You know, its funny, now that you make me look at it, I realize i have 3 internet browsers, two text editing programs, Adium for chat, my calendar, eclipse for Java editing, and quicksilver and desktoplyrics which are constantly running. Then I have my beloved tasks, a great way to organize all of my diverse applications.
I have really found that in your dock, you only need your most used applications (In mine, I open up all of them daily(well only 1 web browser and one text editer)), and then the stacks let you acces some applications you use from time to time, like photoshop, imovie, iphoto etc... Even though iphoto might migrate to my main dock very soon.
Where do you keep your dock?? (like what side of the screen?)
I find the right side to be the best because the only thing it can get in the way of is the scrollbar, but I never use the scroll bar (two finger scrolling!!!).
The bottom is the more classic aproach, but it gets in the way of some buttons (think the bottom of itunes). And the right side gets in the way of the exit, minimize and maximize buttons.
Then again I am on a macbook so the screen is small, I could see my dock on the bottom with a 20-24 inch screen.

Cheers!!
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Me, myself and I

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My dock is always hidden. I can scroll to the left to find it. I like a simple desktop, and use Quicksilver to access all my files and apps. Quicksilver is the way to go!
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Finder
Overflow
Firefox
Safari
Tweetie
Dashboard
Spaces
FileMagnet
Skype
iChat
Mail
Address Book
iCal
iTunes
iMovie
Garageband
Pixelmator
RapidWeaver
The Hit List
Notebook
Bento
Pages
Numbers
Keynote
SafeCopy
Activity Monitor
Little Snapper
Applications
Documents
Downloads
Trash
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I have all the stock apps on there as well as Opera (browser), Photoshop CS3, After Effects CS3, Missing sync for blackberry, Word, excel, powerpoint, and enterprise.

Mainly things I need for school.



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http://img.skitch.com/20090619-t69hkmq32iefarq8wgxetpknyg.jpg

Some of the lesser known icons in there:
Lightroom
Coda
Skitch
Adium
vmWare
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here is my doc
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On my dock from left to right:
Finder - The Mac OS File browser

Mail - Built in Mail client, opening my Schoolmail, Gmail and Mobileme accounts.

iCal - Calendar synced with MobileMe so I have it on my iPhone on the go

Address book - Don't really have to explain, except that this is too synced with MobileMe

AdiumX - the 1.4 Beta, Adium is a Multiprotocol instant messaging app. I'm currently using MSN, Yahoo, Jabber and AIM.

Skype - VoIP calling

iTunes - 8.2, Has my complete Music Library and Album Artwork.
X-Chat Aqua - Not the Best IRC app around, but better then most. Also works great if you are an Operator in a channel.

Tweetie - Twitter client for on my Mac.

Quicktime - Movie playback, I also have the Perian plugin installed so I can play .avi files.

Documents Stack - All my Documents a click away

Downloads Stack - All my Downloads a click away

Trash - Trash Can, if for some mysterious reason I manage to throw away something that I want back.
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