Quay

Quay Publisher's Description:
Quay is a simple app that brings back the hierarchical menus to the Leopard Dock, but with several additional capabilities. You can sort items by name, data modified, date created, or file kind. Optionally, you can also show small or large icons next to each filename, see invisible files or browse into packages or bundles.

Quay items are on the right (or bottom) side of the Dock, just like you're used to. There are no apps running on the other side of the Dock; no extra distracting "running" lights. It uses the system's Dock, not a secondary palette or window.

Quay is a simple Cocoa application. You run it just to configure a popup item in the Dock. The Dock icons can be customized for better recognition. For the popups, it runs an on-demand background tool that uses very little CPU time and memory.

Quay does no magic. It doesn't hack the Dock in any way, and calls no private system interfaces.

This is a public beta. There is no trial period, but only the first Quay item in the Dock will work until you register - registration will be enabled in the final version. The tentative price will be �7 (about US$10).

WHAT'S NEW

Version 1.0b6:

* Contextual menu for the icon now allows extensive coloring, badging and customizing.
* Properly hides special folders like /Network.
* Aliases and symlinks are now followed in all cases.
* The Quay database in ~/Library/Application Support is now smaller and more aggressively cleaned.
* It's no longer possible to navigate into the Quay database by mistake.
* Command-clicking or double-clicking now shows the folder in the Finder.
* The main window now flips over to show the About/Help window.
* Several small bug and user interface fixes.
* Now features 8 custom Drawer badges, made especially for Quay by Yasushi Chida.