RocketDock website http://rocketdock.com/ Punk Labs website http://punklabs.com/ Addons, skins, icons, etc. http://rocketdock.com/addons/all/popular/ RocketDock - (The single greatest piece of software. Ever.) RocketDock is an application launcher made by Zachary Denton and Punk Labs for Windows that provides a dock similar to that of the Mac OS X Aqua GUI. It is freely available under a Creative Commons license and is distributed by Punk Labs (previously called Punk Software). RocketDock is able to show live updates of minimized windows as in Mac OS X, and in Windows Vista it can show live thumbnail updates on the taskbar. It is compatible with MobyDock, ObjectDock, RK Launcher, and Y'z Dock skins, and is compatible with and borrows from Stardock ObjectDock's publicly published Docklet API. Dock (computing) A dock is a user interface feature of a number of operating systems that typically provides a user with a way of launching and switching between applications. Early implementations of the dock concept include the icon bar in Acorn Computers's Arthur operating system (which led to the RISC OS) and the dock in the NEXTSTEP operating system (which lead to Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X). Other dock implementation are included in Apple's Newton OS and iPhone OS and a variety of third party applications that add dock features to operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and Linux, though Mac OS X's has been the most commercially successful. The patent on Apple's implementation was applied for in 1999, the year before the new Mac OS X interface was first publicly demonstrated, and granted in October 2008.