Ask Mac Users: What Do You Keep In Your Dock?

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I had a breakthrough over the weekend when I realized that most of the apps I have been keeping in my Dock are useless, or that I open them up using spotlight more often than not. I am just curious to know, what do you find essential for the dock?

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Most of the time I open up things with quicksilver. The few that I don't are firefox, xcode, cyberduck, and terminal.

I also rarely use my dock, and use Launchbar to get apps runnin.

Here's a typical day for my dock: http://www.grabup.com/uploads/c712431bcfb2b9658fe44b5062ff60...

Why do you use Quicksilver over Spotlight?

Quicksilver responds much faster than Spotlight does, even when Spotlight has "indexed" the disk. I only use Quicksilver for launching applications (i.e. I don't do anything even slightly advanced with it) but it's still satisfying because Quicksilver will find the app as I type it, whereas Spotlight will think for a few seconds.

Quicksilver allows you want to do something other than find and open a file. Though if that is all you want to do quicksilver opens as a default action.

Coming from a linux background I like to automate/do things faster whenever I can so quicksilver is just one way to do that.

activity monitor, X11 and firefox. The first thing I do when I get a new mac (or account on someone elses machine) is move the dock to the right side and rip everything off of it.

nothing. just running application. i use quicksilver to open everything. if i could make the dock go away and get the trash on the desktop and not lose expose, i would.

Quicksilver, iCal, Thunderbird, Adium, iTunes and OmniFocus.

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