Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

Diamhair reviewed v0.8.3 Beta on Mar 9, 2005

Extremely small memory footprint. About 672k w/o being in use, but about 2.2kb with use. The setting qualities are all on high, and I have it pretty transparent. Great functionality. I highly reccomend this app, just Google around and you'll find a good link.

eL MaesTro reviewed v0.8.3 Beta on Apr 7, 2004

and just curious how does that the program 1star worth?

RedBadger reviewed v0.8.3 Beta on Dec 29, 2003

Well it gets a 1 from me now. Click on the link to his website and you will see he stopped working on it due to threats from Apple. How stupid! Here I thought maybe Apple was better than Microsoft, but obviously not. They are just as much a bully as Bill is.

IcarusFountain reviewed v0.8.3 Beta on Jul 8, 2003

First off, this is a great program. If I can't get a true Mac emulator for my PC, than this is as good as it gets. Now to all you Mac flamers out there, I'm a die-hard PC user. I haven't touched a Mac since the Apple //e I used in elementary school. I haven't looked at benchmark tests, so I don't know any "official" stats (since I don't trust the SPEC tests). All I know is that my P3 1.0 gHz computer doesn't run StarCraft as fast as my friend's G4 733 mHz. I don't care of Mac processors don't have the same gHz speed as Pentiums. The simple fact is, they perform better.

I'm still not giving up my PC, though.

kmansuri reviewed v0.8.3 Beta on Jun 24, 2003

This new version is so fast! This program has completely replaced my quick launch bar, and its the most useful piece of software on my PC. Great original concept by Apple. My only problem with Y'z Dock is the number of page faults that show up in my windows task manager. The program never has crashed for me, but it seems that there are page faults occuring every second the program is running. The only other program on my PC to do this is explorer.exe (lol). And after running Y'z dock for several hours, I had 10,000,000 page faults, and this is no joke. I dont know a thing about page faults, but I would sleep better at night if this bug were addressed :-) All in all, this is definately a five star program.

boarder8925 reviewed v0.8.3 Beta on Jun 13, 2003

Y'z Dock is very cool!

It's almost exactly like Apple's Dock!

I have a tiny bit of a problem with the magnification, but that's a problem with my system anyway.

5 stars--and 5 more that I couldn't add

emtp563 reviewed v0.8.3 Beta on Jun 5, 2003

I've never had a problem with downloading anything from DT2. I don't have a software firewall, but a hardware firewall. As for the daily releases, Mr. Yamaguchi is fixing bugs as they are reported to him. Thelast two daily releases were to fix a multi-monitor bug. Mr. Yamaguchi does not have a multi-monitor system himself, so he has to rely on others to report bugs. As for the program, it's the BEST dock out there, and keeps getting better with every revision. Now with the docklet SDK released, there has become available a weather docklet, a calender docklet (i-cal), a mail checker docklet, and an 8-ball docklet. You can get these from DT2 as well.

BrY BoY reviewed v0.8.3 Beta on Jun 5, 2003

What is up with daily releases??? They never released builds so quick before til now. Kind of annoying having to go thru the process of installing everyday!

ogre2112 reviewed v0.8.2 Beta on Jun 4, 2003

Great little program. I use it at work and everyone asks me what it is. You can make it look real nice.

Abyss21112 reviewed v0.8.2 Beta on Jun 3, 2003

Funny how it's always the very few that are the loudest. Paranoid, ranty? In 2 months 60gb of bandwidth, call us whatever you want but this place isn't stealing from us anymore. Instead of getting mad at us maybe you should aim that at Betanews. When you have to lay out the cash to support another site that steals from others then lets see how you feel. Then when you try to talk to Nate Mook and all he can reply is "then take it down" maybe your attitude will change. It costs enough to run a site without supporting others that use such dishonest and under handed tactics. They not only steal but they try to hide it behind a script. The ethics here are beyond comprehension and obviously beyond some of it’s users too.

cyberguy reviewed v0.8.2 Beta on Jun 3, 2003

Unfortunately the designtechnika.com site is so tightly closed up that I could not download no matter how hard I try with my firewall enabled - disabling it is not an option for me. If you use any type of firewall with this site, you are shunned. I'm sure the software is dandy, but I'll pass on it due to the host's paranoid policies.

infinitejones reviewed v0.8.2 Beta on Jun 3, 2003

Now this is a great little toy, but I found it INSANELY difficult to download it, or any of the docklets, skins or icons from the designtechnika.com site because of their rabid obsession with bandwidth theft. Don't get me wrong, they have a right to protect the bandwidth they pay for, but short of completely uninstalling Flashget (which I'm not going to do) everything method I tried resulted in their little ranty "stopthief" page appearing. Cutting off their nose to spite their face, maybe? Would have been five stars if I could have downloaded some skins...

DigitalSin reviewed v0.8.1 Beta on May 27, 2003

Very nice and seems pretty stable. Useful to boot!

brochaos reviewed v0.8.1 Beta on May 26, 2003

link is fine ;)

please don't steal. it's not nice. :)

this program rocks. design technika rocks.

