Quay for Mac

Name: Quay
Rating: 4.7 (15 reviews)
Author: Rainer Brockerhoff

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Key Details of Quay

Add hierarchical menus with various capabilities for your Dock.
Last updated on November 17, 2013
There have been 5 updates
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Developer’s Description

By Rainer Brockerhoff

Add hierarchical menus with various capabilities for your Dock.

Quay extends the Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), 10.7 (Lion), 10.8 (Mountain Lion) or 10.9 (Mavericks) Dock to show extended popup menus for most Dock items, including applications, stacks and URLs. Quay also allows you to make folder proxy icons with easily customized icons.Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) introduced "Stacks" in the Dock, with a unique grid display. Starting with 10.5.2, Stacks once again can show hierarchical menus for their contents.So why should you use Quay at all? Extra information, more flexibility. For one, the Dock's popups are limited to about 500 items; Quay's limit is in the tens of thousands. You can have a Quay popup on both sides of the Dock; Apple has them only on the document side. The Dock doesn't follow aliases/symbolic links in its menus; Quay does. It works for Smart Folders, also shows application versions and (for running applications) CPU and memory statistics. Still, if for some reason you want the Dock's normal display, just hold the Option key down before clicking.Finally, I'm more likely than Apple to, on short notice, implement features you request.Quay does no magic (but it does use complex technology superficially indistinguishable from that). It doesn't hack the Dock or the system. It uses no undocumented APIs, although it does depend closely on the Dock's implementation details.

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GENERAL

Release: October 19, 2013

Latest update: November 17, 2013

Version: 1.1.5

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Mac

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Mac OS X 10.6
Mac OS X
OS X 10.9
OS X 10.8
Mac OS X 10.7

Additional Requirements: None

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Total Downloads: 591

Downloads Last Week: 0

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4.7/5

15 User Votes

still cannot drag off of menus...
johnnyventoApril 4, 2008
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. i.e. if you want to put an application on the dock, forget it. You have to open the folder in the finder, then drag. Ugh. One thing that DID get fixed was the inappropriate length of time the subfolder lists stayed active... that crippled this application until now.
Mac OS X 10.5.2 has not made this little gem...
RayConMarch 3, 2008
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...obsolete This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. What it has done, as with other fine 3rd party applications that extend the functionality of our operating system of choice, is to provide additional options that make it easily worth the 7 euros or 10 dollars. On top of that, the developer works feverishly to provide continued refinements and unsurpassed support.
The good, the bad and the ugly
Simon ChapmanFebruary 8, 2008
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. New version seems to have fixed the broken link problem for me _but_ DiskWarrior flagged up a Quay error - the only file among 37,500 on my HD that it found fault with: "File: "Quay.rsrc" Detected that the resources overlap and cannot be repaired" And today, the developer's website seems to have disappeared, hopefully temporarily.
Great
WhiteDogDecember 17, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. Quay does a great job of removing the worst features of Stacks. I tried several other Leopard Dock modification utilities and, in my opinion, Quay does the best job for what I want. I don't need to colorize the Dock or flatten it like Tiger. All I need is decent folder icons and to open folders in the Finder. Quay also does hierarchical menus for those who need this functionality. Highly recommended. I paid for it right after trying it out.
Great!
poschel_dotmacDecember 1, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. This is really great. Simple, clean, and very effective. I also like that you can still have stacks in the dock, next to these "pseudo folders". So you can have it both ways. One question: Is it possible to eliminate even "step 2" ? Once you drag a folder to Quay's window, it's obvious that you want to put it in the dock ...
Desperately Needed Functionality Returns!
Cloetus_1November 30, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. Quay returns most of the functionality that Leopard removed from the Dock, namely having a hierarchical menu popup from a folder placed in the Dock. It also adds quite a bit more (which I haven't looked into, or needed yet). I had a substantial workflow around my set of frequently (but not constantly) used apps with aliases in a set of folders in a folder (web, dev, system, etc.). I had resigned myself to launching everything with Spotlight until I found Quay. It's AWESOME.
Thankyou so much!
Stuart ChapmanNovember 28, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. The worst thing about Leopard is the lack of hierarchical folder access from the Dock! Quay returns this feature and then some. As other people have stated, it would be great if the Quay dock items were spring loaded, but hopefully the developer will be able to address that issue in a future update. For now, it does exactly what is needed and Rainer should be thanked for fixing Apple's mistakes. I was happy to pay the Ã‚Â£5 registration fee. Thanks again! Stuart
So close...
parkerbennettNovember 28, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. I, too, tried the beta and was ready to buy the release version. Then I realized that I lost one behavior of stacks that is not replicated by Quay (or by replacing a folder with an alias of itself, which eliminates the stacks behavior): The folders aren't spring-loaded to open when I drag over them. If this were possible to implement in Quay, I'd gladly pay double!
Gotta Have It!
Steve FrawleyNovember 28, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. This little tool is great! I tried the betas and bought the release immediately.
Brilliant
Bob_Dr._Mac_LeVitusNovember 27, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com. in a word -- brilliant. It works exactly as promised and brings back the Dock feature I missed most in Leopard. Bravo, Rainer Brockerhoff. Nicely done!

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still cannot drag off of menus...

Mac OS X 10.5.2 has not made this little gem...

The good, the bad and the ugly

Great

Great!

Desperately Needed Functionality Returns!

Thankyou so much!

So close...

Gotta Have It!

Brilliant