Existing users, 
A Mac OS X-style Dock for the iPhone debuts
Posted 30 August 2007 @ 2pm in Applications, News
Today a beautiful little present appeared in Installer.app (the best method for finding and installing native iPhone applications): a Dock for the iPhone. Dubbed, appropriately “Dock,” the modification swaps the bottom four icons on the iPhone’s “SpringBoard (the home screen) for an application launcher that can be slid back and forth to reveal a much deeper repetoire of applications. To install Dock, use our guide for Installer.app, then choose to install “Dock” from the “System” category. You might need to update Installer.app before it will appear.
Of course, other application launchers and organizers for the iPhone have been extant for some time, but none nearly as elegant as “Dock.” Now we just need at least five truly useful native iPhone applications…
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Posted by bergmayer
30 August 2007 @ 7pm
I’m not totally impressed… it doesn’t feel quite right, and I don’t like how it remains on the screen for slightly too long. Launcher is fine for now.
Posted by vaughnsc
31 August 2007 @ 7pm
Regrettably the author has seen fit to grace us with a complete redesign in 2.0 somewhat akin to Leopard’s fanning of bundles… unfortunately for right-handed pointers, one’s hand covers much of the new dock interface and it also is nigh near impossible to activate if you use a case on your phone.
Last but not least, I installed using installer, expecting an incremental update (now I cant go back to yesterdays version) and for a brief instant (more like a whole minute) I thought my screen was damaged (because I wasnt warned that the new Dock puts a bright ‘glow’ in the lower right corner of the screen)
I have asked the author at his site to continue offering the original version and yes, to quash the nagging ‘persistence’ it display… here’s hoping.