Dokt reviewed v0.8.1 Beta on May 26, 2003

The link's dead ... lol ... that's what you get for running a crappy shareware site on the cheap.

Armlann reviewed v0.8.1 Beta on May 26, 2003

It is a great shame you had to steal bandwidth from Design Technika, your ethics in grabbing news and hotlinking from other website's personally paid hosting is horribly wrong. Stop this, theif!

Abyss21112 reviewed v0.8.1 Beta on May 25, 2003

ENOUGH ALREADY!!! Not only are you stealing our news without crediting us but you are stealing my bandwidth! You went through all 3 of my mirrors until you found the last mirror, the one I intentionally left unprotected and you hotlinked to it. Stop these underhanded tactics. You can't credit you news sources but you can leech their bandwidth, great ethics.

bobad reviewed v0.8.0 Beta on May 25, 2003

Hmmm...interesting possibilities. What if you wish to put say 40 items on it? It needs sub-menu tabs! :-)

S.i.T. reviewed v0.7.5 Beta on May 12, 2003

it`s so simple :) auspacken, Yz-Verknüpfung in Autoordner, drag & drop = fertig :)) Mac-Feeling pur, it´s Yz

allsiante reviewed v0.7.5 Beta on Apr 25, 2003

I wish it wouldn't be only a launcher, but it would contain a taskbar and the systray also ! It would really rock and become a fully featured and absolutely superior replacement for the whole win taskbar+quicklaunch+systray. I would _love_ to see this happen :))

And yes, 5* again, no less :)

gangstah reviewed v0.7.5 Beta on Apr 25, 2003

Nice prog! VERY easy to set up. Only complaint is MMC and Cooktop XML Editor icons wouldn't display.

Witchblade2002 reviewed v0.7 Beta on Apr 13, 2003

good job..now i can turn my win xp to mac ox X

DigitalXTC91 reviewed v0.6.0 Beta on Feb 13, 2003

Oh god another left winged Mac Lover. Hey if you want a toaster buy a mac otherwise if you want a real computer that you can upgrade, buy software, and actually do something with. Then buy a PC and stop strocking your little berry colourd excuse for a computer.

Abyss21112 reviewed v0.6.0 Beta on Feb 10, 2003

I see you removed both my posts. Anyway since you refuse to credit your sources - the site this news is from and the distribution and support site for all of Y'z applications is www.designtechnika.com

Somnambulator reviewed v0.6.0 Beta on Feb 10, 2003

HAHAHAHAHA
" Although Macs are tempting, and look very pretty, they are NOTup to par in the processor world."

they are the most efficient processors ever made. a dual 1.3 ghz G4 is classified by the United States Government as a supercomputer and is illegal to export... Tell me that isn't up to par. MAC's have the most powerful dektop computer in the history of desktop computers. i'll put it this way: if the platforms were the same, ie if MAC and PC were equal, could run the same apps etc, then a PowerMAC dual 1.3ghz G4 would be equivelant to an Intel P4 4ghz with hyperthreading. stop being ignorant and learn about something before you make wild assumptions.

xippon reviewed v0.6.0 Beta on Feb 10, 2003

I wonder why my previous comment disapear.. but what want to sey. This program is totally mistake,. earlier was ObjectDock. Compare this two, to find with is faster, don't cras ad so..

RedBadger reviewed v0.6.0 Beta on Feb 10, 2003

This is an excellent program. Although it would be better if it had some way to convert your normal icons to the .png format which this program uses.

Its also much better than that overpriced Stardock crap. I purchased their whole kit once but had to get a refund due to all the bugs it had. Y'Z Dock is completely FREE.

netw1z reviewed v0.5.2 Beta on Jan 13, 2003

This program works for me! it looks real cool!
I just wish it had more relevant icons to use,
fix the audio play when u roll over it
and maybe reduce the memory usage.

HolyLiaison reviewed v0.5.2 Beta on Jan 13, 2003

Good idea improvelence. Oh btw, I'm not a Mac fan boy. I preffer Linux over everything. Although Macs are tempting, and look very pretty, they are NOTup to par in the processor world. Once they switch over to their new IBM processors maybe I'll look in to them more. But for now this is the closest you get to Mac OSX's dock bar. I wish they had something like this for linux. ;)

improvelence reviewed v0.5.2 Beta on Jan 12, 2003

I have decided that i am goign to download and use this program for a few weeks to analyze every little bit of anything that i can get out of it.

