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Dock Locker

About

A simple utility to keep icons from being dragged out of the Macintosh dock. Whether on accident or (as in our case) students just love to watch the "poof" of disappearing icons, Dock Locker will keep your icons in place until the dock is unlocked. Optionally, it will also keep the dock from being resized or repositioned and can require a password when the app first opens.
Free:   There are no in-app purchases or advertisment banners.

Screen Shots

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System Requirements

Macintosh OSX 10.9 (Mavericks) or later.
See below for legacy 32-bit version

History

  • 0.9.7   October 2023 - Recompiled to support MacOS 14 (Sonoma) and to run natively on both 64 bit Intel and Apple processors.
  • 0.9.6   October 2019 - fixed a conflict with Gatekeeper which could cause Dock Locker to appear disabled when starting up the first time after being downloaded from the internet.
  • 0.9.5   September 2019 - removed an errant piece of old 32-bit code  (Livecode engine 9.5)
  • 0.9.4   August 2019 - compiled as 64-bit (Livecode engine 8.1.10)
  • 0.9.3   September 2009 - minor cosmetic change (runrev engine 3.5)
  • 0.9.2   June 2009 - minor cosmetic changes (runrev engine 2.9)
  • 0.9.1   February 2008 - added lightweight password protection and additional error checking.
  • 0.9.0   January 2008 -

  • Legacy Macintosh link:
    version 0.9.3    32 bit version for PPC & Intel

Testimonials

"I have just come across your application, Dock Locker Varsity, and it is just fantastic. I teach in a nursery school in Bradford, UK and we use managed account for the children with 'some limits' and a Simple Finder appearance. Until Dock Locker, in order to change the apps available to children in the Dock, we have had to lock and unlock the Dock through the Account preferences, logging in and out for the changes to take effect and putting in admin passwords repeatedly. Dock Locker will not only save us all time, but make it much, much easier for all staff to vary the apps available to children on a regular basis. Thanks for a really useful app."

-- Tony Woods

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