What's Running in Your Dock, Right Now?

[ScottW]

Here is an interesting thread, what is running in your Doc at this moment?

• Finder
• Leap
• RingCentral Call Controller
• QuickSilver
• iTerm
• Mail.app
• iCal
• Address Book
• OmniFocus
• Coda
• OfficeTime
• Yojimbo
• BBEdit
• Adium
• Safari
• 1Password
• Firefox
• Preview
• iTunes
• EyeTV
• AliveChat
• Interarchy
• NetNewsWire
• OmniPlan
• Remote Desktop
• CrashPlan
• Adobe Acrobat

Your turn!

[bbloke]

Wow, that's quite a list! Are they all running at the same time or just present in the Dock?

On my system, the apps that are actually running right at this very point:

• Finder (obviously!)
• Terminal
• Activity Monitor
• Mail
• Safari
• iTunes

Apps that are always in the Dock:

• Finder
• Network Utility
• iSync
• Aabel
• iChat
• Adium
• Terminal
• Console
• Disk Utility
• Activity Monitor
• Time Machine
• System Preferences
• Exposé
• Dashboard
• Spaces
• Mail
• Safari
• iCal
• Address Book
• VMware Fusion
• iPhoto
• Photo Booth
• Snapz Pro X
• Keychain Access
• SubEthaEdit

I primarily access 3rd party applications by keeping my Applications folder in the Dock (using Stacks), though.

[nixgeek]

Oh man, someone started the same thing over at the 68KMLA forum.

Here's what I was had on my Dock at the time when that was asked there (shouldn't be too much different from now ). These aren't what's actively running, just what's listed on there.

My iMac G5 is still on 10.4.11....

• Finder
• Dashboard
• TextEdit
• OpenOffice 2.4
• Firefox (3.0.1)
• Camino (1.6.1)
• Thunderbird
• KompoZer
• Gimp.app
• Chicken of the VNC
• CyberDuck
• Adium
• MAME OS X
• OpenArena
• Skype
• Poisoned
• Azureus
• Transmission
• iTunes
• iPhoto
• iMovie HD
• JackPilot
• Ardour2
• GarageBand
• Audio MIDI Setup
• Burn
• iDVD
• VLC
• QuickTime Player
• Terminal
• Activity Monitor
• Console
• Network Utility
• X11
• Printer Setup Utility
• System Preferences
• Disk Utility
• ClamXav
• ffmpegX

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• Applications folder
• Home folder
• Trash

Usually what's running are the following:

• Firefox
• Camino
• Adium
• iTunes
• GarageBand
• Terminal
• MAME OS X

[minckster]

I tend to quit things (habit from my Windows days?), so running in the dock are only:

• Finder
• Mail.app
• Firefox
• Vienna
• iCal
• Address Book
• iTunes
• TextEdit
• Terminal
• Activity Monitor

[Mikuro]

• = Running
° = Not running, but in the Dock

• Finder
• iCab
• Firefox
• BBEdit Lite
• TextWrangler
• iTunes
• QuickTime Player
• An image viewer I wrote
° The Unarchiver
° An AppleScript droplet I wrote to quickly make working copies of XCode projects
° VLC
° Script Editor
• Audio Hijack
• Preview
• TextEdit
° Tofu
° Color It
• Calculator
• Terminal
• Activity Monitor
° Another application I wrote
• Bean
• Full Tilt Poker
• XCode
• Yet another application I wrote (currently debugging in XCode)

[Greg_Reez]

• = Running

• Finder
Dashboard
• Firefox
• Acrobat
• Illustrator
• Photoshop
• InDesign
Flash
Mojo
• iTunes
System Pref.
Grab
Cyberduck
Time Machine
• Entourage
• Word
Excel
• Messenger
Printer Proxy
• Powerpoint

[dornquast]

Wakoopa Tracker lets you automatically share what you're using & how much. It's pretty darn neat.

http://wakoopa.com/dornquast

Oh - and CrashPlan all the way!

[ScottW]

Yes, all applications I listed in the first post where running. I didn't include applications NOT running which include...

System Preferences
Transmit
Photoshop
Skype
Quicktime
MacCaching
Parallels

I tend to just leave everything running... but when you have a Mac and a stable machine what can you ask for. If I reboot, I usually just start going down the line and click, click, click on all the dock icons since I use most of them.