If, on the other hand, you appreciate having the items you use most often available as clickable icons in nicely defined, customizable docks, you owe yourself a test drive. DragThing Replacement Apple Community, it looks like DragThing is being deep-sixed by James Thomson. If you’re the kind of person who routinely calls up Spotlight to launch applications and locate items on your Mac using your keyboard, DragThing’s mouse-focused interface may not be for you. Whether DragThing is a good fit for you depends a lot on how you like to interact with your Mac. There are only so many items you can pack into it before it’s unmanageably crowded, you can have only one instance of it, it doesn’t support clippings, and it can’t show document previews. Our poll results suggest that most TidBITS readersmostly longtime Mac userslargely ignore Launchpad, with 70 of the 800-plus respondents to our poll saying they never use it. But the Dock is also far more limited than DragThing. Apple’s Dock supports spring-loaded folders, displays currently running as well as favorite applications and folders, and can house launchable Web links. One could argue that, with OS X’s Dock, DragThing is less necessary than it was in the OS 9 days. Automator already includes lots of tutorials, and there’s plenty of tutorials and downloadable actions already made check out MacScripter and Apple Orchard, as well as the (now badly neglected) Apple Developer docs. But once you’ve done that, the items you need are just a click or drag away-there’s no need to think of names, commands, paths, or addresses.

If you need to replace DragThing, look no. Welcome to iCollections, the app that makes organizing your Mac. DragThing requires that you do a certain amount of legwork ahead of time, to think of the things you’re going to want to launch and then to populate your docks with them. Open the Mac App Store to buy and download apps. The best Dragthing alternative is Fences. There are more than 50 alternatives to Dragthing for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and BSD apps. That focus can be useful, because if you can think of the name of a thing, you can launch it. Later, we were pleasantly surprised when we booted Mac OS X and DragThing automatically asked if we wanted to import the Mac OS 9 configuration. Dragthing is described as DragThing is the original dock designed to tidy up your Macintosh desktop and is a application launcher in the os & utilities category. QuickSilver ( ) all have their adherents, and for good reason-they’re all solid utilities that can do more than simply launch applications.īut they’re keyboard-focused. Praise for any launching utility is going to elicit a chorus of “Yeah, buts” from those who’ve aligned themselves with a different one.

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