Reap_r reviewed v0.5.2 Beta on Jan 12, 2003

I had some fun playing with this thing, but it did have some memory use and stability issues over the long term. I found some nice icons on the objectdoc/yzdoc sites in png format.
As to the exchange below...Amazing how critical of others work some can be, yet they don't possess the skill to program their way between the chair and the keyboard without screwing something up. You can pick out the losers right away when they find a public place to post their immature flames...

bbroussard reviewed v0.5.2 Beta on Jan 12, 2003

For those of you who don't like this program, look how much you are paying for it! Yes, it is a resource hog, yes it is, for the most part, useless, but it is well done for what it does. Use ThemeXP's Mac skin with this app and you have Mac OSX's Aqua interface. For those of us who switch back and forth between PC (for real work) and Mac (for illustration), this program is neat. For Windows-only users, it is useless.

veeoh reviewed v0.5.2 Beta on Jan 11, 2003

I like a lot - very well done for a beta.. :)

Bryanm reviewed v0.5.2 Beta on Jan 11, 2003

Just the type of menu program I like. Everything is configurable. It hides out of the way and seems to work fine for a beta.

xtool reviewed v0.5.1 Beta on Jan 9, 2003

Oh my!
This is getting better and better. I love the 'Docklet' plugins(clock/cpu/trash bin). Is this a Mac? :) I love it! Excellent updates.

improvelence reviewed v0.5.1 Beta on Jan 8, 2003

Dont rate tools im interested in? First of all im guessing you mean "not" interested in and if noone rated stuff that they were "not" interested in everything would have a good rating you uneducated fool. I downloaded this and here is why it sucks: A:) Memory Hog B:) Waste of valuble desktop space C:) Pops up in front of tv and some video apps...lame D:) Stops audio in winamp when you mouseover E:) Slows down startup time F:)You can pull the quicklaunch out of startmenu and tab it as a toolbar at the bottom if your pathetic self wants a mac that bad, without killing your memory. G:) Get a Mac, why do all these people want to clone macs on pc's, buy a freaking mac!!!!!!!!!!!!So next time your uneducated a$$ has something stupid like that to say, rethink your comment before you say something dumb like "dont post on things your not interested in"...Sounds like a perfect commie world where everyone likes everything, the object of this site is to point out the good and bad things of beta software, or else nothing will be done to change it.

BryGuy reviewed v0.5.1 Beta on Jan 8, 2003

I love this app! I've been using it for a bit now and can't get enough. Completly replaced my quick launch and desktop icons with a left sided Dock - very fast, convenient and looks cool too!

KayNine reviewed v0.5.1 Beta on Jan 8, 2003

Don't rate tools you're interested in, damn it!!! I rate it 5 stars though it lacks functionality compared to ObjectDock. But on my systems it runs more stable and smoother than OD. But it's only 0.5, OD is 0.85, sooo... let's wait and see, I'm pretty confident. +Kay

itsumo reviewed v0.4.2 Beta on Dec 2, 2002

mayakovski, the current trend of PC and Mac users has been leaning towards the more pretty, useless apps. The prettier and more useless, the better. All fluff.

mayakovski reviewed v0.4.2 Beta on Dec 1, 2002

Very Cute.
Works Well.

Completely Useless.
What's the point of it?
It's an answer to a question no one asked.

mikejd1 reviewed v0.4.2 Beta on Dec 1, 2002

now this program is starting to release builds very often, and object dock is starting to slow down. :(

caerma reviewed v0.4 Beta on Nov 27, 2002

It's easy to config and use, for me it's the best out there right now.

netean reviewed v0.4 Beta on Nov 27, 2002

everyone note: This ONLY runs on windows XP.
Does not run on win2000/ME/NT/98SE/98 or 95

xtool reviewed v0.4 Beta on Nov 27, 2002

Ok now it's working.

On this version, Mr. Yamaguchi did a wonderful job. It's getting better and better. Thank you.

emtp563 reviewed v0.3.1 Beta on Nov 16, 2002

I gave the .2 version of this program a 5 star rating. If I was able to, I'd give this version (.3.1) another star.

port8001 reviewed v0.2 Beta on Nov 14, 2002

I have the same problem when using winamp, the audio stops while i mouse over icons.

summoner reviewed v0.2 Beta on Nov 13, 2002

Brilliant program - it's a bit of a memory hogg (as much as 16MB) and the way it writes itself to the screen interferes with my DVBs TV Viewer (Highendtv from Hauppauge & MultiDec) but it does work OK with offline players such as PowerDVD/Media Player etc.

Another thing i like is how it displays the text next to the icons when one bring the mouse over it - it's very cusomizeable.

I have started making some icons for MS Office (look pretty boring so far) wonder if one could start a collection of "good" useable images for it on the website!?

BryGuy reviewed v0.2 Beta on Nov 13, 2002

This is a great little program! I'm completly hooked - my quick launch icons have now been completly replaced with it and I love it!

hdaalz reviewed v0.2 Beta on Nov 13, 2002

This program is sweet. Goes hand in hand with the MacOS x theme on www.themexp.org

If you have xp, give this a wirl.

emtp563 reviewed v0.2 Beta on Nov 13, 2002

This is one of the few programs you come across every now and then that are truly excellent. I was in Comp USA a while back and was playing with an I-Mac that was on display. I was fascinated with the OSX Dock and thought it was the coolest thing. I've tried DesktopX docks and Moby Dock. Y'z Dock is the best WindowsXP dock I have used to date, hands down. Per the release notes, it is going to be even better in future releases. No major bugs to report.