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ClearDock is a freeware haxie from Unsanity Software that removes the semi-transparent white background from the Dock in Mac OS X 10.2 “Jaguar” so the Dock icons appear to be “floating” on top of your desktop picture. Alternatively, you can specify a custom background color and opacity for both the Dock and its little application triangles ClearDock is an Application Enhancer module, which means it requires Unsanity’s freeware Application Enhancer utility in order to function. Make sure you have Application Enhancer installed before installing ClearDock. Application Enhancer can be downloaded from http://www.haxies.com/ape/. To install ClearDock, copy “ClearDock.ape” file from the mounted disk image into the “Application Enhancers” folder inside of “Library” folder in your Home folder. If an “Application Enhancers” folder does not exist, create one. If the Finder warns you about not having sufficient privileges to replace “ClearDock.ape”, then move the older file to the Trash first, then copy the new version. I already had an Application Enhancers folder, and the ClearDock functions showed up in the Application Enhancers APE Manager Preference panel after dragging in the ClearDock module From that Preference panel, you can cinfigure these controls: 
The graphic above shows various effects that can be achieved usig ClearDock. The far left image is the stock Jaguar Dock. Immediately to the right is the zero opacity ClearDock option, which is the look I personally prefer. The other three are examples of other appearances that are possible using ClearDock. The only glitch I discovered is that I couldn’t get the application triangles to change color, apparently a known bug when the Dock wasn’t positioned at the bottom, but supposedly rectified (see beow). I understand that logging out and restarting might be the key to activating this feature. I’m quite happy with black triangles for now, so I didn’t try that yet. Meanwhile, I’m delighted with the clear, floating Dock icons effect. Thanks to the foks at Insanity for making this haxie available. New in Version 1.2.3 New in Version 1.2.2 System requirements: How do I get rid of stubborn Trash item? From John Dennis I know their used to be a way to delete things in the trash can that gave errors in OS 9. How do I go about this in OS 10.2.5. I have this file in the trash can and all it is a folder. I have tried Trash It with no success. It says it was deleted, but it is still in my trash can. It is for the Epson printer that I do not have. It continues to say it is in use even though I do not have this printer. I think it is because I slimmed down my install and when it moved this to the previous system folder and I tried to delete it I do not think that it could find a replacement so it is not letting me delete it. I have gone so far to change the privileges of each folder so I can do what I want to them. I have done this to 5 folders all buried with in each other. I am not sure what I need to do to get rid of this. Maybe the file is hidden and I need to unhide it so I can delete it. I am not sure so if you or your readers have a way to do this it would be greatly appreciated. Hi John; I had that problem a while back when I attempted to delete an expired piece of beta software (an old AppleWorks beta to be specific) from my hard drive, and kept getting (“xxx is locked”) messages when I tried to empty the Trash. Upon opening the Show Info windows, I determined that the lock boxes were in fact not checked, but OS X did not agree. With OS 9, holding down the Option key and selecting Empty Trash would override the locked file roadblock, but I discovered that this doesn’t work in OS X. A bit of research revealed that OS X is not supposed to allow you to put locked items into the Trash in the first place, so my AppleWorks beta problem was even more of an anomaly. One workaround for emptying locked items (however they may have gotten there) from the Trash is to press Option, then click and hold on the Trash icon. An Empty Trash contextualized dialog will appear, which, when clicked will delete the locked item. Worked for me in this case. Another empty the Trash trick that’s new in OS X is that you can empty the Trash under normal circumstances by pressing Shift + Command + Delete -- A simple addition of Shift to the familiar Command + Delete shortcut for sending selected items to the Trash. If none of this works, and you can drag the folder back out of the Trash, do so, boot into OS 9, and trash it from there. I’ve never found that to fail yet. Another good reason to keep OS 9 around. Charles
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