A-Dock is an application switcher palette that helps you get prepared for Mac OS X's dock.
As a picture is worth a thousand words, here is what A-Dock looks like :
Basics
When A-Dock is running, it shows a floating palette at the bottom of your screen (its default location). The palette lists which applications are running to easily switch between them. It also shows a trash icon that behaves exactly like the Finder's one. And you can add your favorite applications, folders or documents to open them quickly and easily.
Features
Following is a list of A-Dock's features. This list is not exhaustive. To learn more, please go to the section “Using A-Dock”.
You can minimized A-Dock to just a small bar to save space on your screen. This bar auto-pops out when you move the mouse inside and minimizes again when you move the mouse outside. But of course if you have a big screen, you can leave it opened....
A-Dock is stuck to the screen edges. Switching your monitor resolution will not move the dock to a place you don't want like the App Switcher does everytime I play Quake 2. The dock can be positionned everywhere on the sceen edges. Just grab it and drag it !!
To add you favorite applications, just drag them to A-Dock and hold the shift key :
A-Dock lets you open files by dragging them onto the icon of the application you want :
A-Dock lets you quit/hide applications with contextual menus :
If you use a custom theme or Kaleidoscope scheme, A-Dock will use it for its appearance (here the Drawing Board theme)...
Or you can use a skin (here the QuickTime 4 skin) :
A-Dock is multi-users savvy : every user has its own preferences.... and skin.