ObjectDock 1.9 released
Faster, Prettier, Easier to use, and more usable!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Stardock has released ObjectDock 1.9. ObjectDock is a free program that adds a configurable, skinnable dock to Windows. Once installed, users can add short-cuts, display running tasks, and add mini-applets called docklets to their docks that can display weather information, time, system info, or much anything else.
ObjectDock 1.9 adds a host of new features including a Start menu docklet (for bringing up the real Start menu in the system tray), live thumbnail previews on Windows Vista, a new weather docklet, minimize and restore effects on Windows Vista, free-form screen positioning, a new graphics engine for massively better performance, reduce memory requirements, new tileable dock backgrounds, and much more.
ObjectDock is a free download at http://www.objectdock.com. Stardock also has ObjectDock Plus which adds support for multiple docks, tabbed docks, system tray support, additional mouse-over effects and more.
Article: ObjectDock gets a facelift
Screenshot: Tileable dock backgrounds Screenshot: Start Menu docklet Screenshot: ObjectDock explained
Download: ObjectDock 1.9
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Reply #2 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:37 PM
Edit: I'm not seeing the same Object Dock properties box as shown in the Screenshot for Tileable Backgrounds above.
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Reply #5 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:16 PM
Available on zooming docks, scroll through...you'll see there is i think 4 tile backgrounds included updated to use the latest skinning features. Give them a try!Bender50: Try CityName, PrivinceAbbreviation. "Toronto, ON" works for me! We plan on continually improving the location-recognation code here on the server-side to make it better at recognizing the location you've entered.
Reply #6 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:16 PM
put your city and province. for me its Calgary, AB and works fine.
Reply #7 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:23 PM
Its the little things that count
Reply #8 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:34 PM
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Reply #13 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 3:38 PM
Hope to hear back from someone...anyone...soon. 
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Reply #15 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:24 PM
Great work!
I like very much the new style, but I found a problem.
My IE becomes very slow when the objectdock is running (the IE consumes all the CPU for severals seconds at any command). If I turn off the objectdock, the IE returns to normal.
I discovered also if I run the IE as administrator, the problem doesn't appear.
Does anyone else have this problem?
My system:
Intel Duo Core 2.0Ghz
Memory: 2Gb
Graphic card: ATI Radeon X1600
Windows Vista Ultimate
Internet Explorer 7
Reply #16 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:35 PM
Reply #17 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:50 PM
I'm also enjoying the performance and image quality increase
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Reply #20 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 5:19 PM
the "windows start" docklet doesn't work. Everytime I try to use it, objectdock ask me to "try later"... strange.
the "ram and CPU" docklet also doen't work (it craches the program when I try to use it)
I am using Windows Vista.
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