14 DAY TRIAL // Developer Patrick Chamelo has updated Dock Spaces, his Mac OS X utility that de-clutters your view by allowing you to swap through ten different Docks, across different spaces. The new version adds new toolbar icons, and a new toolbar button for easy access to the main functions of the app.
With the release of Dock Spaces 2.40, developer Patrick Chamelo added the ability to integrate up to six more spaces than previously supported (ten). Now, Dock Spaces adds new toolbar icons and, in the settings, a new toolbar button for immediate access to stuff like Bouncing icons, Lock dock contents, Icons transparency, Auto-hide Dock, 2D/3D, Dock alignment, Dock position, Show active corners and Show expose button. More minor tweaks include improved spaces integration, a new notification method and the ability to have more menubar icons.
By providing options to select whether or not icons bounce in one Dock, or by setting another to automatically hide itself while the rest are in Tiger-style 2D, with different alignment and positioning, users can tailor their Mac's application launcher to their exact needs. Dock Spaces also works side by side with OS X Leopard's own Spaces feature and can equip them with ten different Docks.
There are numerous applications that allow Mac users to modify the looks and the works of their Dock, but none offers the many advantages of Dock Spaces, from a functionality point of view. Given that the utility is completely free to download and use, there is no reason why one shouldn't download and at least try Dock Spaces to see how it fits their Mac.
Fresh out of Beta, Dock Spaces also adds “hotkeys,” allowing you to swap through your docks and spaces employing whatever combination of keys you find most suitable. Unfortunately for Tiger users, Dock Spaces is only available for OS X 10.5 Leopard. The app is a Universal Binary, compatible with both PowerPC and Intel machines.