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Mar 21 2007

FoggyNoggin releases freeware Dock icon removal tool– Dock Dodger

August Trometer, software developer over at FoggyNoggin Software, released Dock Dodger 0.1 yesterday. What this little freeware app does is a little dark and a little mysterious: it allows you to drag an application’s icon from the Finder into the Dock Dodger window and then, the next time you launch that application, its icon will not appear in the Dock.

As we all know, the Dock can quickly get cluttered with icons. There are the applications we’re running, the ones we use often and even files and shortcuts–the Dock is at once handy and horrendous. August developed Dock Dodger partially at my request. And while neither one of us expects everyone to rid their Dock of every running application’s icon, there are some applications that just need to run in the background and never need to be accessed. So, why should their icon take up real estate in the Dock?

Even though Dock Dodger 0.1 is totally free and, thus, you don’t actually buy it, August has posted a little “Caveat Emptor” on the application’s product page that you should peruse before using the software.
Note:The same internal switch that disables an application’s Dock icon also removes the app from the “Force Quit” menu and exempts it from Application Switching (Command-Tabbing). If you do need to quit the Dock Dodged application and cannot access it by clicking a window or palette from that application, you must use the Activity Monitor to get it to quit.

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