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Nexus: Easy to configure dock-style application launcher
by Brad Linder Jun 29th 2009 at 6:00PM
There are a ton of advanced settings, many of which have to do with the program's animations and other visual elements. Adding programs to the dock is as simple as dragging and dropping them. You can remove shortcuts by dragging them to the trash bin.
The makers of Nexus also offer a commercial application called WinStep Xtreme which bundles Nexus with a desktop replacement called WorkShelf and a start menu organizer called Winstep Start Menu. If you shell out the $24.95 for WinStep Xtreme you also get a few extra features for the Nexus dock, including multi-level docks.
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Troy said 7:06PM on 6-29-2009
Rocketdock is much better. This is a resource hog.
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Xavier said 10:14PM on 6-29-2009
I have been using this for a few months now. It works extremely well. The only complaint I have is that when you click a running apps icon it does not bring it to the front. Of course I just use alt tab for no big deal.
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Money Mike said 10:14PM on 6-29-2009
I love RocketDock and don't see anything new here that would make me want to switch. In fact, I'm troubled to see that there's a pay version at all when RocketDock is completely free.
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blaszta said 10:19PM on 6-29-2009
Download & playing around with it for 30 minutes.
Nice interface, slow response, not as extensible as RD (RocketDock), use twice RAM compare to RD (my RD has 20 icons compare to default Nexus setup).
Maybe
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blaszta said 10:17PM on 6-29-2009
Download & playing around with it for 30 minutes.
Nice interface, slow response, not as extensible as RD (RocketDock), use twice RAM compare to RD (my RD has 20 icons compare to default Nexus setup).
Maybe next version will better? :-D
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gtd said 8:24AM on 6-30-2009
Seriously? The RD team is combing the boards to pounce on the competition?
I've tried RD and whatever the other popular one is, uninstalled both within 24 hours.
Checked this one out as I'm still looking for something to play around with and have been tweaking this for a few hours now....and I'm kind of digging it. Doesn't use hardly any of my resources, and I can't imagine my computer is any better than the first poster's (I wish I could say otherwise). Totally not slow at all either, although it is using a whopping 20mb.
Free version is pretty worthy, thanks for the post DLS.
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phez said 8:25AM on 6-30-2009
... or maybe rocketdock actually does use less resources?
im sticking with rocketdock as well, but mostly because i don't know why nexus taking up 80% the width of my screen (lolwut).
LucasPeee said 8:25AM on 6-30-2009
Loads of features not bad, on the same par as memory usage with Rocketdock on my system. Y'z Dock still my favorite, 1/3 memory usage of Nexus or Rocketdock.
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NyaR said 8:25AM on 6-30-2009
I still miss YZ Dock
Apple singled out this poor dock for being to awesome, and now there are 100000000 others, WHERE IS THE LOGIC?
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