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Show Me Your Dock Series! Part 24

Sarah Whinnem is a graphic designer who is job searching at the moment, and working freelance in the meantime. Sarah’s experience is as an in-house print designer, so she naturally likes to work on web projects in her spare time. It’s also been said she makes an excellent margarita!

I asked if she would give us the lowdown on the applications she relies upon as a designer and blogger on a daily basis.

The Intro…

I’m on a 24″ iMac the majority of the time, and still have an iBook that I use when I’m bored with my desk. Or when it’s nice out. I was surprised to notice that I don’t keep a lot of items in my dock. I tend to use a lot of utilities that are menubar-only, like Evernote and Dropbox. My dock tends to be reserved for apps that I am not running constantly and are quit and launched often.

The Dock…

• Finder – To, um, find things. I rarely actually use the icon.
• Dashboard – I don’t actually use the icon for this either. Why is it taking space in my dock?
• Terminal – For my occasional whois searches and the rare occasion I need to do something CL-style.
• DEVONthink – iTunes for normal files- keeps everything organized and searchable in a database. I use it mainly for financials.
• iCal – To keep track of my schedule- otherwise I’d never remember anything.
• Tweetie – My Twitter client of choice. I’ve used many but none are quite as slick.
• Skype – For video/audio chat
• Adium – With a custom dock icon- for AIM chat.
• Mail – My favorite mail client. Used in conjunction with Google Apps.
• Safari – Browser of choice. I actually prefer Safari’s Inspector to many FireFox tools.
• NewsFire – RSS reader- to keep up with feeds from my favorite sites.
• iTunes – For my tunes- used in conjunction with CoverSutra to post to Last.fm.
• EyeTV – TV Tuner. I use my iMac as my TV, this connects my TiVo.
• iPhoto – To keep track of my 80 bajillion photos.
• Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign – Design tools of the trade. Others are used sporadically, but these see most of the action to sit in my dock
• Textmate – For plain text editing and development
• CSS Edit – My favorite CSS editor- makes styling so much easier.
• Toast – When I need to do more advanced things than just burn files. Also lets me burn my TiVo programs to DVD.
• Time Machine – Backing up and whatnot.
• System Preferences – For my occasional system tweaks.
• Freelance Stack – Stack of all my freelance project files.
• Downloads Stack – Stack of my downloaded files.
• Documents Stack – Stack of all my miscellaneous documents.
• Trash – I should empty this more often.

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A huge thanks to Sarah for taking time out to take part in the Dock Series.

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• Email it along with the necessary images to: hi [at] gracesmith.co.uk.

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Related posts:

1. Show Me Your Dock Series! Part 14
2. Show Me Your Dock Series! Part 12
3. Show Me Your Dock Series! Part 20

Grace Smith is owner of the small but perfectly formed web design studio Postscript5, in Northern Ireland. To keep up to date with the latest designalicious content, then please consider subscribing.