Winstep Nexus dock 9.11 Final released!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News
The Winstep Nexus Dock is a free Windows dock application that provides fast access to your most frequently used applications, with flexible options allowing it to dock or float anywhere on the screen. Every feature you’d expect from a dock and much more, including widgets, mouse-over effects, skins, drag-and-drop, and even live icon reflections and support for Vista Aero Glass effects. Completely customizable, has thousands of backgrounds freely available online and is fully compatible with backgrounds for all other docks.
Nexus Features:
- Fully compatible with Windows 7 and all 64 bit versions of Windows.
- Live icon reflections.
- Dock magnification, swing, bounce, afterglow and many other incredible mouse over effects.
- Water ripple, fluid surface, fluid reflections and many more dock animation effects.
- Automatic Vista glass blur for semi-transparent dock backgrounds.
- Running application indicators.
- Supports drag & drop of virtual file system objects (My Computer, Control Panel, etc...).
- Completely customizable - thousands of backgrounds freely available online.
- Fully compatible with skins for all other docks.
- Full drag & drop support with extremely easy to use and intuitive User Interface.
- Multi-monitor support.
- ... and many, many, other incredible features!
Winstep Website: http://www.winstep.net
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Reply #23 Monday, November 30, 2009 5:05 AM
Reply #24 Monday, November 30, 2009 6:19 AM
Especially because Winstep Xtreme is modular and you can run only the applications you want.
I understand your frustration with Stardock for not releasing a new version of ObjectDock in nearly two years, but there is a thread dedicated to that in the Wincustomize forums, here is definitely not the place to vent about it.
As for the systray support in Nexus docks, the only reason I haven't added it yet is because I am busy doing the new User Interface for the NextSTART component of Winstep Xtreme and I MUST finish that first (WorkShelf's new User Interface with multi-language support is done already in 9.11 Beta 5, by the way).
The next version of Nexus in Winstep Xtreme will add support for the systray in docks (the technology for manipulating multiple copies of the systray is already in NextSTART), but I guess the free Nexus version won't feature it (much like ObjectDock free vs. ObjectDock Plus).
Reply #25 Monday, November 30, 2009 7:06 AM
Winstep is composed of NextSTART, NeXuS and WorkShelf. They can be used together (Winstep Extreme) or separately. It is it's own system and isn't at all 'bloated' as you seem to think. If you give it a try (there is free trialware at Winstep.net) I'm sure you'll see how incorrect your statement is.
Why not give it a try? What have you got to lose? I use both at different times for different purposes. It really isn't a contest about "Which is better software".
Also...I really don't think I.D. would give a member here a bum steer. There are dozens of apps which surface and which are not mentioned in his news items, so maybe you should be taking that as an implicit recommendation?
Reply #26 Monday, November 30, 2009 7:13 AM
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Reply #29 Tuesday, December 1, 2009 5:45 AM
My Xtreme sub ran out a couple of weeks ago and I'll have to wait 'til next week before I can renew, but it all sounds so interesting and I'm anxious to see all the new features of 9.11..
I'm running Win 7 x64 Home Premium and haven't installed Xtreme as yet (distracted and kept forgetting), but I'll certainly be putting it on in the next few minutes. Having no Winstep Xtreme on my PC is like being naked in the mall.
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Reply #21 Saturday, November 28, 2009 9:21 AM