{"id":3640,"date":"2011-07-22T13:10:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T17:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2019-02-26T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T21:10:06","slug":"dock-indicator-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/22\/dock-indicator-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Dock Indicator Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mulle-kybernetik.com\/weblog\/2011\/07\/why_i_dont_want_to_live_withou.html\">Nat!<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mulle-kybernetik.com\/weblog\/2011\/07\/why_i_dont_want_to_live_withou.html\"><p>Actually as it turns out, I am really using the indicator for the information &ldquo;is a window of that app open ?&rdquo; and I am doing this consistently. I have a pile of partially obscured windows layered on top of it other, where I basically know where what could be where approximately (spatial memory). As an example my Address Book is usually somewhere in the top left corner.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In practice, with an i7 and the maximum 8 GB of RAM, it does help for me to quit applications&mdash;and even reboot from time to time. Much of the memory hogging seems to be due to WebKit, though, so perhaps the new multi-process model in Lion will help. As far as auto-quitting and re-opening, it seems unlikely that Lion will have a better idea of which applications I would want quit than I do, and I worry that I will lose information or state, e.g. from Web pages that get reloaded.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nat!: Actually as it turns out, I am really using the indicator for the information &ldquo;is a window of that app open ?&rdquo; and I am doing this consistently. I have a pile of partially obscured windows layered on top of it other, where I basically know where what could be where approximately (spatial memory). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-02-26T21:10:08Z","apple_news_api_id":"1327a46a-8252-4de6-b32b-31ab7638b8f4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-02-26T21:10:10Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AEyekaoJSTeazKzGrdji49A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1777],"class_list":["post-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dock"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3641,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions\/3641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}