Aqua Dock VS ObjectDock

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Aqua Dock is a superior program for three main reasons:

1 - You can not only add .png and .ico and any of the same things ObjectDock can add, but you can also import old YZ Docklets to your bar also.

2 - Aqua Dock does not use GDI, but rather DirectX which is seamless with Microsoft, and therefore Aqua Dock is flawlessly smooth and crystal clear. Object dock will become grainy if you wich to zoom in more, and will hang for a second when moving the mouse fast along the bar. Object Desktop will also sometimes use 99% of your proccessor, while Aqua Dock uses 5% at it's most busy moment

3 - Aqua Dock is not only more user-friendly with the interface setup, but was made 2 years ago, and has been perfected with the new 1.0 release march 24, 2004. You can see screenshots and download it here > http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/13/9/13-9-204.shtml

Enjoy!
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
So you come to the site that hosts OD icons and skins and the site that is maintained by the good peoples that made OD and you promote something else? Not wise.

I have tried Aqua dock... don't like it at all.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
why do I get the feeling you registered at this site for the express purpose of promoting your software?
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oh, it's a free world....we [Wincustomize.com] are happy for people to discuss alternatives...provided accuracy in the telling is not the first casualty.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
'cause its probably true.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I joined this site summer of last year...get a life. And second, I didnt make Aqua Dock so it isn't my software. Third, wincustomize.com isnt owner nor affiliated with Stardock the makers of OD, so I dont know what you mean about the "good people" but the fact is, in many other review also, that the performance, look, and functaionlity of Aqua Dock beats OD...besides isn't the goal of this site to promote new programs that "customize" your windows OS? I think so
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
i dun mind alternatives but to start your pitch by bashing the hosting sites soft ware is bad buisness practice.... no valid point just "ur stuff sux try mine " kinda post ..
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The interesting issue is that YZDock was served with a 'cease and desist' from Apple...as I recall...and this proggy uses the same 'objects'...ergo is little different [if at all] to that which has already raised Apple's Ire.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Third, wincustomize.com isnt owner nor affiliated with Stardock the makers of OD, so I dont know what you mean about the "good people"



um ... NM im not going there ....

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Dude...this site does not make the OD software! lol...Stardock make the software, not this site. This site jus thosts peer interaction for sharing mods for Stardock's and other companies' programs. Wincustomize.com doesn't "make" any of this software that we share
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Third, wincustomize.com isnt owner nor affiliated with Stardock the makers of OD

In a word.....

Wrong....

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
WinCustomize is OWNED by Stardock!
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
besides isn't the goal of this site to promote new programs that "customize" your windows OS?




yes but not by bashing other software .. your first few posts made no valid points .. just bashed OD and stardock....
we like facts and details not attacks ..
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top


so who cares about Apple? lol...Apple is proprietary, and as long as disallows daughter companies to make it's hardware and computer architechture, then it deserves to be ripped off, and open sourced
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
first of all, I wasn't attacking you(though you have jumped right in and attacked me.) second of all, wc is affiliated with stardock. and third of all, it is fine to debate, but it is in poor taste to trash another's work where that work is posted, and call it a debate. and as an end thought, yes skinning is promoted here and is the whole point of the site, that doesn't however give you the right to make derogatory comments about the software that is posted here.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
what? no valid points? I gave you three main reasons why OD doesn't work as well as Aqua Dock. read my post again. ther was no bashing, just facts on how the program works
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
dude any body whos been here knows this site is paid for mainly by stardock ....
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
why all of the sudden when all i say is "Aqua Dock is better than ObjectDock" make you think that I am "bashing" anyone? I just stated why I think AD is better and I backed it up with fact. I never said OD was a "bad" program
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top

so who cares about Apple? lol...Apple is proprietary, and as long as disallows daughter companies to make it's hardware and computer architechture, then it deserves to be ripped off, and open sourced

Proprietary Copyrights are defended and respected here.

It is considered good practise to be sympathetic to this view.

Those who promote an alternative ideology will be shown the door.

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
AquaDock is handsdown better than this application. Object dock is jumpy and grainy when changing magnifications. I hate Object dock...it is just another program produced by an already established company that thinks they can get away with crappy programming like this...why do you think they made it freeware? they know it is too crappy to sell alone



u forget this post ?

Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm gonna say twenty minutes til this thread is locked, or he is exiled, or both.

/me starts timer
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
oh my gosh Jafo...we can get into that discussion if you want, about how if we didnt have that kind proprietary stuff that we would be about 20 years ahead of where we are now with computer technology, but we won't get into it, because the bottom line is that proprietary companies just want money...it boils down to that simple statement. If you want a mac you PAY Apple. if you want a PC you pay whoever you want. Why do you think business and 99% of the companies in the world use PCs? More support, more felxibility, and you wouldnt be on this site if you used a Mac
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
no, i didnt forget that post...i stated a fact that it isnt good enough to be charged for. bashing would be saying something like "OD sucks, dont use it, it is horrible!!!" but i didnt...in all my posts i have said "use whatever you want" or "they are both free, try them both" something to that extent
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just tried Aqua Dock. Except for a few different things it looks excactly like Yz Dock...no wonder why it can use Yz Docklets...seems like someone's kept programming where Y'z left off. Just my immediate thought, I could be wrong. It could be a dock immitating Yz, that imitated the one in OSX.

But no it doesn't run smoother. When I point my cursor over an icon and move the cursor away I'd expect the icon to down again in the dock, but it doesn't it just hangs there

Nothing I'd waste another minute with.
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top


the difference between people in real life, and people on the internet is that people on the internet seem to be looking for a reason to get pissed off about something, when in fact all that happened here was that I introduced a new program and everyone went haywire...that is immature and ridiculous
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
crappy programming like this