DockExtras
The Mysteries of iCal, Revealed! (Via Jens Ayton.):
One of the minor yet shiny new features of Mac OS X 10.5 is that iCal’s dock icon now shows the correct date even when iCal is not running. Some assumed this to be hard-coded functionality in the dock, but a few brave souls – well, one, being me – decided to find out.
Very interesting. Jens shows how cause the dock to update it’s without the app running like iCal does in 10.5. The functionality probably isn’t completely safe to count on since it uses a private class, but it could be a cool add-on to some apps. I haven’t thought of a good use for it yet in either of my apps. Maybe we’ll come up with something cool.