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**The Author's Dock: A Tour of Their Digital Workspace**

As I look at my dock on Windows 7, I'm reminded that everyone has their own unique digital workspace. In this video, I'll be sharing what's currently open on my dock and why I use certain applications.

First up, we have iTunes. Yes, you read that right - everyone has iTunes, even if they don't actively use it. For me, it's just a convenient tool for occasionally doing some music-related tasks. However, my iPod hasn't been synced with iTunes in a while, so I only keep it open as a reminder to do so.

Speaking of music, I've recently found myself relying on Windows Media Player 11 instead of iTunes. I'm really happy with how it's working out - the interface is solid, and I appreciate the controls that allow me to manage my music without having to maximize the window. One minor glitch: every time I want to search for a song, it takes a few minutes to load all my music libraries.

Next up, we have Live Movie Maker, which I've been using for editing videos lately. Although I'm still getting used to its full features, I can confidently say that it's a great tool - especially after years of using the classic Windows Movie Maker. The beta version was available for a while, but I've since switched to the full release.

When it comes to image editing, I have to admit that I'm not even using Paint on my dock right now (although I do love it and have been using it since Windows 98). However, Paint is an incredibly handy tool that's perfect for quick coding tasks or creating simple images. It's just one of those things that's become second nature to me.

For recording screen shots, I use CamStudio, which has proven to be a reliable tool. Okay, maybe not totally glitch-free, but it gets the job done! And then there's XAMPP - this is where things get really interesting. With XAMPP, I can create mock websites and test my coding skills without having to worry about external dependencies. It's basically like having a mini-server right on my desk!

On a related note, I don't actually use uTorrent very often, but it's always nice to have around for the occasional download of Linux. There's just something reassuring about knowing that this handy tool is readily available.

When it comes to word processing, I'm a die-hard OpenOffice fan. It's free, reliable, and has become an essential part of my digital workflow. Okay, so maybe it takes a little longer to load than some other apps, but that's just part of the charm! Of course, WordPad does have its uses too - I'll often whip it out when I need something quick and simple.

Last but not least, we have Notepad - an old-school favorite for coding and basic tasks. It's not fancy by any means, but sometimes you just need a no-frills text editor that gets the job done.

