Iffy's Tech Specs: Software XXIII

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Easy to use shortcut organizer
Simple drag & drop operation
Convenient autohide and "keep in background" modes
The most popular program of its kind - 3.5 million users to date
Fully customizable - tons of backgrounds and images freely available
Low system resource usage
Smooth animations
Designed to run smoothly even on older computers
Weather flyout showing your current conditions & 5-day forecast
The universal standard for Docklet extensions
Helpful support team and message boards
Consistent updates - will continue to be updated and improved for years and years to come
We listen to customer feedback - new features and abilities added to each revision
Running programs show up on dock, can minimize to it
Super-smooth minimize animations in Vista
Many languages supported, unicode compliant

History:
New in v1.9

Brand new weather docklet - New docklet uses brand new technology to fly out your 5 day forecast when you click on it or hover over it, and hides it when your mouse goes away.
Zoomin/Zoomout smoothness significantly enhanced, and is now adjustable. Find the new options in the "Quality & Performance" settings
ObjectDock now comes bundled with some really great artwork (icons and backgrounds) from the community. (Permission recieved to use all of the images involved).
New artwork has been pre-associated with over 50 different programs. As result, chances are if you add a program, it will show up with a nice high-resolution icon!
New minimize effect on Vista! When Live Thumbnails are in use on Vista and your dock is showing a taskbar, windows will now do a nice minimize animation into any zooming dock. I
Super-smooth live-minimize effect: Effort was made to make it work with minimal to no interference to your workflow, and the animation should never jump around / flicker heavily at the end unlike other versions of this effect you may have seen.
"Live previews" for files and folders are now available. While folders will not have their icons update automatically if their contents change, when loaded folders will show as their correct preview. The same with other types of documents that offer a live preview (PDF's, etc)
In Vista, all minimized windows will show up as a live mini-thumbnail in the ObjectDock taskbar! Optionally you can have all windows, minimized or not, show up as thumbnails. Note: this feature is only
available for zooming docks, it does not support tabbed docks.
New background ability - Tile-based backgrounds can now adjust the size/position of the original icon, end result, really cool tiled backgrounds. Check out the included HyperGrass theme for an example of how cool tiled backgrounds can now be!
Completely redone the mouse-activation / layering system. See the new "interaction" area in zooming dock's positioning options. The new interaction abilities should make ObjectDock a much more pleasent program to use.
Custom icons set for program file shortcuts now automatically sync with custom icons set for windows of a program in taskbars.
Entry areas in shortcut dialogs now use AutoComplete
Entering in generic terms or filetypes such as "internet", "email", ".doc", etc for a shortcut will now
Background code *significantly* improved.
New "Troubleshooting" dialog with quick access to disabling features of ObjectDock
Increased drawing optimization code's ability to manage images. Should result in quicker than ever drawing and decreased memory usage for zooming docks.
Docks can now not only be left/right/center aligned, but anywhere in-between. See the new slider in zooming dock's positioning options
Brand new "Show Start Menu" functionality. Will show your existing startmenu/startpanel right next to the cursor when you click it. Add one by right clicking dock and choosing "Add -> New Start Menu Entry"
"Add" menus now significantly more useful ; they now give you the option to add a wide variety of different built-in entries
New "command entry" abilities: You can now create a dock item to toggle autohide on and off, or toggle hiding/showing the taskbar. Very useful.
New option available to turn on "proportionate stretching" for backgrounds
New mode available in plus: "keep on top, hiding off-screen for maximized applications", which makes the dock always on top except when a window is maximized, at which point it will automatically temporarily turn on autohide
Improved dock's ability to judge what maximum size it should be. Dock will now exactly fill the screen when you set it to be as large as possible, and it will properly maintain this as you add/remove items.
Brand new taskbar modes available in Plus: Your taskbar can now be set to show "all windows", "minimized windows only", or "non-minimized windows only"
Dramatically improved behavior during right click menus on zooming docks. When you right click and the dock's zooming locks in position, if you click/right-click on another item ObjectDock will now correctly select the item that your cursor was over at the time, not what i would be after the zoom lock is released. Similarly, if you begin dragging an item while locked, the program will behave appropriately instead of its prior very unpredictable behavior.
Improved handling / awareness of full-screen applications
Completely redone system tray mechanism for Plus, which is more lighweight and does not require any additional resident EXE (that�s right, sdmcp.exe will be a thing of the past ) System tray will not currently work on 64-bit versions of Windows, but they do work with Windows Vista, including the new "Special" tray icons in Vista.
Performance and memory usage has been improved. Lots of optimizing for CPU usage.
Every single 'glitchy' behavior that we/users could find in previous versions of ObjectDock has been fixed
When using extension-only in shortcuts, the item's title will now automatically update to the name of the application, not just its filename.
Ability added for ObjectDock to apply included default images for programs that do not have high-resolution icons already included with them. For example, a default Notepad shortcut on XP would use the included custom high-quality icon, but on Vista where a high-quality icon is available for Notepad, ObjectDock will use the actual Notepad icon.
Improved system tray, should now work more reliably than ever; Outlook 2007 and Windows Live Messenger should both now work reliably.
Fixed up a couple minor resource leaks
Improved taskbars / thumbnail behavior.
Added option to turn off tabbed docks' ability to automatically dock to the edge as a drawer when dragging. Option available in "misc options".
Fixed multimonitor issue with the Start Menu functionality, and added better problem-notification.
Fixed issue with flyouts where if they contained 9+ items and zooming is disabled, they could show up partially behind the dock.
UI improvments
Ability to export backgrounds added to the DockZip packaging format. Try this feature today by right clicking the dock and choosing "Pack images for sharing"
Dialog flow / layout improved for zooming docks
Colorizing a background now also colorizes the indicators you've selected to use
When packing up icons, you can now reliably drag dock items on to the "packager" dialog, and the icon associated with that item will automatically be added to the package you're creating
Improved autohide ability in general. Also, added ability for autohide to give activation back to the window that had it if an autohidden dock gets activated temporarily and then hides.
improved shortcuts so that the dock longer pauses for a moment when you run something
improved delete-item animation so that there is no longer a delay when you delete something from the dock
clicking empty space directly above/below a zooming dock that is still part of the background (e.g. a shadow) no longer causes the dock item below it to get selected. similarly, right clicking that area will bring up options for the dock itself, not the item below where you clicked.
On Vista, Taskbar should now show / be able to interact with applications ran as administrator when UAC is enabled in vista, even if ObjectDock isn't elevated. (Minimize animations will not work for programs ran as administrator however)
Fixed issue where icons for url-shortcuts would not get remembered
Can now drag/drop "Internet" and "Email" shortcuts from start panel into dock
ObjectDock is better than ever at picking up the best high-quality icon for your file, particularly in Windows Vista.
You can now zoom icons up to 256x256.