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DESCRIPTION

Quay extends the Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) 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!

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.1
  • Dragging out a plain folder from the Quay window now keeps the folder icon.
  • The Dock's selected icon name display is now suppressed correctly in all cases. I think.
  • The background application no longer loads Contextual Menu Plugins (which it never used, anyway).
  • Works around a Leopard bug which would mess up the menu location after unplugging the monitor the menu bar was on.
  • The icon for plain folders dragged out of the Quay window is again a folder icon.
  • Fixed small errors in the French localization.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later, 10.5.2 recommended.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Rainer Brockerhoff
Downloads:3,989
  - Version d/l:288
Utilities:System
License:Shareware
Date:08 May 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$10.00
RATING
*****
Quay User Reviews (23 posts)Write A Review
May 10 2008

RAINER BROCKERHOFF  Veuillez retélécharger cette version, nous avons découvert quelques erreurs dans le texte français. Toutes nos excuses.  (Version 1.1)

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May 9 2008
*****

LORIN RIVERS  Quay keeps getting better and better. It's one of the best investments in software I have ever made!

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!  (Version 1.1)

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Mar 4 2008

RAINER BROCKERHOFF  I found an issue on some Intel Macs with 1.1b3 (249) where the "Average CPU %" value in the application popup was completely wrong. It's fixed now, and because it's such a small change I preferred not to bump the beta number, but just incremented the build number. The new version is 1.1b3 (250).

So if you're affected by this, please download again and reinstall. My apologies for this slip-up.  (Version 1.1b3)

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Feb 17 2008
*****

DTRUETT1  I experienced some problems that made 1.1b1 unusable. With 1.1b2, everything works perfectly.

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!  (Version 1.1b2)

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