About a year ago, I wrote up a little how-to entitled "Ding Dong, the Dock is Dead," in which I showed several measures you could take to make OS X (then at version 10.1) look and act more like the "Classic" Mac OS 9. OS X certainly has evolved since then, and as I've gotten more comfortable with how things work, I've abandoned some of the little apps that made OS X a tad more Classic-esque. However, one holdover has been my continuing desire to kill the Dock completely in favor of the combination of DragThing's process menu and Keyboard Maestro's program switcher, but after the release of Jaguar, I haven't been able to permanently kill the Dock without things going all haywire. Until now.

Having tried the standalone version of Swift3D 1.0 back in the late summer of 2000, several problems immediately cropped up that led to me proclaiming the product not at all useful for my needs. As I was not writing product reviews at the time, that proclamation was pretty much heard only by myself. But now that I've gotten my hands on the LightWave plug-in version of Swift3D, now in its second iteration, I have the opportunity to explain just how nicely the Swift3D concept has evolved to an audience that probably, by now, could very well number in the double digits.