By the Quayside, Buy the Quay

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:45:27 +0000

My friend Rainer Brockerhoff is back with the latest version of his Quay utility timed to coincide with the 10.5.2 release of MacOSX Leopard.

What's amazing to me is that this is actually the third incarnation of Quay in almost as many months. Rainer's good enough (and confident enough) that he is not afraid to start from scratch if he sees a much better way of doing things. Quay is designed to work well, yet be unobtrusive.

I haven't been of much help to him testing Quay because I never really used the Dock (my Dock is auto-hidden) in Tiger always preferring Quicksilver. So I didn't miss anything about the existing Dock functionality when Leopard. I tried the previous version of Quay but... well I just reach for the Dock very often.

But from the screenshots I think the new version of Quay looks very stylish. If you do use the Dock a lot and, especially, if you found the changes in Leopard less than a perfect trade-off, I think you might want to check Quay out when he releases 1.1.

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By the Quayside, Buy the Quay