And there you have it - my digital workspace tour!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys what is up it's duncan and today i'm going to be doing a bit of a different video i'm going to be doing a what's on my taskbar video um now i'm sure a lot of you guys seen lots of these for mac but seeing as the new windows test bar is basically like a dock i'm gonna go ahead and do one of my own so yeah let's just get this one started okay guys so let's just go ahead and move down here okay so obviously everybody has the start button well you know you have all your stuff okay so first thing i have is windows explorer basically this is where i can open up it just second load i can up my libraries which is something new windows 7 so i can find all my documents and all that kind of stuff uh kind of like the finder i guess in uh in uh oh and mac whatever next i have chrome google chrome which is my favorite browser uh i always use that i also have firefox installed i use it occasionally mostly just for testing websites and everything same with i have opera 10 i also have internet explorer but i do not keep it on my taskbar at all because internet explorer anyway um next i have tweetdeck i use this sometimes i usually just use it just do it in the browser just have like uh just the page open but this is kind of nice i can open it and just kind of like minimize it to half the screen or whatever it's kind of nice next we have itunes everybody has itunes you know you got to have i mean having i mean i only thing is though is that my ipod i haven't even had it installed uh it doesn't even sync with itunes anymore because it wants to redo it and i'm not bothering with it so really the only reason i have itunes on here is just occasionally do some stuff but surprisingly what i've been using lately for music is windows media player i believe it's 11 in windows 7. um i'm really i'm really liking it it's uh it's pretty solid i've got all my music kind of is a little glitchy it seems to want to search for every single for all your music every time which takes a few minutes but uh no big deal i actually like it and you can i mean you have the controls like if i'm listening to something i can controls without even having to maximize it it's really good i've never used really media player before so and next we have live movie maker um this is the new one that came out probably a week or two ago um i had been using the beta for a little while um that's basically what i use for all my editing uh i've always used movie maker and yeah i know it's totally dumb but i've always used movie maker and now that live movie maker is out i'm kind of starting to use that um i'm still not 100 it's actually a pretty good definitely very full-featured um i'm still learning on it's um you know it's pretty good from what i can see anyway paint uh you know i i like to use and everything which i actually don't have on here right now but i always like to use but paint i've always used paint i mean since i mean windows 98 i've always used paint so paint's just kind of a handy thing and it's actually pretty useful in windows 7. okay so we come over here and i'm using cam studio which is what i'm using to record my screen right now um definitely a pretty cool program you can see it's kind of messed up a little bit but yeah next this is a pretty cool program called xampp basically this is where i can use code and mock-up websites on my computer without actually having to do anything i won't go ahead and show it everything but it's definitely a pretty cool program where i can run everything i want just right on my computer and basically make it a full website which is cool next is utorrent um i don't like you aren't um i very rarely use this just torrents usually just mess up for me i don't know why i've i was messing with it this morning but just kind of keep it on my dock everyone smiles handy for an occasional download of linux of course you know next we have openoffice um i don't have word and i've always on almost all my computers i have open office running um openoffice i love it it's a little slow but definitely great i you know i really like it you know definitely it's free so it's cool next we have wordpad which i rarely use um it's kind of i i i use it occasionally it's it's better in windows seven it looks nice i'll use it to type something up real quick but uh usually i use open office for that it's actually i'm not really sure what's on here but lastly i have notepad notepad is just something really simple i used just for coding i know it's pretty old school but i just you know if i need to just open up something and code it real quick unless you can see that my magnifier which is what i'm running right now but that's actually not on my dock but anyway guys that was just a quick video uh just kind of i always see all these what's on your docks i'm like hey you know what i've got one to seven i can do that now anyway guys that's just about it uh yeah thanks for watchinghey guys what is up it's duncan and today i'm going to be doing a bit of a different video i'm going to be doing a what's on my taskbar video um now i'm sure a lot of you guys seen lots of these for mac but seeing as the new windows test bar is basically like a dock i'm gonna go ahead and do one of my own so yeah let's just get this one started okay guys so let's just go ahead and move down here okay so obviously everybody has the start button well you know you have all your stuff okay so first thing i have is windows explorer basically this is where i can open up it just second load i can up my libraries which is something new windows 7 so i can find all my documents and all that kind of stuff uh kind of like the finder i guess in uh in uh oh and mac whatever next i have chrome google chrome which is my favorite browser uh i always use that i also have firefox installed i use it occasionally mostly just for testing websites and everything same with i have opera 10 i also have internet explorer but i do not keep it on my taskbar at all because internet explorer anyway um next i have tweetdeck i use this sometimes i usually just use it just do it in the browser just have like uh just the page open but this is kind of nice i can open it and just kind of like minimize it to half the screen or whatever it's kind of nice next we have itunes everybody has itunes you know you got to have i mean having i mean i only thing is though is that my ipod i haven't even had it installed uh it doesn't even sync with itunes anymore because it wants to redo it and i'm not bothering with it so really the only reason i have itunes on here is just occasionally do some stuff but surprisingly what i've been using lately for music is windows media player i believe it's 11 in windows 7. um i'm really i'm really liking it it's uh it's pretty solid i've got all my music kind of is a little glitchy it seems to want to search for every single for all your music every time which takes a few minutes but uh no big deal i actually like it and you can i mean you have the controls like if i'm listening to something i can controls without even having to maximize it it's really good i've never used really media player before so and next we have live movie maker um this is the new one that came out probably a week or two ago um i had been using the beta for a little while um that's basically what i use for all my