I discover this application from a best friend of mine. The ObjectDock application has the similarity of Windows Taskbar’s Quick Launch function. But the ObjectDock has a better appearances and effects that you can modify.

To make it simple, ObjectDock is a program that enables you to organize your shortcuts, programs and running tasks into an attractive and fun animated Dock.

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Some of the Features:

* Easy to use shortcut organizer
* Simple drag & drop operation
* Convenient autohide and “keep in background” modes
* Fully customizable - tons of backgrounds and images freely available
* Low system resource usage
* Smooth animations
* Designed to run smoothly even on older computers
* Weather flyout showing your current conditions & 5-day forecast
* The universal standard for Docklet extensions
* Consistent updates - will continue to be updated and improved for years and years to come
* Running programs show up on dock, can minimize to it
* Super-smooth minimize animations in Vista
* Many languages supported, unicode compliant

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System Requirements:

* Windows Vista/XP/2003/2000 (32-bit)
20MB free drive space
256MB RAM
* Languages supported:
English, French, German, Italian, Polski, Russian, Spanish, Serbian (srpski) Note: The interface has been localized for these languages, but the documentation and help (where available) will be in English.

ObjectDock is available in 2 versions:

ObjectDock-ObjectDock is absolutely free to use and will never nag you to upgrade with popups or interruptions. No arbitrary limitations or hassles that free programs with ‘enhanced versions available’ often have.

ObjectDock Plus-ObjectDock Plus is available for $19.95, and touts unique and extremely useful features not available anywhere else. “Plus” is exactly what it sounds like - all the functionality and style that the free ObjectDock offers, ‘Plus’ a lot more.

Below is a comparison table for ObjectDock and ObjectDock Plus:

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I’ve downloaded the free version of ObjectDock and installed into my computer. The installation was quick and easy. I’ve play around with it for a while. The customization is very simple too. You can either customize using the default built-in add/remove docklets function

or you can simply just drag and drop the docklets to add/remove. You can also position the customized ObjectDock to the edge of the computer screen(top, bottom, left or right). I have a lot of fun customizing my desktop and this will definitely help me to access my desired menu faster.

These are the early versions of my customized ObjectDock looks like when displaying on my desktop screen.

My Desktop-right positioned ObjectDock

My Desktop-bottom positioned ObjectDock

p/s: Just to clarify that my system is actually running on Windows XP sp2. I’ve have customized my computer wallpaper, my taskbar, my desktop theme and appearance to Windows Vista. This has nothing to do with any of ObjectDock features.

To download the free version of ObjectDock, click here
To learn more about ObjectDock, click here

You may visit Stardock website for other cool products and downloads.

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I was playing with google pagerank today and try checking my blog’s pagerank (and a few others as well).

This is just for fun. Here are the results~~

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I’m not sad that I have pagerank 0. I believe it takes hard work to achieve good pagerank. All the above checks are for fun only, but I was curious about the last result. All I can say is……

GOOGLE ALMIGHTY!!!
~~perfect 10~~

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I just love this picture! It was forwarded to me.

By the way, Happy Sunday everyone! Enjoy the weekend~~~

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*this giant poem frame is hanged at my gf’s house*

This is indeed a great chinese poem. I took this picture as it means a lot. It tells and teaches us the philosophy of our human life

I’m sorry that there’s no translation as I’m not good in translating.

Can anyone with good translation help me here?

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I managed to capture this picture when I visited my gf at her house last weekend. Guess what, it’s a floating rock.

She collected the rock during her last trip to Japan. You can read about her Japan trip post here. This is a real rock where she picked it from a volcanic mountain in Japan. Due to the very hot temperature around the volcanic area, the rocks was ‘digested’ and became ‘weightless’ (Sorry, I can’t think of the correct word to describe).

When I hold the rock on my palm, I can’t feel any weight. It doesn’t feel like a rock at all. It simply amazing to know what mother nature can do. With a little strength added, the rock smashed!!

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