![]() ![]() If it’s a writing app then you might see a shrunken preview of the documents currently open in it. When you go to click on an app, though, you can hover for a moment and get a preview of it. It would be good if you could use those arrow keys to move along uBar’s version of the Dock but you can’t. Rather than finding System Preferences and then searching for what you need, this lets you get to, say, the Dock preferences with one tap and a few presses of your arrow keys. Much faster and to our mind far more convenient is the quick access to each individual part of System Preferences. You can, though, tap a letter when you’re scrolling and it will leap to the apps beginning with that. This makes uBar’s list of them take an age to scroll down. ![]() Your mileage will vary there, with any luck, because as well as a lot of Dock items we do rather hoard apps. Plus it’s a fairly quick route to your applications. It’s got quick access to your documents, music and more. When youve by no means actually favored the Dock, or have a soft-spot for the Home windows. The uBar icon displays a popup menu with options for system sleep or shut down. When you press that key, you are also transported to Windows-land but with a bit of class and style. Then at the top there is uBar when it’s only showing app icons. In the middle is uBar showing names alongside every app. By comparison, uBar gives us at least all the same functionality but does so in just under half the space.Ĭompare and contrast. Our 48 items stretch across the full width of our 27-inch iMac screen. Or rather it is when you replace your regular Dock with uBar 4. That brings us down to 48 items in the Dock and that’s far more sensible. That document can go and it might as well be followed by iBooks as we always read those on our iPad. ![]() Activity Mode: hold Ctrl key to show Application CPU and Memory usage. Favourites area (including Show Desktop) Expands up to 5 rows (by dragging the edge) Customizable uBar menu. Truly, looking at it for you now, we can see instantly where we should cut back. Boost your productivity with the most advanced and versatile app and window manager for the Mac. The FileMaker Pro app is of course in our Dock. For instance, it’s a mystery why we have that FileMaker Pro document when every single day we forget it’s there and instead open the FileMaker app. UBar 4: Not a Fan of the Mac Dock Engineers at Google, Facebook & LinkedIn Opt for This Upgraded Mac Toolbar Just 14. Often, down the road, we’ve forgotten the reason. However, everything else is an app we have chosen to add there. It also includes one document, a FileMaker Pro database that we use daily. That does include the Trash, the Finder, Siri and the App Store. Version 3 is available at - It is a 4 week trial and costs 20 to purchase. Currently our regular macOS Dock holds 50 items. uBar is the dock replacement for the Mac. Yet tidying up is foolish talk and especially so when instead you can use uBar 4.0.7 to remove or at least postpone having to do anything. Of course there is always the option to remove applications from it and, true, there are apps in our Dock that we haven’t opened in months. We were only saying the other day that our Docks are getting a bit full. ![]()
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