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Quay extends the Mac OS X Dock to show extended popup menus for most Dock items, including applications, stacks and URLs. Quay also allows you to make folder proxy icons with easily customized icons.
So why should you use Quay at all? Extra information, more flexibility. For one, the Dock's popups are limited to about 500 items; Quay's limit is in the tens of thousands. You can have a Quay popup on both sides of the Dock; Apple has them only on the document side. The Dock doesn't follow aliases/symbolic links in its menus; Quay does. It works for Smart Folders, also shows application
So why should you use Quay at all? Extra information, more flexibility. For one, the Dock's popups are limited to about 500 items; Quay's limit is in the tens of thousands. You can have a Quay popup on both sides of the Dock; Apple has them only on the document side. The Dock doesn't follow aliases/symbolic links in its menus; Quay does. It works for Smart Folders, also shows application
What's New
Version 1.1.3:
- Quay is now compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
- Support for 10.5 (Leopard) and PowerPC has been dropped in this version. Download version 1.1.2 from the product pages for these cases.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
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Quay extends the Mac OS X Dock to show extended popup menus for most Dock items, including applications, stacks and URLs. Quay also allows you to make folder proxy icons with easily customized icons.
So why should you use Quay at all? Extra information, more flexibility. For one, the Dock's popups are limited to about 500 items; Quay's limit is in the tens of thousands. You can have a Quay popup on both sides of the Dock; Apple has them only on the document side. The Dock doesn't follow aliases/symbolic links in its menus; Quay does. It works for Smart Folders, also shows application versions and (for running applications) CPU and memory statistics. Still, if for some reason you want the Dock's normal display, just hold the Option key down before clicking.
Quay is a simple-to-use Cocoa application. You can run it just to configure a popup item in the Dock, but it works automatically with your existing stacks; the actual popup is handled by a background process that uses few system resources. The Dock icons can be customized for better recognition (and put on both sides of the Dock).
Quay does no magic. It doesn't hack the Dock in any way, and calls no private system interfaces.
There is no trial period, but only the first Quay item on each side of the Dock will work until you register. Application popups are a free bonus!
So why should you use Quay at all? Extra information, more flexibility. For one, the Dock's popups are limited to about 500 items; Quay's limit is in the tens of thousands. You can have a Quay popup on both sides of the Dock; Apple has them only on the document side. The Dock doesn't follow aliases/symbolic links in its menus; Quay does. It works for Smart Folders, also shows application versions and (for running applications) CPU and memory statistics. Still, if for some reason you want the Dock's normal display, just hold the Option key down before clicking.
Quay is a simple-to-use Cocoa application. You can run it just to configure a popup item in the Dock, but it works automatically with your existing stacks; the actual popup is handled by a background process that uses few system resources. The Dock icons can be customized for better recognition (and put on both sides of the Dock).
Quay does no magic. It doesn't hack the Dock in any way, and calls no private system interfaces.
There is no trial period, but only the first Quay item on each side of the Dock will work until you register. Application popups are a free bonus!
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Fishscale reviewed on 14 May 2010
Excellent app, a must on every computer I use.
Also note, when snow leopard came out not many dev's could deal with the new dock code changes and within days dev Brock Rainer had Quay updated and working perfectly.
Again, if you use the dock, you need Quay.
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This new build fixes the timeout bug that was disabling the QuayMenu background process on Snow Leopard after a certain click pattern. Also, stacking screens vertically now works if menu bar and Dock are on different screens. All users should update.
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Lorin-Rivers reviewed on 09 May 2008
Take the time to read the release notes if you're an existing user, I just spotted the cmd-option-click on running app in the dock to get process details feature, which is pretty cool.
Keep up the good work!
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So if you're affected by this, please download again and reinstall. My apologies for this slip-up.
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dtruett1 reviewed on 17 Feb 2008
Not only does Quay give you the old hierarchical menus, the choice of how to sort, and restores the Command-Click>shows the folder in Finder, but it also allows me to put my customized folders in the Dock. I created folders in Tiger using a metal folder and FolderBrander or CanCombine Icons for quick identification. Now the dock functions even better than it did in Tiger.
I would buy this at 3 times the price!
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Lorin-Rivers reviewed on 07 Feb 2008
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Thank you sooo much!
$$$ Sent!!
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Do NOT install this! After uninstalling, I am still having apps not launch correctly!!
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Quay uninstalled & log out and in: Apps Launching with GUI again.
calee rated on 03 May 2011