Tommy Collison

I don’t know why I’m talking about my small dock, but I am. I guess it’s always made me feel different and ostracized from everyone else.

Jokes aside, let’s take a tour of Tommy’s dock:

okay, that was the last one

Finder is of course mandatory, but I’ll rarely go into it. I don’t keep documents in the proper folder (something I probably should do) so everything resides on the desktop. I find everything through Spotlight, anyway.

Adium is my MSN/AIM client, but I’m disliking it more and more each day. I wish everyone used AIM so I could just use iChat all the time. I did have a complicated hack working on the previous MacBook where I routed my MSN through Jabber so I could use MSN through iChat but the server in New Zealand went down, so I can’t do it again on the Air. ‘Twas very unstable when it did work so I’m not sure I miss it.

NetNewsWire is where I stalk my favourite blogs. I’d add about 3 new blogs per day and I’m currently subscribed to 96 blogs. Who wants to be number 100? :) I also use the iPhone client which syncs wonderfully with the desktop NNW. However, the new update (with added Google Reader goodness) has me confused – it loads all my subscriptions but doesn’t mark them as read in the desktop app once I’m done. Mucho annoying.

Safari 4 is my primary browser, except when it’s acting up, at which point I bring Firefox in. For some reason, one always works when the other fails. Good work, team.

People who use a different music app to iTunes astound me. In my experience, Apple’s own app for the job will always outweigh any 3rd party job someone does. (*cough* Adium vs. iChat for example). I would suppose I have to use it what with the managing of iPhone apps and the iPhone itself.

Last.fm is monitoring what I listen to in iTunes, which isn’t as Big Brother as it sounds. It stores what I listen to and puts some nice info on my profile. If you’re on Last.fm, do hook up with me and laugh at my having the music compatibility of a drunken hippo. Or something..

I’ve been using email for 6 years now, but only started using Mail.app this summer. I never really got it set up until I got a friend to give me a hand with it. Woot!

Tweetie is my primary Twitter client for reading Twitter, but I find myself on the web interface when I need to browse profiles for some reason. Maybe it’s because I used the web for so long. Maybe..

One thing I never understood was how people can have 20+ apps in their dock. The majority of the apps in mine are open all the time. I would use iMovie whenever I make a drumming video, which is once a month, or iPhoto only when I plug my phone in. Why should they be in my dock when I never use them?

Am I alone? Or are there other dock minimalists in the audience?