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hey everybody and welcome to another HD tutorial and this video I'll be walking you through the entire basically rocketdock interface now I've already done a video about how to acquire the rocket dock software you can probably just click on the name or I'll try to put that in the description somehow but forgive me if it's not there so basically what we're going to do here is go over rocketdock if you want to see what to my doc you can look here now we have our internet browsers and our internet related things we have 0 n downloader and ccleaner then we have our microsoft office documents and as well as photoshop then we have our communications section which includes email Skype you cam which is a webcam software in Google Earth and Bluetooth now we have a few tools which I have camstudio the Camtasia software the windows 7 calculator notepad little OCR which is basically my scanner converting that to text etc the sage Dictionary here's my media section you can see I have separators in between sections we have Windows Media Center itunes windows media player and the Rhapsody for my phone and then we have the stuff that came with it by standard and also added a downloads section slay on my computer network documents music pictures who's the standard stuff and I put utorrent all the way in the right hand side with the recycling bin and duck settings now doc settings is the most important thing basically in the whole software section of the rocket dog so we're going to go over here let's start with the general tab is this is all the languages that you can choose to have your doc in your language in I'm not going to change anything with that because I speak English so you can never run at startup I have lift that check which means the doc will automatically come up at your startup store settings in a portable I and I that's just basically if you want someone else to log on to your computer then their rocket dock would speed the standard one but yours when you logged on would have all your icons minimize windows to the doc now if I take that and I hit okay I just have to show you what that looks like five a notepad document over here and I minimize it you'll see it swipes in and there is my notepad document i click it and it kind of drags out and again minimize it has a little animation that you can disable if it gets a nine but that's basically what minimize windows to doc means and if you do have one disaster then you will get the live previews so you have a youtube youtube thing running then that will work however i have disabled that so they minimize the track is actually like the way they work here in windows vista so next we have a running application instance or indicators so i have a firefox preloader right now so right now there's a little black arrow above it you can see and that is what the open application instance or indicator actually means so i have skype on right now i should put that as do not disturb i have skype running right now i have my email client as well as the screen recorder etc so that is what that means i'm open learning application instance means that if i already have a notepad document open and i go up a hair and hit the notepad button it will bring up the one that is already open so that's pretty cool and lock items is basically so i can't accidentally drag one out and delete it you can usually just right click on the dock and hit unlock items and then that will simply unlike all the items and you can drag them around change the order change the icon itself etc let's go to icons right now i have it on high quality because of my computers I mean the computer i'm writing this alone is a pretty intense gaming machine it's a laptop but it's very good so often on high quality just to get the best quality out of my my icons i left them on a hundred percent opacity now what this means you see the doc above here this means that whenever i I'm looking at them they have full opacity or completely opaque over my desktop but if I ordered lower the opacity you see they get a little transparent but I've checked the box that says zoom opaque so when I actually mouse over it the one that I'm mousing over is no longer transparent opaque again so that's pretty cool that I can do that but I leave them all pretty much on full opacity so I can see them wherever I want the size is basically the size of the icons very very self intuitive they're on now there's to hover effects there's a bubble which you see when I go over these there is a plateau which kind of just spreads them out more and doesn't go up and down vertically as much and then there is zoom flat which is completely go sideways and you can move the entire rocketalk like this I think this is the coolest way but I really don't need it to expand that much so I don't use that so I leave it at zoom bubble you can also have no zoom which is also that actually works in Mac OS and you just have the names pop up if you're tired of those animations so I've left it on zoom bubble next we have the actual amount that it does zoom in a zoom would that's pretty much self-explanatory if you want to zoom to be humongous say I go from 15 to 228 look it just gets ginormous and you can see that higher quality of the icons when I actually do that like that's a not very good icon that's very pixelated but that's a really high quality icon right there so it's pretty good I leave this down closer to about 20 years now I live it to closer to about 15 pixels which is what I had before so now let's go to position this is where it gets kind of interesting a lot of people like to put their rocket dock down oh you can also choose one monitor it's on I have unplugged the other monitors so my laptop's only got one minor hooked up you can choose the screen position to be on the bottom ok so it'll be all going on the bottom of your screen almost exactly like mackel is 10 obviously you'll want to have some edge offset so it's not on top of your toolbar but a lot of people that I know actually unlock this task bar and drag it to the top so they have their task bar on top and they have their rocket dog on the bottom ok and that's giving it a whole lot more of a mac OS tempting especially with the theme that I've installed on this rocket dog that's pretty cool but i'm just going to reverse that because i live i pretty much leave it on on the top you can also put it on the left of the right if you so desire some leave my on the top edge offset is basically how far from the edge it is you can have it halfway down your screen you could have it right flush with the edge so I leave my flush and also centering i leave my muck dead in the center you can make it further to the left if you have the sidebar maybe or further to the right now let's go to style style I did a previous video on it so I'm not going to talk too much about it but basically you can install and download and get more by hitting this button a whole bunch of themes and also change the font and the opacity of the fonts when you mouse over one of those icons so that's pretty cool next is the behavior button this is pretty much the last the last important one if you actually click on an icon like in that goes 10 it'll bounce for a second so look if i click on camstudio actually now I can't do an ass off by hit okay and i click on camstudio it'll bounce for a second and you can see that that's the kind of attention that it gets when it won you out when you actually click on it so if I click on my computer it bounces once or twice then opens it up so that's pretty cool if I go back into settings I can actually disable that because again that just takes a tiny bit more CPU and I'd rather not the uber icon effects I have not found that to work very well but if I do try it let's see I do try it now it doesn't work it just it kind of makes it a little little explosion effect when you click on the icon it's not that great but so I just leave it at none and also you can set it to auto hide now here's the cool thing a lot of people do if I hit OK the docs just gone right but whenever I mouse over close to the top of the screen it comes back and I can choose whatever I want from here then when i leave it it hides back again so that's pretty cool feature if you really like a really clean desktop you may have noticed I have absolutely no icons on my whole desktop so that is uh that's why I use a rocket dock in first place so you can also choose how long it takes to pop up you can choose the delay how long it takes to pop up etc so I left unchecked auto-hide and that is basically you can reset the all the defaults at any time by just expressing that default button and also you can see this is version 1.3 point 5 copyright Punk software so you can update it just by hitting that one simple button if you have any problems with it you can hit the forums button and that is basically it so I hope you enjoyed this tutorial a little walkthrough of the menus and also there's this little thing where you can right-click I didn't show you yet you can hit the unlock items button so i can remove an icon and it will just disappear why would I drag it back in wherever I want to put it so that's a pretty interesting feature I like to show you guys um in mac on via the rocket dock and hopefully i can get back to you guys with more tutorials if you have any requests for any tutorial at all I will handle it as best as I can but i gotta do is subscribe and send me a personal message and I'll get to it as soon as I can thanks for watching guys peace