Dock Gone 1.0.3 - Hides Dock entirely until specifically requested. (Shareware)

Dock Gone keeps the Mac OS X Dock out of your way so that it doesn’t interrupt your work.

While you can always hide the Dock without Dock Gone, it will reappear whenever you mouse over the edge of the screen, blocking whatever is below the cursor. And you can be sure it will happen at the worst possible time. Dock Gone prevents this by moving the Dock completely out of your way, effectively turning it off until you ask for it back.

More than one way to turn off a Dock: Dock Gone gives you several ways to turn the Dock off.

• within the Dock Gone Preference Pane in System Preferences
• in a menu in the menu bar
• using a global keyboard shortcut that you define

Why turn off the Dock instead of just hide it? Since Mac OS X first appeared, users have had a love-hate relationship with the Dock and its auto-hide feature. While it’s beautiful and useful, there are times when it just gets in the way. Scrolling long documents, navigating long menus in web browsers, and dragging documents around the screen can all inadvertently trigger the Dock to appear exactly at the wrong time. If you move just a little too close to the edge of the screen, the Dock insists on reasserting itself whether it’s wanted or not. This gets old fast. Especially for users who like to get the most out of their screen real-estate, it happens way too often.

Dock Gone is the Leopard-compatible way to keep the Dock out of your way until you specifically ask for it. Press its hot key, and the Dock will disappear. Try all you want, you cannot get the Dock to appear when Dock Gone is active. Press the hot key again, and the Dock reappears in exactly the same place and with the same settings as you had before.

No more Terminal commands. No more Dock appearing when you’re scrolling through a long document. No more losing your old Dock settings.

Dock Gone will become your constant companion, and you'll come to expect the Dock to always behave as it does when you have Dock Gone installed, no matter what Mac you're using.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 1.0.3:

• Removed the segmented control that had been added in 1.0.2.
• There was a bug where minimizing a window while the Dock was hidden, if the new "Minimize windows into application icon" preference was selected in the Dock Preferences, would cause the Dock to crash. This has been fixed.
• Upgrading Dock Gone could cause a second version of Dock Gone to run due to a bug in System Preferences. This has been fixed.

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Compatible with Mac OS X 10.6

PRICE

$14.95

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