editing uh i've always used movie maker and yeah i know it's totally dumb but i've always used movie maker and now that live movie maker is out i'm kind of starting to use that um i'm still not 100 it's actually a pretty good definitely very full-featured um i'm still learning on it's um you know it's pretty good from what i can see anyway paint uh you know i i like to use and everything which i actually don't have on here right now but i always like to use but paint i've always used paint i mean since i mean windows 98 i've always used paint so paint's just kind of a handy thing and it's actually pretty useful in windows 7. okay so we come over here and i'm using cam studio which is what i'm using to record my screen right now um definitely a pretty cool program you can see it's kind of messed up a little bit but yeah next this is a pretty cool program called xampp basically this is where i can use code and mock-up websites on my computer without actually having to do anything i won't go ahead and show it everything but it's definitely a pretty cool program where i can run everything i want just right on my computer and basically make it a full website which is cool next is utorrent um i don't like you aren't um i very rarely use this just torrents usually just mess up for me i don't know why i've i was messing with it this morning but just kind of keep it on my dock everyone smiles handy for an occasional download of linux of course you know next we have openoffice um i don't have word and i've always on almost all my computers i have open office running um openoffice i love it it's a little slow but definitely great i you know i really like it you know definitely it's free so it's cool next we have wordpad which i rarely use um it's kind of i i i use it occasionally it's it's better in windows seven it looks nice i'll use it to type something up real quick but uh usually i use open office for that it's actually i'm not really sure what's on here but lastly i have notepad notepad is just something really simple i used just for coding i know it's pretty old school but i just you know if i need to just open up something and code it real quick unless you can see that my magnifier which is what i'm running right now but that's actually not on my dock but anyway guys that was just a quick video uh just kind of i always see all these what's on your docks i'm like hey you know what i've got one to seven i can do that now anyway guys that's just about it uh yeah thanks for watchinghey guys what is up it's duncan and today i'm going to be doing a bit of a different video i'm going to be doing a what's on my taskbar video um now i'm sure a lot of you guys seen lots of these for mac but seeing as the new windows test bar is basically like a dock i'm gonna go ahead and do one of my own so yeah let's just get this one started okay guys so let's just go ahead and move down here okay so obviously everybody has the start button well you know you have all your stuff okay so first thing i have is windows explorer basically this is where i can open up it just second load i can up my libraries which is something new windows 7 so i can find all my documents and all that kind of stuff uh kind of like the finder i guess in uh in uh oh and mac whatever next i have chrome google chrome which is my favorite browser uh i always use that i also have firefox installed i use it occasionally mostly just for testing websites and everything same with i have opera 10 i also have internet explorer but i do not keep it on my taskbar at all because internet explorer anyway um next i have tweetdeck i use this sometimes i usually just use it just do it in the browser just have like uh just the page open but this is kind of nice i can open it and just kind of like minimize it to half the screen or whatever it's kind of nice next we have itunes everybody has itunes you know you got to have i mean having i mean i only thing is though is that my ipod i haven't even had it installed uh it doesn't even sync with itunes anymore because it wants to redo it and i'm not bothering with it so really the only reason i have itunes on here is just occasionally do some stuff but surprisingly what i've been using lately for music is windows media player i believe it's 11 in windows 7. um i'm really i'm really liking it it's uh it's pretty solid i've got all my music kind of is a little glitchy it seems to want to search for every single for all your music every time which takes a few minutes but uh no big deal i actually like it and you can i mean you have the controls like if i'm listening to something i can controls without even having to maximize it it's really good i've never used really media player before so and next we have live movie maker um this is the new one that came out probably a week or two ago um i had been using the beta for a little while um that's basically what i use for all my editing uh i've always used movie maker and yeah i know it's totally dumb but i've always used movie maker and now that live movie maker is out i'm kind of starting to use that um i'm still not 100 it's actually a pretty good definitely very full-featured um i'm still learning on it's um you know it's pretty good from what i can see anyway paint uh you know i i like to use and everything which i actually don't have on here right now but i always like to use but paint i've always used paint i mean since i mean windows 98 i've always used paint so paint's just kind of a handy thing and it's actually pretty useful in windows 7. okay so we come over here and i'm using cam studio which is what i'm using to record my screen right now um definitely a pretty cool program you can see it's kind of messed up a little bit but yeah next this is a pretty cool program called xampp basically this is where i can use code and mock-up websites on my computer without actually having to do anything i won't go ahead and show it everything but it's definitely a pretty cool program where i can run everything i want just right on my computer and basically make it a full website which is cool next is utorrent um i don't like you aren't um i very rarely use this just torrents usually just mess up for me i don't know why i've i was messing with it this morning but just kind of keep it on my dock everyone smiles handy for an occasional download of linux of course you know next we have openoffice um i don't have word and i've always on almost all my computers i have open office running um openoffice i love it it's a little slow but definitely great i you know i really like it you know definitely it's free so it's cool next we have wordpad which i rarely use um it's kind of i i i use it occasionally it's it's better in windows seven it looks nice i'll use it to type something up real quick but uh usually i use open office for that it's actually i'm not really sure what's on here but lastly i have notepad notepad is just something really simple i used just for coding i know it's pretty old school but i just you know if i need to just open up something and code it real quick unless you can see that my magnifier which is what i'm running right now but that's actually not on my dock but anyway guys that was just a quick video uh just kind of i always see all these what's on your docks i'm like hey you know what i've got one to seven i can do that now anyway guys that's just about it uh yeah thanks for watching