. Plus more, this Windows Mac OSX docks allows you make own skin in 5 minutes.
You can simply use drag & drop everywhere and Set an icon for any application or add whatever you want to see in the dock – just drop it!
Other features listed on XWindows Dock:
- Auto-update. Now XWDock can check updates and will be notify user if new version is available (internet connection required).
- Keyboard shortcuts allows you to use “hidden features” of the XWDock.
- Clean and simple Preferences window.
- Reserving space of the screen allow you to work with Dock at any time from anywhere.
- Make your XWDock autostart with Windows.
- Partial support of the ObjectDock docklets. Some features won’t work.
- Windows 7's new Taskbar has drawn many comparisons to Mac OS X's Dock, and many of them negative, with the overwhelming concern that Windows is becoming too Mac-like.
- OS X’s Dock is a key part of the operating system that has helped define the Mac experience for over a decade, and as OS X has changed so too has Apple’s implementation of the Dock. Like many aspects of OS X, however, end users can customize the Dock to better suit their tastes and workflow.
- To sum up, Aqua Dock is a MacOS-inspired tool that can add personality and new functions to Windows computer, as long as it runs XP or later. Filed under Quick Launcher Docking Bar OS X Launcher.
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Windows 7's new Taskbar has drawn many comparisons to Mac OS X's Dock, and many of them negative, with the overwhelming concern that Windows is becoming too Mac-like. Even among Mac users, the new Taskbar is unlikely to be universally appreciated, as many feel that the Dock is deeply flawed.
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On a superficial level, the similarity is obvious; both Dock and Taskbar are rows of large icons used for application launching and switching. Closer examination, however, reveals that there's a long way to go before anyone should worry that Microsoft is slavishly following Apple. The Windows UI isn't turning into the Mac OS X UI—not yet, at least.
UI Paradigms
In order to fully appreciate the differences between the Taskbar and Dock, we first have to understand the basic premises on which Windows and OS X are built. Much of the material in this section will be remedial for the majority of readers, but it pays to cover it anyway, since it lays an important foundation for the rest of the article.
The fundamental distinction between OS X and Windows is that, in general, windows on Mac OS X represent documents; on Windows, they represent applications. This conceptual difference motivates many of the UI features of both OSes, and understanding it is key to understanding the two operating systems.
In practice, the most obvious repercussion of this difference is that on Mac OS X, closing the last window of an application does not exit the application itself. After all, each window is merely a document, and just because there are no documents open does not mean that the application should close; perhaps the next action will be to create a new document or open an existing one. In Windows, on the other hand, closing the last window generally closes the application completely. Because the application is the window, closing the window naturally closes the application with it.
So, for example, in this screenshot we see TextEdit is running with a single document window open. Closing that document doesn't close TextEdit; it's still running, just without any windows (that is, documents) open.
TextEdit has no windows, but is running all the same
In Windows, by contrast, closing the last document window closes the application:
With no windows, Notepad has nowhere to run, so it quits—hence the Taskbar no longer has a Notepad icon.
The Mac's window-per-document model naturally leads all Mac software to be able to load and display multiple documents simultaneously; to have multiple documents, just create multiple windows.
Multiple documents just mean multiple windows; no problem
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The situation isn't so clear-cut on Windows. Because each window represents an entire application, what should an application do if the user wants to load two documents simultaneously? The lack of a single good answer means that Windows applications exhibit a variety of behaviors. The simplest policy is that used by Notepad; Notepad simply can't open multiple documents, and so to get multiple documents you just run multiple copies of the application.
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Multiple Notepad documents means multiple Notepad applications
![Dock Dock](/uploads/1/2/6/6/126608942/339767963.jpg)
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While this works reasonably well for small, lightweight applications like Notepad, it's not so satisfactory for larger applications, and as a result we see a variety of other behaviors in other Windows programs.