I'm giving 5 stars because this is still in beta, and it shows great potential! We need an application that allows us to turn off the dock. Why Apple doesn't provide the option is beyond me, but it's nice to see someone working on it. Hopefully the author will learn how to separate Expose from the Dock so that you can turn off the Dock (which is junk) without turning off Expose (which is great). Once this app gets to that stage, it will be a perfect companion to DragThing! Oh, it would also be nice if you can make the Finder recognize the desktop trash that DragThing allows so that it doesn't lay icons over the top of it (but that's probably a feature request more appropriate for DragThing).