Now you might be thinking what kind of name is RK Launcher, and quite frankly I thought about it too. And then I found out that RK is Radu King – the developer. So it’s like saying Bid OS or something like that. Now that the name is clarified, what exactly is RK Launcher?

RK Launcher technically an evolution of Yz Dock. Developement of Yz Dock was discontinued becuz the author was told (by Apple none the less) that the dock was becoming too much like the actual Mac OS X dock. Now no matter how much a stupid reason it was, not sane person wants to go for a legal battle against a big company all by himself. The links to Yz Dock downloads were unavailable for about two years. Till now there are forums that doesn’t let anyone post download links to it.

If Apple thought Yz Dock was getting really close to their’s, they would probably go bonkers when they see RK Launcher. Now this application makes me think that when it’s finally version 1.0, I might actually hide the Windows Start bar permanently. Few cool list of things include:

• dock item magnification
• minimizing applications to dock
• positioning options that you won’t see in Tiger
• customizing application icons
• bounce effect on application launch
• hiding the Windows Start bar
• etc. etc. etc.

Currently you can find version 0.3 beta on the official site, but Radu King also releases nightly builds in the AquaSoft forums. The nightlies (dubbed 0.4 alpha) are stable and actually much better than the 0.3 beta. So, yeah if you feel like it, give it a try. And you can get beautiful PNG icons to go with your applications at Weboso @ DeviantART. Enjoy.