The idea of TabLauncher is not to replace the system's dock, but to help keeping it clean, with only the applications that are currently running.
By removing all the application from the dock, and organizing them on tabs, you can quickly find and run any application you want.
Apart from that, you can create as many tabs as you like, and personalize them by setting the background color, title color and font.Just drag your favorite applications to your tabs, and it's done!You can also rearrange the tabs by dragging them.And even rearrange the hole TabLauncher. Just drag
Saw the disconnect when the AppStore did not tell me a coupla' months back about it becoming only Lion ready, thus non-functional, and going back to the developer to re-release an image copy of the older version, to give me back that functionality. Hmm, perhaps-- "Intel, OS 10.6+...
I had tried out the previous "free" version. I decided I want to buy this. But the App Store won't let me download any new versions. It just says "Installed" and does nothing. I've trashed the program and its preference file. Still no luck. Anyone have any suggestions on how I should proceed? (Yes, I'm contacting the developer; but one of you might be able to help faster.) Thanks in advance.
The app store upgrade requires you to quit the app. There is no obvious way to do this, short of deselecting launch on login in preferences and then rebooting the computer. Meanwhile you have to work out a way to exit the app store in mid-process... what a cock-up.
Ah, but what if you've deselected the menu bar item so as not to clutter up your menu bar? The quit option should be present in the preferences, as it is in most applications I believe.
Activity Monitor will work, but I agree with Miklic. Why not just have a "quit" option when you right-click in one of the tabs, or at least have this option appear if you opt to deselect the menu bar item? Why not allow for at least a dock icon where you can select quit? Don't get me wrong, this is a nice program; but this option would be helpful.
This is a great launcher utility.
Has much of the functionality of Drag Thing only it’s free. Very easy to use and extremely versatile.
Give it a try, you’ll like it.
One suggestion: Ability to change the size of the dock.
Perhaps it was free on 14 Jun when you reviewed it but it's now 99¢.
I have DragThing and use it for its Disk dock and Processes dock but I never really liked it as an app launcher. Tab Launcher just might be a good Dock replacement/supplement for me. I'll buy it and check it out; the price is okay.
Works much better than DockFun, which I used for a couple of years, because no one else had theirs' work as well...then they stopped developing. TabLauncer re-accomplished that functionality.
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The idea of TabLauncher is not to replace the system's dock, but to help keeping it clean, with only the applications that are currently running.
By removing all the application from the dock, and organizing them on tabs, you can quickly find and run any application you want.
Apart from that, you can create as many tabs as you like, and personalize them by setting the background color, title color and font.Just drag your favorite applications to your tabs, and it's done!You can also rearrange the tabs by dragging them.And even rearrange the hole TabLauncher. Just drag it to where ever you like along the sides or the bottom of the screen.
Now it takes less than 2 seconds to find and launch any app.(It's true, according to our statistics)
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If using Lion 10.7, I don't know, just finally installed Lion @ 10.7.3 two day ago.
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Mikilc reviewed on 19 Jun 2011
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Sgginc reviewed on 14 Jun 2011
Has much of the functionality of Drag Thing only it’s free. Very easy to use and extremely versatile.
Give it a try, you’ll like it.
One suggestion: Ability to change the size of the dock.
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I have DragThing and use it for its Disk dock and Processes dock but I never really liked it as an app launcher. Tab Launcher just might be a good Dock replacement/supplement for me. I'll buy it and check it out; the price is okay.
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A buck is a buck but why spend a buck if it's not going to do what i need ?
No trial version equals no purchase.
Works much better than DockFun, which I used for a couple of years, because no one else had theirs' work as well...then they stopped developing. TabLauncer re-accomplished that functionality.
Zar rated on 07 Jul 2011