High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! DragThing is a popular shareware Dock replacement for Mac OS X, intended for organization and as an application switcher. DragThing allows for multiple docks with user-specified settings such as color, texture and shape. DragThing was first released on 1 May, 1995 by James Thomson and celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2005. It has been highly praised by the likes of Bruce Tognazzini, who said "...if I could have taken all the lessons learned in Systems 1 through 9 and applied them to System X, I certainly wouldn’t have ended up with the Dock. No, I would have ended up with DragThing..."